Author name: John Roobol

Friday February 16th 2024 was a happy Pembrokeshire day that will be remembered in our family.  After some weeks of winter’s grey weather with  gales and rainfall that Friday proved to be mild and sunny with a blue sky.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 to 1859) was one of the 19th century engineering giants who played a major role in

In the 1980’s well-known Pembrokeshire metal detectorist Roy J. Lewis of Haverfordwest found a small gold nugget while detecting on

The sea water around the shores of Pembrokeshire is brought by the Gulf Stream or North Atlantic Drift.

A favourite place near Sandy Haven that I like to visit on a hot sunny afternoon is the Priory Inn in Lower Priory on the outskirts of Milford Haven

This is the story of Mrs Grace Scurlock (nee Beer) who was raised at Sandy Haven as one of the Beer Family of Rock House – the house with the stone quay alongside.

       There were two weeks in July 2021 when the weather was extremely hot with blue skies and sunshine every

The Normans invaded from Normandy. They were European descendants of Vikings or Northmen – Normanni in Latin. Their Dutchy was

15th February 1996 is an infamous day in Pembrokeshire and one still remembered with deep sadness. It was the day the

Today the hamlet of Sandy Haven, with its 6 houses, is a sleepy quiet hollow on the tidal creek, best

After The Anchorage was built, the garden in front of the house proved very wet and muddy with a thick

Pembrokeshire, with its three peninsulas (St. David’s, Dale and Castlemartin) jutting out into the Irish Sea, is at the receiving

It took a long time to solve the puzzle of the aluminium wreckage recovered over a number of years of

In the winter of 2013-14 there was a great gale in Pembrokeshire with very strong winds from the west. A

My name is Joop and I am a retired geologist living in Haarlem, Netherlands. On the occasion of my 69th

When the balmy days of summer arrive in Pembrokeshire, the world is a warm friendly place and winter gales and

The Anchorage site when purchased was full of rock and it took several summers of activity to get it all

As a teenager in Milford Haven, my old grannie Newman worried about my roaming about looking at rocks in strange

One summer when our oldest son Peter was 12 years old, we took one of his school friends (Matthew) with

During a lifetime of summer holidays in Pembrokeshire, mainly spent on the beaches with a family that grew to include

In 1982 I bought a plot of land at Sandy Haven and started work on a house and gardens (now

When our children were young, August spent in Pembrokeshire was very sunny and the winds blew from the south west.

One very hot sunny summers day on our annual Pembrokeshire holiday when our first child was about 8 years old,

One summer when our fourth child was still a baby we spent the day on Musselwick sands beyond Marloes village.

Its nice to visit Pembrokeshire at different seasons to see the changes. One time when we had three young children

It was one of those rare summer days in Wales when everything is perfect. Overhead the blue sky had some

It was another summer holiday in Pembrokeshire and our family had now grown to four children. Lindsway Bay by the

The soils and rocks of the Sandy Haven area are a distinct pink/red colour. These rocks are called the Old