Watching this reminds me of playing in the fields there as a kid - I will never forget playing in the fields with my friend Sarah and a man was hiding in the long grass and leapt out at us. We were absolutely petrified and ran back to Masefield Drive where Sarah’s mother marched straight out armed with kitchen utensils and shouted like I’ve never heard before. I will never forget that. Great memories of Priory Avenue, Poets Corner - we used to live next door to your sister and G in Shakespeare (my Dad was a Serg)
Arrived in Haverfordwest in 1976 to install the passenger lift in the telephone exchange in Perrots Ave. I was recommended the Carmarthen Arms as a decent place to get some grub at lunchtime. I became friendly with the landlord at the time, a chap named Les Fynn. It became my watering hole for the duration of the contract and i met some great locals who were very accomodating. Ashley Owston who lived a few doors from the pub on Cartlett. I moved on travelling the country with my work until Les rang me at home in Manchester and persuaded me to relocate to Harford and help him run the pub .I had a great time in the following 18 months before moving to the Masons Arms for a short time. Many happy memories of the Arms working with Les and Tony.
Thank you for sharing , my Dad was from Haverfordwest and is now actually buried back there in St Martins church at the top of City Road, he is buried with his real mum who passed when my dad was only 18 mths old, his Dad my Grandfather remarried and lived in the house that had been his mothers and the house he grew up in, 40 Prendergast , I am actually in Martletwy at the moment as I come back to visit this area often as I have so many happy memories of holidays with my grandparents, I remember my granddads garden looking over Bridge meadow, now it’s Morrisons car park, I am sad to see so many empty shops in this beautiful town
Thank you for that walk around and sharing some of your personal history. Such a shame what's happened to the town center, during the 80's and 90's there were seas of people all doing their shopping and meeting up. It was a thriving town.
Born and bred in Pembroke Dock and spent two great years 82-84 at college in Barn Street.Lots of great memories.The Kings Arms on Dew Street,The Friars in town,The old library (and the chip shop opposite, can't remember the name), Woolworths on castle square,the girls from Taskers school 😂 Swales music shop,Ocky Whites (had a girlfriend who worked there) ,the Masonic hall,the Quay street snooker hall (as shown on you video) I live in Germany these days but get back to Pembrokeshire every now and then
I had a many of pint at the Carmarthen Arms. lol Many many. It was a great place! I must have run into you at some point. We were there working at NavFac Brawdy.
Great video and great to see the old pictures as well! Did you know any of the Jones’s from Dew Street? My great grandfather David William Howard Jones was a saddler and later a postman in Haverfordwest from Dew Street. He was a freeman of the town as well.
I just came across this! That's Cal and Mino getting married!! And the other girls getting married and there's Gelly! I'm very close friends with your neice! Amazing what you find on UA-cam!!
Thank you so much for the fantastic walk around. I really enjoyed this and really appreciate the effort you have put into this vlog. I'm looking forward to have few more like this. Very nicely done xx Thank you much appreciated. My Great grandmother used to live on winch lane . Granny Orchard
Hi again Martin, great work again. You stir some souls with this just like your other videos. Sorry you were laughing too loudly in the County Hotel. Wanting to do similar here for a walk around Lower Solva. Need your help, delivery and expertise!! Hope all well.
i to was also was born in Haverfordwest in the70's and went to the mary immaculate school and then sir thomas picton school . I used to live in priory avenue and i could see the playing field from my bedroom window , sometimes the RAF wessex helicopter would land and transfer casualties to the county hospital as withybush wasn't around at the time . During my teenage years i would work alderwicks soft drinks at priory mill in the clay lanes
It seems to me that to cure this ghost town, turn the new council buildings into a University of Art, with a monthly preforming drama production for the public. This fantastic town could be resuscitated back to life with some new young blood. If nothing is done it will look more like Chernobyl a town that been evacuated and abandoned because of health reasons, like boredom.
Watching this reminds me of playing in the fields there as a kid - I will never forget playing in the fields with my friend Sarah and a man was hiding in the long grass and leapt out at us. We were absolutely petrified and ran back to Masefield Drive where Sarah’s mother marched straight out armed with kitchen utensils and shouted like I’ve never heard before. I will never forget that. Great memories of Priory Avenue, Poets Corner - we used to live next door to your sister and G in Shakespeare (my Dad was a Serg)
Arrived in Haverfordwest in 1976 to install the passenger lift in the telephone exchange in Perrots Ave. I was recommended the Carmarthen Arms as a decent place to get some grub at lunchtime. I became friendly with the landlord at the time, a chap named Les Fynn. It became my watering hole for the duration of the contract and i met some great locals who were very accomodating. Ashley Owston who lived a few doors from the pub on Cartlett. I moved on travelling the country with my work until Les rang me at home in Manchester and persuaded me to relocate to Harford and help him run the pub .I had a great time in the following 18 months before moving to the Masons Arms for a short time. Many happy memories of the Arms working with Les and Tony.
Thank you for sharing , my Dad was from Haverfordwest and is now actually buried back there in St Martins church at the top of City Road, he is buried with his real mum who passed when my dad was only 18 mths old, his Dad my Grandfather remarried and lived in the house that had been his mothers and the house he grew up in, 40 Prendergast , I am actually in Martletwy at the moment as I come back to visit this area often as I have so many happy memories of holidays with my grandparents, I remember my granddads garden looking over Bridge meadow, now it’s Morrisons car park, I am sad to see so many empty shops in this beautiful town
Thank you for that walk around and sharing some of your personal history. Such a shame what's happened to the town center, during the 80's and 90's there were seas of people all doing their shopping and meeting up. It was a thriving town.
Born and bred in Pembroke Dock and spent two great years 82-84 at college in Barn Street.Lots of great memories.The Kings Arms on Dew Street,The Friars in town,The old library (and the chip shop opposite, can't remember the name), Woolworths on castle square,the girls from Taskers school 😂 Swales music shop,Ocky Whites (had a girlfriend who worked there) ,the Masonic hall,the Quay street snooker hall (as shown on you video) I live in Germany these days but get back to Pembrokeshire every now and then
Thank you for sharing your memories, sounds like you had a great childhood. A lovely area of the country.
I had a many of pint at the Carmarthen Arms. lol Many many. It was a great place! I must have run into you at some point. We were there working at NavFac Brawdy.
Great video and great to see the old pictures as well! Did you know any of the Jones’s from Dew Street? My great grandfather David William Howard Jones was a saddler and later a postman in Haverfordwest from Dew Street. He was a freeman of the town as well.
I just came across this! That's Cal and Mino getting married!! And the other girls getting married and there's Gelly! I'm very close friends with your neice! Amazing what you find on UA-cam!!
Great video of my birth home town (only 5 years earlier than yourself). Fond memories of my childhood.
Thank you so much for the fantastic walk around. I really enjoyed this and really appreciate the effort you have put into this vlog.
I'm looking forward to have few more like this.
Very nicely done xx
Thank you much appreciated.
My Great grandmother used to live on winch lane . Granny Orchard
Thank you for the comments. Granny Orchard lived next door to us. It’s a small world.
Great video, thanks for sharing. Glad you like the skatepark, I use it often, great fun.
Nice video. Diane knows some of the people in it!
Hi again Martin, great work again. You stir some souls with this just like your other videos. Sorry you were laughing too loudly in the County Hotel. Wanting to do similar here for a walk around Lower Solva. Need your help, delivery and expertise!! Hope all well.
i to was also was born in Haverfordwest in the70's and went to the mary immaculate school and then sir thomas picton school . I used to live in priory avenue and i could see the playing field from my bedroom window , sometimes the RAF wessex helicopter would land and transfer casualties to the county hospital as withybush wasn't around at the time . During my teenage years i would work alderwicks soft drinks at priory mill in the clay lanes
My oldest daughter was born in the same hospital that you were. :) Cheers. Thanks for this video.
This is the second video I have watched about Haverfordwest, where are all the people ? It doesn't only look like a ghost town, it is one.
do you remember a hotel by the name of scotchwell hotel?. i can't seem to find anything about it
i used to party there in the 70's
It seems to me that to cure this ghost town, turn the new council buildings into a University of Art, with a monthly preforming drama production for the public. This fantastic town could be resuscitated back to life with some new young blood. If nothing is done it will look more like Chernobyl a town that been evacuated and abandoned because of health reasons, like boredom.