In the mid 1950’s the Western Mail ran a weekly series of vignettes entitled ‘History On Your Doorstep’. In September 1954 they featured Haverfordwest and it is interesting to note the changes since then.

The police station is no longer located in the old castle jail – in fact since then it has been a museum and later became home to the record office and archive; it now lies empty. Foley House never became a museum but for a time was used as office space for the council and also for the magistrates’ clerks.

The mediaeval crypt is now out of bounds having been incorporated into the basement of the housing and retail complex at the bottom of Market Street.

The old Grammar School, Moravian Church and half of the warehouses on the quay were demolished more than 50 years ago. The church is remembered in the name of the sheltered housing now occupying the site (Moravian Court) while the school was demolished and replaced with the County Library which itself has been superseded and is earmarked for demolition once a new purposed for the site has been determined.

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