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I lived in Hundleton when attending P.D. It was a wonderful couple of years until my parnets decided to move to England for work reasons. I visited Hundleton and P.D in July 2010. I could not understand why my parents moved. It was a great place and a great school. I attnded agricultural college in Devon with Tim Mason from Stackpoo. I joined Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and travelled arounfd England ending up in London. I left U.KI in 1992 and settled here. I still earn a living in livestock production assisting producers in intensive production systems. I hyave a small property and breed Welsh cobs. I get back to Wales most years in July for the Royal Welsh showe and to visit family.
I played in a rugby team captained by George Reyniolds. other names that spring to mind were Berese anhd Phillips from Angle, John Jones, John Gough, Vernon Blackmore, Bryan Griffiths. Girls I recall are Eira Brickle and Ray Gammon.
I will revisit the site email jcr750@gmail.com

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I WOULD LIKE TO GET IN TOUCH WITH ANY OF MY CLASSMATES THAT ATTENDED DURING 1965-1971 , I MOVED AWAY FROM PEMBROKE TO MANCHESTER IN 1979

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I have really enjoyed looking at the old long school photos. I found my father Tony Brabon, in the 1947 photo,it was lovely to see photos of him when he was a boy. I really enjoyed my time at the school and have nothing but fond memories

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I very much enjoyed the reunion on the 1st May. It was extremely well organised and impressively done. Many thanks to those who did so much work to achieve this. It was as if nothing had changed: Maxie Rickard was as irresponsible as ever; I had to encourage him to leave--I was passing the message on-- as his cousin and her husband--Priscilla and Barry Stubbs-were about to lock him out of the house. Maxie smiled and kept on eating-this was well after midnight--unconcerned. It's good to see people just as they were. I wonder, though, did he find a bed for the night...

Was dazzled by the clever organization that made this the success that it was. Thank you to everbody concerned!

I came away with the thought that for the handful of years that we were together in our respective classes, we probably spent more time together than with almost anybody else - about seven hours a day; five days a week! Thank goodness it was in this good school and not somewhere else!!

Feel bad that I haven't been about (I have been but mainly below the radar) for so long but time flies; still carrying on as an architect and finding the projects still come in and remain as absorbing as ever.

With the rash idea that anybody might have the slightest interest in what follows, after training at the Welsh School of Architecture in 1969, continued with a post-grad degree, subsequently turning my back on the ins and outs of Parker Morris and architects' design assumptions about the way people live, started a 21-year term with British Rail working through Southern Region projects like London Bridge Station, Gatwick, Charing Cross and suchlike as well as smaller schemes such as Crystal Palace, Esher, Southampton Parkway and so on and also the endless renovations; then after time with further projects with Network Southeast, including Stansted, Canon Street, St Paul's-Ludgate, became the Architect for European Passenger Services preparing the concept designs for Eurostar at Waterloo, Ashford, North Pole depot and places (never to be constructed) "beyond London".

Once the Chunnel was completed, I gravitated to being a regional architect for BR's Wales and the West of England, even masterminding the bits at Pembroke station! All that was left behind as my wife, Frances (same name as my sister), and I set up or own practice in 1994 and we are still doing our thing off the railway now and mainly on good Listed buildings projects based with an office in Godalming and projects in the home counties and further afield (not in Wales, though), including even landscape projects in the US.

In the belief that architects don't retire but just get old and die, I have so far convinced Frances that the work we do is actually worth doing (as well as paying for chocolate biscuits) and so we carry on, spending a good deal of time, too, going up and down the M4 to get away from things and then walking the dog at Freshwater West etc!


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Too bad nobody achieved getting the new power station to finance burying the cables strung up on the grotesque array of pylons between Sageston and Hundleton! Oh, well...

We would like to thank the Penvro team for a most enjoyable Reunion on 1st May. It far exceeded our expectations and the attendance numbers showed the deep respect we have for our alma mater. We now live in a world far removed from the values that Pembroke Dock Grammar School instilled in us, thanks in many ways to the quality of the teaching staff. Once again, our sincere thanks to you all.

Yours sincerely, Raymond Dony and Ruth Buckle (nee Dony)

Just a little note to express our sincere thanks to all the organizers of the Reunion on Saturday night (1st May). We had such an enjoyable evening, including the very nice food, and was so pleased to meet so many people, and of course singing "Green Grow the Rushes" was a wonderful finale and brought back lovely memories. Thank you once again. Gwen Smith and David Yates

Elwyn and Vernice Hughes wish to say a heartfelt thankyou for all the wonderful organisation and hard work which went into making a most memorable and happy evening for so many people. No details were missed out. It is 60 years since I last sang Green Grow The Rushes O, and it immediately conjured up the memory of us all singing our hearts out while parents and family left the school hall after Prize Days.

We are all privileged to have been educated in such an environment and at a time when each town in Pembrokeshire boasted its own Grammar school. Your forethought and energy made it possible for us to meet up and talk ourselves hoarse, as if we had only parted yesterday.

Thankyou again and we are proud and delighted to be in touch with the New Penvro Association. We can be contacted at:
e t s . h u g h e s @ b t i n t e r n e t . c o m (Remove all the blank spaces between the characters to use our email address.

Best wishes Elwyn & Vernice Hughes (Evans)