THE Pembrokeshire Record Office has prepared a small exhibition about events that have taken place on Christmas day in the past.
The exhibition can be viewed in the foyer of the Record Office, which is located within the grounds of Haverfordwest Castle, during December.
The exhibition includes extracts from the diaries of the Griffiths family, of Style Farm, Bosherston, in 1884, Anna Maria Eaton, of Park Glas, Crinow, in 1838, Frances Higgon at the Sistine Chapel, Rome, in 1828, a nurse working at Cottesmore Hospital in 1918 and Private Stanley Griffiths, of Letterston (following his release from a German prison camp) in 1918.
Other Christmas Day events documented in the exhibition include the treatment of patient William Harries by Dr. John Morris Beynon in 1844; a jury presentment for William Nicholas, ferryman, of Pembroke, accused of charging Rev. John Philipps, of Haverfordwest, the extortionate fee of two pence for a passage on the Pembroke ferry on Christmas Day 1783; the signing of a lease for Haverfordwest Temperance Hall by Sidney White, entertainment caterer, in 1921; the birth of William Albert Thomas in Haverfordwest Workhouse in 1886.
The originals of these documents - and others relating to the history of Pembrokeshire - can be seen in the searchroom at the Pembrokeshire Record Office.
The Record Office is open Mondays to Thursdays 9 am to 4.45 pm (10 am on the first Monday of month), Fridays 9 am to 4.15 pm and on the first Saturday of the month from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm.
It will be closed to the public from 1 pm on Wednesday, December 24, until 9 am on Friday, January 2.
Access to both the exhibition and the public searchroom is free.