Generations of pupils of one of Pembrokeshire's best remembered educational institutions - The Coronation School, Pembroke Dock - can take a nostalgic trip down memory lane thanks to a new photographic exhibition.
The Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre - in the former Royal Dockyard Chapel - has an extensive archive which includes many photographs of Coronation School activities.
Volunteers from the Archive Team at the Heritage Centre are digitalising several albums of photographs of sport teams, events and of plays and revues, spanning the decades from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Many of the photographs, and the albums they are from, will be on view at the Heritage Centre which up to Easter is open Mondays to Fridays, 10 am to 4 pm. The Centre will be open seven days a week from Easter.
Although names of some of the faces are noted, there are many missing and visitors to the Heritage Centre will be invited to fill in the gaps.
• Known to generations of pupils as 'The Coro', the school first opened in 1904 in Upper Meyrick Street. In the 1940s it became a secondary modern school and in 1955, when the Grammar School in Argyle Street transferred to new premises at Bush, the Coronation expanded into Argyle Street, operating both Upper and Lower Schools.
'The Coronation School' name disappeared in 1973 when Pembroke Comprehensive School was established on the Bush site.
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