Pembroke Main Street

This project, coined "Dolly Mixtures" seeks to research the history of the buildings in our old walled town of Pembroke and ultimately portray Pembroke Main Street in a series of paintings by local artists. It will soon have its own website which will link into the Pembroke Story.The site aims index every building in Main Street.

 

 

Pembroke has one main street (see Pembroke page) but in this half mile street you will find many interesting buildings from mediaeval to modern.  At one end is the magnificent castle founded in the eleventh century with the picturesque old houses opposite.  Much of the architecture is Georgian built on much older buidings and there are fine examples of Victorian notably the old East End School at the other end - threatened now with demolition.

Here are some examples of these buildings: much research needs to be carried out and if you can add to our knowledge of these or any others we will be pleased to hear from you!

NORTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET

The North side of Main Street stretches from the Castle at the Western side of Pembroke for about half a mile to the East End Square, site of the great Eastern Gate. Of this there is no sign: it was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell at the end of the Second Civil War when Pembroke, led by its mayor John Poyer, switched sides and declared for the king. After a long siege, Poyer was executed and Pembroke's defences rendered useless.

 

Thumbnails of the buildings of Pembroke North are pictured in the table below: to find out more, click the picture

 

SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET

The South side of the Main Street stretches from a picturesque group of Mediaeval cottages at its Western limit (scene too of the Western Gate of the walled town of which only a fragment remains) to the old Victorian East Gate School.

click on the thumbnails below to find out more about the buildings