John Eastlake has a copy of Fanny Price Gwynne's book entitled 'Sketches of Tenby' (published in 1846) so made a mental note of the location of her grave when accidentally coming across it in Tenby's Old Cemetery some years ago.
Coincidently, John Eastlake lives in Crackwell Street next door to Fanny Price Gwynne's old home overlooking Tenby Harbour and nowadays appropriately known as Gwynne House.
Following a suggestion from Mark Lewis, of Tenby Museum, Avis Nixon has decided to rename her book about Fanny Price Gwynne from 'A portrait of Fanny' to 'A portrait of Fanny Price Gwynne'.
Avis Nixon has received an invitation from Lord Cope of Berkeley to attend a 'Friends of War Memorials' reception at the House of Lords on July 23, due to Avis Nixon's book 'A Tenby Lifeboat Family' containing a copy (with permission from the Rector of Tenby, Canon David Jenkins, and assistance from Wilf Hardy, president of Tenby Royal British Legion) of the Tenby Roll of Honour for the First and Second World Wars. Also attending will be Tenby-exile David Hooper.
David Hooper's late uncle, George Hooper, was coxswain of Tenby Lifeboat (1931-1946) and known personally by both Avis Nixon and John Eastlake.
Avis Nixon's late father, Alfred Cottam,was his mechanic on the Tenby Lifeboat, while John Eastlake went fishing with him in his later years and bought his last boat from him when he retired - reflecting, as the title of Avis Nixon's book 'A Tenby Lifeboat Family' suggests, that the Tenby of yesteryear was truly a Tenby family!