During the Victorian era Pembroke Dock was used as a major operating base for the Royal Navy and accordingly the Government invested heavily in buildings at the base including a magnificent Dockyard Chapel. In recent years the chapel has secured...

Pembroke Dock in South Wales is today famed as a ferry port and oil refinery but during the Second World War it was a vitally important base for flying boats and the Flying Boat Centre was established to tell the...

During the Napoleonic era the Royal Navy founded a great naval dockyard in the small Welsh town of Pembroke Dock. To defend Pembroke Naval Dockyard the Royal Navy built two Martello Towers, each armed with cannons. One of these is...

This studio and art gallery gives visitors a unique chance to see some of the artists at work, creating brilliant pieces that usually you wouldn’t get a glimpse of until the final stroke had been added. There is a...

The Guntower Museum was built in 1851 to defend the massive Royal Navy Dockyard at Pembroke Dock from the feared invasion by Napoleon. Unfortunately all such Martello Towers became follies as they were never used in battle. Today the Guntower...

Pembroke Dock in South Wales was once a Royal Navy Dockyard and it is therefore unsurprising that a great many men from the town lost their lives in the two World Wars. The Memorial Park was created to honour these...

One of the largest castles in Wales, Pembroke Castle was built in 1189 for the powerful English baron William Marshall. Noted for its massive round keep, it occupies a superb defensive position above the river. The castle was the birthplace...

The town of Pembroke in South Wales has a number of sporting associations within its boundaries and one of these is the Pembroke Dock Bowling Club. The club was founded upon the opening of the Memorial Park in which it...

The Welsh town of Pembroke Dock is probably well known to thousands of travelers heading to and from Ireland on the ferries, but the town has more to offer visitors and locals alike. Pembroke Dock Library is centrally located in...

St Andrew’s Presbytrian Church, in the Welsh town of Pembroke Dock, has a large and imposing edifice that dominates the local buildings. The church was constructed in the early 19th Century to offer an alternative place of worship to those...

St John the Evangelist Church in the Welsh town of Pembroke Dock is located roughly halfway up a slight hill and overlooks the wide river estuary and the dockyards below. The church was built during the Victorian era and comprises...