Haverfordwest, High Street c.1950
Photo ref: H41017
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Photo ref: H41017
Photo of Haverfordwest, High Street c.1950

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The Castle Hotel is to the right of this picture. Note the shop frontage for Stephen and Fred Green on the left (now a chartered accountants). The policeman is paying no attention to the driverless Ford Prefect in the middle of the road to his left (perhaps it belongs to him or his uniformed companion). The sign on the lamp post indicates that the Post Office can be found in Quay Street, to where it was moved from the corner of High Street and Dark Street in 1936. The RAC sign on the Castle Hotel has now been removed - the hotel is currently with the AA! The building to the left of the picture is the home of the Crown and Magistrates' Courts.

Memories of Haverfordwest, High Street c1950

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This photograph shows my father's car reg EDE 3 at the traffic lights in Castle Square. He was William Gywther Thomas, Divisional Highways Surveyor. The reason the car looks as if it has been abandoned was that the traffic lights had failed and father was investigating the reason at the control box on the corner of the street to the left of the photograph out of shot. The police are there to direct the ...see more