Burry Port
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Map of Dyfed
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Family connections.
The man standing on the bottom left hand side with the white T-shirt and quiff is my grandad! He is now seventy. The car next to him was his first car and his pride and joy!
Contributed by M Paull
Dyfed memories
Family connections.
The man standing on the bottom left hand side with the white T-shirt and quiff is my grandad! He is now seventy. The car next to him was his first car and his pride and joy!
A memory of Burry Port contributed by M Paull
london evacuation
my mother who is now 76 years of age,was talking with my son who is doing a world war 2 project at school.Only last night she was telling him,that in 1939 october,she aged 8 and a half and her then baby brother aged just 10 months along with their mother were evecuated to stradey castle from vauxhall,sw london.
They stayed for 10 weeks,and my mother said how the statues in the long hall scared the life out of them and also the nearby woods was something she had never seen before.My mothers maiden name was joan trim and her brother roy and late mother florence.The owners were by the name of lewis a laird i believe,by all accounts very nice people.I ...read more here
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A view from the band stand
I was born in 1965, the year the photo was taken and at the time my dad was a gardener at Parc Howard. I remember going to visit him almost every day, in the summer months, with either my grandmother or mother. This was a very familiar view taken from the band stand.
After what felt like hours of playing I would be taken to the cafe and bought sweets from a large select behind a glass cabinet.
Often we would go up the hill (to the left in the photo) to watch the old men play bowls and as I grew older I would play on the putting green.
A memory of Llanelli contributed by David Charles
Extracts From Burry Port & Dyfed books
The mother and child appear to have been dressed and posed especially for the photograph. In late Victorian and early
Edwardian times, this part of the village was regarded as a select residential area. The turning to the right off St Bride’s Hill
leads down to the Glen. The fields have now been more fully developed with residential property.
An extract from from"Tenby and Saundersfoot Photographic Memories".
In the distance are the ruins of a once great mansion, Scotsborough, dating back to the 14th century. It passed through
a variety of hands and was last occupied in 1824, when it was converted to tenements. An epidemic of smallpox broke
out amongst the inhabitants, and the survivors then fled the house. Despite their decay, the ruins still display some fine
architectural details.
An extract from from"Tenby and Saundersfoot Photographic Memories".
The first reference to a slipway on Priory Bay was in
1897. In 1958, owing to increases in the amount of
farm produce being transported from Caldey, steps
were taken to improve the landing facility for boats.
Redundant barges, relics from the D-Day landings,
were filled with concrete and sunk to extend the
slipway. Landing alongside, a boat from Tenby is
collecting waiting day visitors to the island.
An extract from from"Tenby and Saundersfoot Photographic Memories".
This postcard, probably
used for advertising
purposes, shows views of
and from St Bride’s Hotel,
with its commanding
position over Carmarthen
Bay. At this time the hotel
offered numerous facilities,
including 50 bedrooms,
bedside lights in all rooms,
electric fires in first-floor
rooms, a tennis court, a
putting green, television, a
ladies’ hairdressing saloon
and a private path to the
beach, which is no longer
available today.
An extract from from"Tenby and Saundersfoot Photographic Memories".
The old smoke house (foreground) was built in 1848 in a romantic style to resemble an
ancient castle, complete with mock stone cannons which aided the drainage from the
private garden above. Inside, two great arches culminate in chimneys which project into
the garden. However, there is no blackening of the ceiling, and indeed at the time of its
completion local fishing was in decline.
An extract from from"Tenby and Saundersfoot Photographic Memories".