The new exhibition at Tenby Museum, Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty: Tenby and World War One, opened to the public last week.

The exhibition funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, features stories from the Tenby Observer of the times and puts these local stories into a wider historical context. There are bilingual interpretive panels on recruitment, agriculture, tanks, life in the trenches, black out laws, women in the war and Tenby’s returned men, amongst many others. There are also many artefacts on display, several of which have been borrowed from the Tin Shed Experience, Laugharne, including rifles, helmets, a fljmsy, caltrops, a silent picket, medals, pamphlets, postcards and ceramics.

Collections manager Mark Lewis, who created and wrote the exhibition, said: “The exhibition provides an additional insight into the war, alongside the recent museum publication, Tenby Remembers, but with a different emphasis. It tells the story of the part that Tenby, the town, played in the war and using this local material, I have tried to give a history of these times in both a local and wider way. There is also an excellent video presentation from students of Greenhill School’s history department, who give their personal views on this terrible war that is painful to remember, but impossible to forget.”

The museum is currently open seven days a week, from 10 am to 5 pm, with last admissions at 4.30 pm.