A sought-after book featuring rare and valuable local postcards is back in print with a new handy format. Well-known collector of Pembrokeshire postcards, Ken Daniels, only recently learned that Nonesuch Publishing had chosen his 'Saundersfoot and Tenby' pictorial history as one of 40 best-selling books to reprint in a pocket edition. The decision will be a welcome one for many people in Tenby and Saundersfoot, since only 2,000 copies were printed the first time around in 1995. "They sold in no time at all," commented Ken Daniels, a regular contributor to our sister paper, the Tenby Times. "Pembrokeshire has been fortunate to have always had excellent photographers across the county, leaving a legacy of events and street scenes. Many of the best photographic postcards are very scarce, because there may only have been six cards produced at the time. "Tenby photographer Mortimer Allen had a reputation for taking a photograph of a special event one day; the next it would be in his window. That was when he had the studio in High Street. "Of course, with the seaside attracting visitors from all parts, postcards from Tenby went all over the world." Mr. Daniels was inspired to start his collection when he was employed in his first teaching post in 1951. On visiting the market stall in Enfield, he came across a stall where a man was selling cigarette cards and postcards kept in shoeboxes. Despite being 300 miles away from Pembrokeshire, he discovered three pictures of Saundersfoot amongst the collection, and found that special longing for home, or hiraeth awakened. Mr. Daniels recalled: "In those days you could buy postcards for a penny or a ha'penny; boxes for half a crown, but good photographic cards now are hard to find. Most of them are in collections." The most valuable card in Ken Daniels's collection is one of Emily Pankhurst's impromptu rally in Laston Square. Unlike other Mortimer Allen postcards, it is neither named nor dated, so its historical significance could easily be missed. Priced at £5.99, the 160-page pocket size 'Saundersfoot and Tenby', includes 240 old photographs capturing with intimacy colourful local characters, family businesses, sporting scenes, special events and forgotten patterns of work. The publishers conclude: "It is a book which will evoke nostalgia among local residents and will intrigue and inform both those who have retired to these communities and the many thousands of people who each year make Saundersfoot and Tenby their choice of holiday destination."