tenby
{{Short description|Seaside town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = Wales
| welsh_name = Dinbych-y-pysgod
| constituency_welsh_assembly = Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
| official_name = Tenby
| unitary_wales = Pembrokeshire
| lieutenancy_wales = Dyfed
| constituency_westminster = Mid and South Pembrokeshire
| post_town = TENBY
| postcode_district = SA70
| postcode_area = SA
| dial_code = 01834
| website = [https://www.aroundtenby.co.uk www.aroundtenby.co.uk]
| os_grid_reference = SN129007
| coordinates = {{coord|51.6745|-4.7044|display=inline,title}}
| population = 4,696
| population_ref = (2011 census){{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11129495&c=Tenby&d=16&e=62&g=6491938&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1429627132531&enc=1|title=2 Ward populations 2011|access-date=21 April 2015}}
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| static_image_caption = The harbour and old town
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Map of the community
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Tenby ({{langx|cy|Dinbych-y-pysgod|lit=fortlet of the fish}}) is a seaside town and community in the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales. It lies within Carmarthen Bay.
Notable features include {{convert|3|mi|km|0|abbr=off|spell=on}} of sandy beaches and the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, the 13th-century medieval town walls, including the Five Arches barbican gatehouse, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery, the 15th-century St. Mary's Church, and the National Trust's Tudor Merchant's House.
Boats sail from Tenby's harbour to the offshore monastic Caldey Island. St Catherine's Island is tidal and has a 19th-century Palmerston Fort.
The town has an operating railway station. The A478 road from Cardigan, Ceredigion, connects Tenby with the M4 via the A477, the A40 and the A48 in approximately {{convert|40|mi|km|-1|abbr=off}}.
History
=Middle Ages=
With its strategic position on the far west coast of Britain, and a natural sheltered harbour from both the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea, Tenby was a natural settlement point, probably a hill fort with the mercantile nature of the settlement possibly developing under Hiberno-Norse influence. The earliest reference to a settlement at Tenby is in Etmic Dinbych, a poem probably from the ninth century.{{cite book|title=Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies|page=29|publisher=Cambridge University Press|editor-first=Huw |editor-last=Pryce|isbn=9780521570398| year=1998}}
Tenby was taken by the Normans, when they invaded West Wales in the early 12th century. The town's first stone-wall fortification was on Castle Hill. Tenby's mercantile trade grew as it developed as a major seaport in Norman controlled Little England beyond Wales.
Flemish settlers from Tenby tried to assassinate Cadell ap Gruffydd, the Welsh prince of Deheubarth, after which the settlement and castle were successfully attacked and sacked by his brothers Maredudd and Rhys in 1150{{cite book|last=Laws|first=Edward|title=The History of Little England Beyond Wales|publisher=Bell, London |date=1888| page=115|url= https://archive.org/details/b21781023/page/107|accessdate=26 February 2023}} highlighting the need for additional defences. Sacking of the town was repeated in 1187 and again by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in 1260.{{Cite web|url=http://www.castlewales.com/tenby.html|title=Tenby Castle|website=castlewales.com}}
After the final attack, William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke ordered the construction of the Tenby town walls in the late 13th century. The stone curtain wall, towers and gates enclosed a large part of the settlement{{mdash}}now known as the "old town". In the Late Middle Ages, Tenby was awarded royal grants to finance the maintenance and improvement of its defences and the enclosure of its harbour. With the construction of the town walls, Tenby Castle was made obsolete and had been abandoned by the end of the 14th century.
=Wars of the Roses=
In 1452,Thomas, R. S. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27796 "Tudor, Jasper
Traders sailed along the coast to Bristol and Ireland and further afield to France, Spain and Portugal. Exports included wool, skins, canvas, coal, iron and oil; while in 1566 Portuguese seamen landed the first oranges in Wales.{{cite web|url=http://www.penmar-tenby.co.uk/tenby.html|title=tenby|publisher=penmar-tenby.co.uk|access-date=16 September 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402145501/http://www.penmar-tenby.co.uk/tenby.html|archive-date=2 April 2012}} It was during this period that the town was so busy and important, it was considered to be a national port. During the Wars of the Roses Henry Tudor, the future King Henry VII of England, sheltered at Tenby before sailing into exile in 1471.
=Tudors and the Civil War=
In the mid-16th century, the large D-shaped tower formerly known as the "Five Arches tavern" was built following fears of a second Spanish Armada.
Two key events caused the town to undergo rapid and permanent decline in importance. First, Tenby declared for Parliament in the English Civil War. It resisted two attempts by the Royalists forces of Charles Gerard, who took most of the rest of South Wales. However in the Second English Civil War the commander of Tenby Castle declared for the King in 1648, although ten weeks later the shattered town was surrendered to the parliamentarian Colonel Thomas Horton, who welcomed Oliver Cromwell shortly afterwards. Second, a plague outbreak killed half of the town's remaining population in 1650.
With limited infrastructure, resources and people, the town's economy fell into decline. Most of the merchant and business class left, resulting in the town's decay and ruin. By the end of the 18th century, John Wesley noted during his visit how: "Two-thirds of the old town is in ruins or has entirely vanished. Pigs roam among the abandoned houses and Tenby presents a dismal spectacle."{{cite web|url=http://kuiters.org/wgj/history/botgardpaxton.html|title=Sir William Paxton|publisher=kuiters.org|access-date=16 September 2011}}
=Nineteenth Century=
Another war led to a resurgence in Tenby's fortunes. Since 1798, the French General Napoleon Bonaparte had begun conquering Europe restricting the rich British upper classes from making their Grand Tours to continental spa towns. In 1802 local resident, merchant banker and politician, Sir William Paxton, bought his first property in the old town. From this point onwards he invested heavily in the area with the full approval of the town council.
With the growth in saltwater sea-bathing for health purposes, Paxton engaged engineer James Grier and architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell (the same team who had built his home at Middleton Hall) to create a "fashionable bathing establishment suitable for the highest society." His sea-bathing baths came into operation in July 1806 and, after acquiring the Globe Inn, transformed it into "a most lofty, elegant and convenient style" to lodge the more elegant visitors to his baths. Cottages were erected adjoining the baths with adjoining livery stables and coach house.
A road was built on arches overlooking the harbour at Paxton's full expense in 1814. He had a private act of Parliament{{which|date=December 2024}} passed{{when|date=December 2024}} that enabled fresh water to be piped through the town. Despite these accomplishments, his 1809 theatre was closed in 1818 due to lack of patronage. The Market Hall was completed in 1829 and remodelled to serve as Tenby Town Hall in 1860.
Paxton also took in "tour" developments in the area as required by rich Victorian tourists. This included the discovery of a chalybeate spring in his own park at Middleton Hall, and coaching inns from Swansea to Narberth. He built Paxton's Tower, in memorial to Lord Nelson whom he had met in 1802 when mayor of Carmarthen. Paxton's efforts to revive the town succeeded and after the Battle of Trafalgar, the growth of Victorian Tenby was inevitable.
Through both the Georgian and Victorian eras Tenby was renowned as a health resort and centre for botanical and geological study.{{Cite web|url=http://www.virtualtenby.co.uk/hist-vict.asp|title=Victorian History Tenby|website=virtualtenby.co.uk}} With many features of the town being constructed to provide areas for healthy seaside walks, due to the walkways being built to accommodate Victorian nannies pushing prams, many of the beaches today still retain good disabled access. In 1856 writer Mary Ann Evans (pen-name George Eliot) accompanied George Henry Lewes to Tenby to gather materials for his work Seaside Studies published in 1858.
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In 1852, the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society deployed a lifeboat to the town, taken over in 1854 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. In 1905 a slip-way equipped lifeboat station was built on Castle Hill. It was replaced by a modern station in 2008.
Tenby railway station and the Pembroke and Tenby Railway were opened as far as Pembroke on 30 July 1863. The extended line to Pembroke Dock opened on 8 August 1864. In 1866, the line was connected to Whitland railway station.[http://www.pembrokeshirevirtualmuseum.co.uk/main_menu/trade_and_industry/trains/a_chronology_of_pembrokeshire_railways.html History of Pembrokeshire Railways] Pembrokeshire Virtual Museum. Retrieved 3 March 2009 In 1867, work began on the construction of the Palmerston Fort on St Catherine's Island. The Army had control of the fort during 1887{{ndash}}1895.{{cite web|title=St Catherine's Island|url=http://tenbyisland.co.uk/|access-date=13 May 2015}}
The old town castle walls have survived, as does the Victorian revival architecture in a pastel colour scheme. The economy is based on tourism, supported by a range of craft, art and other stores. {{as of|2017|April}}, there are 372 listed buildings and other structures in and around Tenby.{{cite web|title=Listed Buildings in Tenby, Pembrokeshire|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wales/tenby-pembrokeshire|website=British Listed Buildings|access-date=21 April 2017}}
Governance
There are two tiers of local government covering Tenby, at community (town) and county level: Tenby Town Council and Pembrokeshire County Council. The town council is based at the De Valence Pavilion on Upper Frog Street.{{cite web |title=Contact us |url=https://tenbytowncouncil.co.uk/contact/ |website=Tenby Town Council |access-date=7 August 2022}}
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Tenby was an ancient borough, having been given a charter in 1290 by William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and being formally incorporated as a borough by Elizabeth I in 1581.{{cite web |title=Tenby Borough Records |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/9e1d660d-4ee7-3cbb-affe-6e80d028d727 |website=Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) |access-date=7 August 2022}} The borough was reformed to become a municipal borough in 1836. From 1860 until 1947 the borough council was based at Tenby Town Hall on High Street.{{NHAW|desc=The Old Town Hall and Market Hall|num=6169|access-date=5 June 2022}} In 1947 the council moved to Croft House on The Norton, later renaming it Guildhall.{{cite news |title=£12,000 Hotel as Civic Centre |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |access-date=7 August 2022 |work=Western Mail |date=1 May 1947 |location=Cardiff |page=3}}{{NHAW|desc=Croft House|num=6195|access-date=7 August 2022}} Tenby Borough Council was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, with the area becoming part of the new district of South Pembrokeshire within the county of Dyfed on 1 April 1974. A community was established to cover the area of the former borough, with its council taking the name Tenby Town Council.{{cite legislation UK|type=act|year=1972|chapter=70|act=Local Government Act 1972|accessdate=31 July 2022}}{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Districts in Wales (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|num=34|accessdate=31 July 2022}} The town council continued to be based at the guildhall until the mid-1980s when it moved to the De Valence Pavilion on Upper Frog Street.Telephone directory, 1982: Tenby Town Council, Guildhall{{London Gazette|issue=50544|page=7670|date=9 June 1986}} The district of South Pembrokeshire was abolished in 1996, with the area becoming part of a re-established Pembrokeshire.{{cite legislation UK|type=act|year=1994|chapter=19|act=Local Government (Wales) Act 1994|accessdate=7 August 2022}}
Education
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There are four schools in the Tenby schools area, consisting of three primary schools and one secondary school: Ysgol Hafan-y-Mor, Tenby Church in Wales Primary School, St. Teilo's RC School and Ysgol Greenhill Secondary.
Pupils from St. Teilo's School and Tenby Church in Wales School are automatically enrolled in the Greenhill School, but parents can enrol them into a different school.{{cn|date=November 2024}} Ysgol Hafan y Môr is a Welsh language medium school. Most of the pupils go on to Ysgol y Preseli, a Welsh-medium secondary school in Crymych.{{cn|date=November 2024}}
Previous schools in the area were Tenby V.C. Infants School which was an English medium school with a Welsh unit. Pupils from this school would automatically enrol in Tenby Junior School which has now been converted into Ysgol Hafan y Môr. Tenby V.C. Infant school was demolished in 2016 and turned into a field for the nearby Greenhill School.{{cn|date=November 2024}}
Tourism
Attractions include the two sheltered, sandy beaches and the coastal boat trips to Caldey Island. St Catherine's Island is tidal and the site of St Catherine's Fort a 19th-century Palmerston Fort. In August 2016, the fort faced an "uncertain future" and was closed to the public.{{cite web |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tenby-landmark-st-catherines-island-11746678 |title=Tenby landmark St Catherine's Island will close this month – just a year after it reopened |first=Ruth |last=Mosalski |website=Wales Online |date=14 August 2016 |access-date=17 January 2017}} Tenby has shops, pubs and restaurants to cater for visitors. The Sunday Times rated Tenby's Castle Beach the best beach in the UK in 2019.{{cite news|work=Tivyside Advertiser|date=21 July 2019|author=Bruce Sinclair|url=https://www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/pembrokeshire_news/17785079.tenby-beach-named-best-uk-sunday-times/|title=Tenby beach named best in UK by Sunday Times|access-date=21 July 2019}}
Transport
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File:Tenby Railway Station - geograph.org.uk - 672398.jpg
File:St Catherine's Island, Tenby - geograph.org.uk - 609617.jpg
Tenby railway station serves the town on the {{rws|Pembroke Dock}} branch of the West Wales Line operated by Transport for Wales Rail, who also manage the station. Trains run in each direction; westwards towards Pembroke and eastwards to {{rws|Whitland}}, {{rws|Carmarthen}} and {{rws|Swansea}}. In peak season, trains run direct from Paddington to Tenby on Saturdays.
The nearest airport is Cardiff International.
Sport
Tenby United RFC, a rugby union club has existed since 1876. It is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union.
In 1970, the Tenby Sea Swimming Association started the Boxing Day Swim. Each swimmer who enters for a charity receives a medal.{{cite web|title=Tenby Boxing Day Swim|url=http://www.tenbyboxingdayswim.co.uk|access-date=4 February 2019}}
Tenby hosts the Welsh Ironman Triathlon in September. There is also the Tenby Aces Cycling Club and the 18-hole Tenby Golf Course that provides links golf by the coast.
Notable residents
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- Robert Recorde (c. 1512 – 1558), Anglo-Welsh physician and mathematician.{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Recorde, Robert |volume= 22 | page = 966 |short=1}}
- Sir William Paxton (1744−1824), Scottish-born sailor, businessman and Welsh MP for Carmarthen; he developed Tenby into a seaside resort.{{cite web|url=http://kuiters.org/wgj/history/botgardpaxton.html|title=Sir William Paxton|publisher=kuiters.org}}
- Charles Norris (1779–1858), English topographical etcher and writer; moved to Tenby in 1810.{{cite DNB |wstitle= Norris, Charles |volume= 41 |last= Thomas |first= Daniel Lleufer |author-link= Daniel Lleufer Thomas |pages = 116-117 |short=1}}
- David Thomas (1813–1894), preacher and publisher of The Homilist, a magazine of liturgical thought.{{cite DNB |wstitle= Thomas, David (1813-1894) |volume= 56 |last= Boase |first= George Clement |author-link= George Clement Boase |page = 177-178 |short=1}}
- George Edward Day (1815–1872), Welsh physician.{{Cite DNB|wstitle=Day, George Edward|volume=14}}
- Fanny Price-Gwynne (1819–1901), Welsh novelist, artist, composer, poet and philanthropist; born in Tenby.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pembrokeshirehistoricalsociety.co.uk/portrait-fanny-price-gwynne/|title=A Portrait of Fanny Price Gwynne|date=2016-12-12|website=Pembrokeshire Historical Society|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-25}}
- Thomas Purnell (1834–1889), author and London drama critic; born in Tenby.{{Cite DNB |wstitle= Purnell, Thomas |volume= 47 |last= Carlyle |first= E. I. |author-link= E. I. Carlyle |page = 48 |short=1}}
- Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield (1873–1967), senior Royal Navy officer during WW1, educated at St Andrew's School, TenbyHeathcote, Tony (2002) The British Admirals of the Fleet 1734–1995 Pen & Sword Ltd page 40 {{ISBN|0-85052-835-6}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/108544/Boer-War-Memorial-St-Andrews-School.htm|title=Boer War Memorial St. Andrew's School - Tenby - TracesOfWar.com|website=tracesofwar.com}}
- Gwen John (1876–1939), Welsh artist who worked in France
- Augustus John (1878–1961), Welsh painter, draughtsman and etcher; born in Tenby.
- Tenby Davies (1884–1932), Welsh athlete and half-mile world professional champion in 1909
- J. Ernest James B.D. (1884–1945), Congregational minister in Australia
- Nina Hamnett (1890–1956), Welsh artist and writer, became known as the Queen of Bohemia; born in Tenby
- Dick Rees (1894-1951), five-time champion jump jockey, raised in Tenby
- Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977), historian and biographer; she wrote about the Victorian era
- Kenneth Griffith (1921–2006), Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker; born in Tenby
- Alison Bielski (1925–2014), poet and writer; wrote about Tenby
- Gwilym Prichard (1931–2015), Welsh landscape painter, lived and died in Tenby
- Clive Merrison (born 1945), British actor of film, TV, stage and radio; born in Tenby
- Rosie Swale-Pope (born 1946), British author, adventurer and marathon runner; lives in Tenby
- Michael Bonacini (born 1960), Welsh-Canadian chef, born and raised in Tenby{{cite web | title = Michael Bonacini | publisher = Bell Media Television | url = https://www.marilyn.ca/Experts/Expert-List/Michael-Bonacini | access-date = 9 May 2018 }}
- Grant Llewellyn (born 1960), Welsh conductor and music director of the North Carolina Symphony
- Rhidian Brook (born 1964), Welsh novelist, screenwriter and broadcaster; born in Tenby
- Kate Lamb (born 1988), actress, grew up in Tenby.[http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/14170017.Tenby_actress_Kate_s_return_to_TV_s_Call_the_Midwife/ "Tenby actress Kate's return to TV's Call the Midwife"], Western Telegraph, 28 December 2015. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
Wally the Walrus
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On 19 March 2021, an Arctic walrus was spotted on the rocks of Broad Haven South beach, after initially making the journey over from Ireland. During its time in Tenby, it was situated primarily on the new RNLI Lifeboat Tenby slipway. Wally was not spotted between 5 and 8 April 2021 and there were concerns that sightseers had driven him away,{{Cite news|date=7 April 2021|title=Wally the walrus: Crowds 'may have driven' creature from Tenby|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56665547|access-date=10 April 2021}} but he was back regularly resting on the slipway later in the month, and on one occasion had to be moved to allow the slipway to be used.{{cite news|publisher=BBC|title=Wally the walrus: Lifeboat crew use horn to budge animal|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56940239|date=30 April 2021|access-date=1 May 2021}}
Some believed that the walrus made the journey from the Arctic on an ice floe.{{Cite news|date=30 March 2021|title=Wally the Walrus 'flipped dinghy and tried to board fishing boat'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56582311|access-date=3 April 2021}} The RSPCA believes this is the most southernly sighting of the species; occasionally they can be seen in Scotland.{{Cite web|last=Owen|first=Cathy|date=31 March 2021|title=Walrus basks in the sunshine in Tenby|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/fun-stuff/walrus-tenby-pembrokeshire-rnli-lifeboat-20285721|access-date=3 April 2021|website=WalesOnline|language=en}}
Despite spending most of his days resting and scavenging for food, he has been causing some mischief. It was reported that he capsized a dingy and damaged a fishing boat trying to board the vessels.
Freedom of the Town
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Town of Tenby.
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=Individuals=
- David Lloyd George{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7598037.stm|title=The honour of the freedom award|date=10 September 2008|publisher=BBC}}
- Augustus John: 30 October 1959.{{Cite web|url=https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/augustus-john-artist-receives-freedom-of-the-borough-of-his-home-town-of-tenby-in-wales-augustus-edwin-john-om-ra-4-january-1878-oo-31-october-1961-was-a-welsh-painter-draughtsman-and-etcher-for-a-short-time-around-1910-he-was-an-important-exponen-2294525a|title=Augustus John Artist Receives Freedom Borough His Editorial Stock Photo – Stock Image {{pipe}} Shutterstock|website=Shutterstock Editorial}}
- Wilfred Harrison: 1969.
- Sue Lane: 10 May 2023.
- Cllr Trevor Hallett: 10 May 2023.
{{cite web |url=https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/23478786.freedom-town-honour-ex-tenby-mayors-sue-lane-trevor-hallett/ |title=Freedom of Town honour for ex Tenby mayors Sue Lane and Trevor Hallett |last=Davies |first=Ruth |date=25 April 2023 |website=The Western Telegraph |access-date=20 August 2023 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/23518505.freedom-tenby-conferred-ex-mayors-trevor-hallett-sue-lane/ |title=Freedom of Tenby conferred on ex-mayors,Trevor Hallett and Sue Lane |last=Davies |first=Ruth |date=12 May 2023 |website=The Western Telegraph |access-date=20 August 2023 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.tenby-today.co.uk/news/freedom-of-the-town-for-two-tenby-council-stalwarts-609650 |title=Freedom of the town for two Tenby Council stalwarts |last=Evans |first=Paul |date=26 April 2023 |website=The Tenby Observer |access-date=20 August 2023 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.tenby-today.co.uk/news/remarkable-tenby-ambassadors-given-freedom-of-the-town-613448 |title=Remarkable Tenby ambassadors given 'Freedom of the Town' |last=Evans |first=Paul |date=11 May 2023 |website=The Tenby Observer |access-date=20 August 2023 }}
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Climate
Tenby experiences a maritime climate with cool summers, mild winters and often high winds. Due to its coastal southwest position, it is one of the sunnier locations in Wales.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Tenby}}
- [https://tenbytowncouncil.co.uk/ Tenby Town Council]
- [https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Tenby Further historical information and sources on GENUKI]
- [https://www.tenbymemorialcommittee.be Tenby Memorial Committee]
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