Collections

Silver epergne presented to the former Mayor of Haverfordwest William Walters in 1855. Originally part of a whole dining service, this alone survives. It commemorates the opening of the South Wales Railway at Haverfordwest in 1853 and has engravings of a railway tunnel and the town crest. The service was presented to Mr. Walters by a public subscription to thank him for hie efforts in bringing the railway to town. 

Seven-faced corbel stone from the Chapter House of the Augustinian Priory at Haverfordwest and ingeniously the faces share six eyes. Found during excavations in 1990. The priory was founded circa 1200 and was closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536. 

Sword in German silver and presented to the Commanding officer of the local volunteers, Lt. Colonel Xavier Peel of Glanafon in 1868. The blade is appropriately inscribed. 

Butter Churn made at the Llewellin churchworks, a local manufactory of importance which made dairy utensils and equipment for the dairy industry whose products were exported all over the world. The business began as a coopers in 1789 and eventually closed in 1966. 

Silver merchants ring, fifteenth century, found locally in 2015 and acquired by the museum through the Saving Treasures Grant. The ring bears a monogram and would have belonged to a member of the affluent merchants in Haverfordwest who traded to Ireland, English coastal ports, France, Spain and elsewhere.

Wooden carving of the so-called ‘Green Man’ from the fifteenth century and taken from the ceiling of St. Mary’s Church in 1844.

Chain worn by the Mayor of Haverfordwest and gifted to the council by a local landowner and academic, Mr. George Leader Owen in 1887 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The central jewel contains a representation of the town arms. Haverfordwest has had a mayorship since 1479. 

Dramatic drawing of an execution at Haverfordwest castle drawn by John Attwood, a local artist. The drawing depicts the execution of David Duckfield for murder in April 1801. Duckfield was later gibbeted at Tavernspite Common.

An ornate nineteenth-century till taken from the long-established barbers and tobacconist shop of Mr. Sidney Pugh which was located at the top of High Street.

Sketch of a man sitting around a campfire drawn by internationally famous artist Augustus John (1878-1961) and drawn in the 1930s. John lived for some of his childhood in Haverfordwest. His older sister Gwen was born in town in 1876.

The original town stocks, thought to be around 300 years old and which were once located at Pillory Street near St. Mary’s Church. They were famously viewed by David Lloyd George when he visited town in 1905. They were used to humiliate people who had committed offences and misdemeanours and were last used in the mid nineteenth-century.

The only remaining cell door from the Haverfordwest prison which was built in 1820 and then converted into the county police headquarters in 1878.

Watercolour by noted local artist Theo Whalley showing the entrance to the old prison governor’s house (the former and future Haverfordwest Town Museum). Also depicted, on the right, is the fine Georgian villa, Foley House, designed by John Nash.