Griffiths was born in 1915 at Pembroke Dock where his father was a senior Admiralty civil servant.
The oil-fuelled fire that followed raged for 18 days and was recorded as the largest UK conflagration since the Great Fire of London.
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The town briefly had a resurgence in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the arrival of large superstores such as Tesco and Asda, the development of the Cleddau Business Park, and also the local Peacocks.
Earl of Pembroke | Dixon of Dock Green | Pembroke Parish | Pembroke | Pembroke College, Cambridge | Pembroke College | Pembroke College, Oxford | Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke | William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke | Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke | Albert Dock | Tyne Dock | Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke | Pembroke School, Adelaide | Royal Victoria Dock | Robert Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke | Pembroke Pines, Florida | Pembroke Pines | Jim Pembroke | George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke | Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke | William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke | Victoria Dock | Tilbury (the dock town, founded from c.1883) | The Pembroke Hill School | Stanley Dock | Rotterdam-class amphibious transport dock | Philip Pembroke Stephens | Percival Pembroke |
In 1992, she was chartered to B&I Line for use on their Irish Sea services and was renamed MS Isle Of Innisfree; Initially she served Pembroke Dock - Rosslare and later Holyhead - Dublin.
The village has a railway station which has regular rail connections to London Paddington, Pembroke Dock, Milford Haven, Carmarthen, Swansea, Cardiff, Crewe and Manchester Picadilly, regular buses between Carmarthen and Llanelli.
The new Isle of Inishmore was delivered in 1997 enabling Isle of Innisfree to replace Isle of Inishturk on the Pembroke Dock - Rosslare route.
BT's telephone exchange which serves Pembroke and Pembroke Dock is yet to be upgraded to offer either 21CN, FTTC or LLU.