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[Jackson documents]  3 Victorian Documents
These documents comprise (A) an 1869 mortgage transfer involving Neyland merchant/shipowner Thomas Thompson Jackson, (B) an 1882 agreement for the sale of his Milford Haven business by his widow Caroline (nee Gilbert) - the business included leases on several plots of land on the Picton Castle and Lawrenny estates together with an assortment of steamers, barges and a hulk (all of them named), and (C) an 1887 assignment by Caroline of most if not all of the leases listed in the 1882 document.  The 1882 and 1887 documents show how the business was continued by Thomas Jackson's business manager John Henry Coram.  The three documents (ref 756)   £20.00 post-free  Not for export

Old Haverfordwest
W D Phillips, nd evidently 1920s.  Blue cloth boards, 121pp followed by 8pp list of subscribers, 6 plates inc photos as required.  'Mr Phillips is in a position to know probably more of the old town of his birth than any one now living.   He has spent all his life in the town and has been connected with a variety of interests in his busy career'.  Wonderful local history book full of facts, anecdotes, events and traditions.  Both boards badly water damaged (the front is pretty awful) though thankfully the contents are hardly affected, so we've priced for condition at  (ref 2123)  £10.00

Llanfyrnach Parish Lore
E T Lewis, priv pub, nd but 1969.  Slate grey card covers, 143pp, 12 photos + other ills.  A surprising amount of detail in this well-written local history.  Front cover waterstained, slight rippling of contents as a result, even so a G copy.  (ref 3007)  £10.00 UK post-free

The Story of Milford (Milford Haven)
J F Rees, 1957 2nd ed.  149pp inc index, 18 plates, 7 other ills.   Small dogears to the lower corners of 4 leaves o/w VG in G d/w.  (ref 1198)   £18.50

The Church of St Brynach, Nevern
16pp pamphlet, 1950 rep, 7 ills. G. (ref 2719) £2.00 UK post-free

[Pembroke Dock] An Act for enabling the Corporation of Pembroke to relinquish...the Right of letting the Stalls, Sittings and other Conveniences in the Market established in the Town of Pembroke Dock, and to the Right to the Rents, Tolls, and Fees thereof
1825 printed Act, disbound, pp357-359. (ref 7940) £4.50 UK post-free

Review of Part of the Boundary between the Counties of Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire in the Area of the Community of St Dogmaels - Draft Proposals
Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales, undated but assumed to be 2002.  A4 format in yellow card covers,13+6+2+8+5pp in English and the same repeated in Welsh,  maps in English and Welsh in the centre.  'The purpose of the review is to consider whether, in the interests of effective and convenient local government, the Commission should propose changes to the present boundary' - draw your own conclusions as to what this means.   Ex-Glamorgan Record Office Library, their stamp at foot of title-page.  (ref 252/127)  £4.00

Review of Part of the Boundary between the Counties of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire in the Area of the Communities of Clynderwen and Llandissilio West - Draft Proposals
Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales, undated but assumed to be 2001.  A4 format in yellow card covers,15pp in English and the same repeated in Welsh,  maps in English and Welsh in the centre.  'The purpose of the review is to consider whether, in the interests of effective and convenient local government, the Commission should propose changes to the present boundary' - draw your own conclusions as to what this means.   Ex-Glamorgan Record Office Library, their stamp at foot of title-page.  (ref 252/128)  £4.00