1789
|
The French Revolution. More than twenty years of war
between Britain & France follow. |
The Royal Navy needs new dockyards to
build warships. The Paterchurch area offers a suitable site. |
| 1814 |
|
First houses, public house & dockyard
development. |
1815
|
Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon I
finally defeated. |
|
1816
|
|
Pembroke Dockyard's first ships launched -
HMS Valorous, HMS Ariadne, both 28 guns. Naval shipbuilding continues until
1926. |
| 1818 |
|
Bethany chapel - many other
places of worship follow. |
| 1826-1827 |
|
Market opens, with river
landing for traders at Front Street "hard". |
1830-
1832
|
|
Hobbs' Point pier built
as landing stage for Irish packet boats. Mail coaches arrive here (1830s-40s).
Later, Hobbs' Point is used for river ferry boats & for
installing heavy equipment in Dockyard-built vessels. |
1832
|
The Great Reform Bill entitles more people
to vote. Later bills continue this process - particularly the 2nd Reform Act
of 1867. |
|
| 1833 |
|
HMS Royal William completed, 120 guns. Pembroke Dockyard's
first 100+ gun ship.
|
| 1834 |
|
HMS Tartarus completed, Pembroke Dockyard's first steam
warship. |
| 1835 |
|
Shortly after, Pembroke Borough is split
into Pembroke & "Pater" wards. Pembroke Dock is allocated its own
borough
councillors. |
| 1837-1901 |
Reign of Queen Victoria. |
Pembroke Dock grows. "Victoria Road" and "VR"
initials above gun tower & Defensible Barracks entrances mark the Victorian
age. Queen Victoria's Royal Yachts are built at Pembroke Dockyard. |
| 1840s |
|
British & National Schools open. |
| 1843 |
|
RY Victoria and Albert I
launched, Pembroke Dock's first Royal Yacht |
| 1845-6 |
|
The Temperance Hall, a non-alcoholic
meeting place. |
| c.
1844 |
|
Defensible Barracks, housing troops & protecting Dockyard. |
| 1848 |
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St John's Church consecrated. |
| 1848-1851 |
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Front St & Fort Rd gun
towers, for close quarter defence of Dockyard . |
1851
|
The Great Exhibition in London displays
the fruits of British commerce & industry. |
|
1850s
|
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Mechanics' Institute offers library and
reading rooms. The Institute building, opened in 1862, later included a fine
billiards hall. |
| 1852 |
|
HMS Duke of Wellington launched, 140 guns,
3 decks, steam power, screw driven. |
| 1854-1856 |
Crimean War.
|
Shipwrights work long hours on urgently
needed vessels. Soldiers leaving Pembroke Dock for "the seat of the war"
include the 31st Regiment and Lt (later General) Gordon. |
c.
1855 |
|
Llanion Hut camp.
|
1859-1862
|
France launches her first ironclad
warship, La Gloire. Armoured vessels used in American Civil War. |
|
| 1861 |
HMS Warrior completed, the Royal Navy's
first ironclad. |
|
| 1862 |
|
HMS Prince Consort launched, Pembroke Dockyard's
first ironclad screw ship. |
1864
|
|
Pembroke and Tenby Railway reaches Pembroke
Dock. In 1866 the line links with Whitland. |
| 1865 |
|
Cholera epidemic in Pennar |
1870
|
"Forster's Education Act" introduces board
schools. |
Pennar, Albion Square and Llanion schools
follow. |
| 1874 |
|
Sir Edward Reed, chairman of Milford Haven
Shipbuilding ... Co., elected MP for Pembroke Boroughs. |
1877
|
|
Japanese corvette Hi Yei launched at
Jacob's Pill private yard. |
1882-1888
|
|
Battleships Edinburgh, Collingwood, Howe,
Anson, constructed in Royal Dockyard. |
| 1888 |
Local Government Act - Pembrokeshire County Council follows. |
Pembroke Dock to elect County Councillors.
|
1889
|
Welsh Intermediate Education Act permits
County Councils to establish secondary schools, eg . |
Pembroke Dock County Intermediate School
(1895-9).
|
| 1891-1896 |
|
Battleships Empress of
India, Repulse, Renown, Hannibal, constructed in Royal Dockyard. |
| 1897-1899 |
|
Meyrick Wards.
|
| c. 1901 |
|
Carr Jetty. It is
now possible to install ships' engines & heavy equipment within the
Dockyard. |
1901-1907
|
|
Armoured (heavy) cruisers Drake, Essex, Cornwall,
Duke of Edinburgh, Warrior, Defence constructed in Royal Dockyard. |
1902
|
"Balfour Education Act"
abolishes school boards. Borough & County
Council education committees now responsible for elementary & secondary
schools. |
|
| c. 1903 |
|
Llanion Barracks (brick).
|
| 1905 |
|
Town water supply is complete, with reservoirs & street
hydrants. Drainage scheme, begun 1900, under way.
|
1906
|
HMS Dreadnought
launched, the standard for future battleships. |
Pembroke Dockyard lacks
capacity to construct such vessels. |
1908-1912
|
|
Scout cruisers Boadicea, Bellona, Blanche,
Bolnde, Active, Amphion, Fearless constructed in Royal Dockyard. |
1914
|
|
Pembroke Dock's centenary: Albion Square lamp standard commemorates,
and giant procession celebrates, the town's first hundred years. |
| 1914-1918 |
World war I.
|
Dockyard builds light
cruisers, submarines & tanker, with larger workforce. War may have
postponed closure. Bush Camp makes Pembroke Dock an even larger Army depot,
with more than 4000 soldiers in town. |
1926
|
Against a background of
national economic depression, in the year of the General Strike ... |
Closure of
Pembroke Dockyard brings mass unemployment. Many craftsmen seek work
elsewhere.
|
| |
| 1930 |
|
RAF Pembroke Dock
established.
Biplane flying boats arrive. |
| 1939-1945 |
World War II.
|
RAF Pembroke Dock
becomes world's largest operational flying boat base. Sunderland &
Catalina flying boats seek out enemy submarines. |
| 1940-1941 |
|
Air raids. Enemy bombers
ignite Pennar oil tanks, & bring massive destruction to town.
|
| 1944 |
Education act plans reshaped secondary education,
particularly grammar and secondary modern schools - shortly after which ... |
County Intermediate School becomes Pembroke Grammar School,
and Coronation school becomes "secondary modern" school. |
| 1945- |
|
Postwar developments include ...
- Council housing
- Pennar & Bush
estates
-
Factories at Kingswood, later along
Ferry Lane.
-
Marine industries in Dockyard,
particularly R.S. Hayes group of
companies. |
| 1949-c.1955 |
|
Dock Leaves,
arts magazine, published from Pembroke Dock.
|
| 1955-7 |
|
Pater Hall built on site
of bombed Temperance Hall. |
1957-
1959 |
|
Rundown & closure of RAF
Pembroke Dock. |
1957-
1971
|
Development of larger
oil tankers, for which Milford Haven is an ideal harbour.
|
Boom in building oil
refineries & heavy industry along Milford Haven. This brings
work & prosperity for Pembroke Dock. |
1961-
1971 |
|
Sunderland ML824
exhibited next to motor museum in Dockyard. The aircraft is now at RAF
Hendon. |
| 1967 |
|
Last regiment leaves
Llanion Barracks. |
| 1973 |
Secondary education reorganized |
Pembroke Grammar School and Coronation secondary modern
merge into Pembroke Comprehensive School. |
| 1974 |
Local government
reorganization. |
End of Pembroke Borough
Council. Many functions are taken over by South Pembs District Council, with
office at the old Llanion Barracks - until further changes establish
a new Pembrokeshire County Council, 1996. |
| 1975 |
|
Haven Bridge opens - end
of Hobbs' Point - Neyland ferry service. |
| 1979 - |
|
Irish ferry terminal in
Dockyard |
| Later 20th c. |
|
Developments include:
- Port of Pembroke in Dockyard
- Supermarkets
in London Road area -
Co-op, Lidl, Tesco, Kwiksave.
- New library on
reclaimed land.
- Pembroke power station closes after much debate on pollution
& orimulsion fuel.
- Call centre opens next to bridge.
- Golf course on Barrack Hill.
- Housing on old Pennar
Barracks site.
|
1986
|
|
The new Pembroke Dock
Town Council takes office. |
2001
|
|
Gun tower museum opens,
presenting Pembroke Dock's shipbuilding and military history. |
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| 2006 |
|
August 8th The Captain Superintendents house , an imposing
residence adjoining the dockyard gate and lately the Commodore Hotel was
gutted by fire in the early hours |
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