April 15, 1966: Nearly 200 Tenby teenagers, carrying banners and placards and singing the freedom song ‘We shall not be Moved’ marched to the Guildhall as a protest against the town’s lack of entertainment facilities for young people.
One of Pembrokeshire’s best-known local preachers, Mrs. Muriel Berthen, of Saundersfoot, calebrated her 86th birthday on Easter Day - in the pulpit.
The Rectory at St. Florence, a detached Georgian residence standing in half-an-acre of grounds with detached outbuildings, was sold by Messrs. Charles Birt and Company at the Royal Lion Hotel, Tenby, for £6,200.
Pembrokeshire’s resorts which boasted of their mild clime had a shock when they awoke to find the beaches and the palm trees laced with snow. Snow in mid April! And still plenty of holidaymakers around from the Easter holidays. Although other parts of Britain had had April snow as recently as 1950, it was many years since Pembrokeshire, which so rarely saw snow even in mid-winter, had had a white spring.
A greasy course at Deep Cwm, Stepaside, provided thrills and spills for an Easter Saturday holiday crowd in the James Brothers Motorcycle Scramble organised by Saundersfoot and District Motorcycle Club.
A bigger than usual holiday crowd saw the tumbles and triumphs of Easter Monday’s South Pembrokeshire Hunt point to point meeting on a heavy, testing Lydstep course.
Rugby: Tenby United 11 pts Cefneithen 9. A late penalty by fullback Jeff Powling - from wide out on the left, it just squeezed in by the near post - gave Tenby a narrow win in Easter Monday’s game.
Showing at the Royal Playhouse: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O’Connell in ‘The Seven Faces of Lao’.



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