| | Will and Ada went via Glais to Pembroke Dock,Will worked in the Dockyard, Colin went to Coronation School which is about to be demolished, they opened a Garage Taxi business and generated electricity with an oil engine and sold it 39, Main Street a 6 bed Georgian house with a tannery partly inside and outside the town walls linked by an industrial lift which was still in place when I was a child. The tannery was dug out and the waste from the tan pits and other chemicals were buried at the east end of the Commons now landscaped 06 with an open stream allowing the chemicals to leach out. Tanyard used to house the hire cars, later in the sixties converted into an award winning Museum of Gypsy Life by Alastair son of Ronald. He had to sell it as a divorce settlement, the premises are now the Tanyard Youth Project.There are barrel vault medieval cellars.
Ian and Heather attended East End School (about to be demolished).We were in Coventry when it was blitzed, no doors windows water gas or electricity, so next morning we packed the car and drove to Pembroke, a twelve to fourteen hour journey then.We lived at 39 main Street with Pa Gran Uncle Tom Ron and Nancy. Colin stayed in Coventry and drove down to
Pembroke when he could.We were there when the oill tanks at Pembroke Dock were bombed and set on fire. (more to follow).
We stayed with Iris and Arthur Clague at Lawrenny,we had relations of my mother in Tenby and Pembroke Dock
Like Thalia my early life was surrounded by women with men and father absent. Ian
Ian has always told me his Campbells were on the Protestant side in the wars /splits etc and it was why they left Scotland but its only family legend
Ian's mum was Christian Scientist which was equally cruel if you did not belive in her religion all the bad things which happened to you were your own fault Thalia
We just went for a walk on top of the hill south of Pembroke by St Daniels church and visited Ian's uncle Rons grave (And wife) it has a motto on it:
"ne obliviscaris " do not forget
We have a photo of the grave inside the motto is a boars head within a circular belt. I do remember when the children were small we visited Invarary Castle and there was a portrait on the grand stairs which looked so like Ian's sister Lorna... Thalia Aug 2008
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The new Coronation school was completed in 1904 on the site of the old British School. Mrs Peters describes the opening festivities: "the children of the various schools, wearing distinctive ribbons, assembled in Albion Square, from whence, accompanied by teachers and headed by the temperance band, they marched in procession to Meyrick Street, where they were presented with round tins of chocolate which bore a portrait of the King".
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