Digital Ark: St. Florence, Wales: Events original

This will always be Work in Progess    Last Update: 2026-09-07

An ad hoc collection of things.


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Source: No idea where I found it online, nor when the photograph was taken

The hunt, outside the north gate of the church

You can see the church in the background.



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Guy Fawkes Night

3 locations: common by the Ritec, field opposite the Manse, open area in front of Haggar's, storing paper in old cottages next to the Manse

Personal memory: Marie Wallace(nee Salisbury)

Glorious Bonfire nights on the then waste ground opposite our big black wooden back gate, where everyone would nail their Catherine wheels



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Coronation Tea

Elm Grove
Major Richard Charles Edward Barclay, of Elm Grove, St. Florence, Pembrokeshire.
Ian was born in Manorbier in 1928 where his parents Major Charles and Nesta Barclay lived before moving to St. Florence where they brought up their young family at Elm Grove. Ian had a sister, Anne Jewson, who died in 2013.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barclay-4296



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Gymkana

by Minerton Cross, M.E. Lewis air-guns



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Whist drive

Personal memory: George Salisbury

Christmas, mum & dad, winning turkeys and whiskey bottle, once a turkey too big for the oven (even without its legs) got it cooked up at Elm Grove



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Harvest Thanksgiving

Chursh service, then auction at school!