Old Pennar School and the Great Oil Tanks Fire

19 August 1940 was a day that will feature prominently in any history of Pembroke Dock. It was when the clear blue sky of a summer's day was turned black and the Second World War made the first of many impressions on PD.

The story of the oil tanks fire has been told many times and can be read about in more detail on these links:

Phil Carradice tells the story of the bombing of the Oil Tank in Pennar. .....

......and here.

Photographs and more from the Western Telegraph.

The Old School Pennar played a significant role in the drama, as related by Vernon Scott in his book "In Harms Way":

The Photograph below shows the view looking east down Military Road from the site of the Oil Tanks after the cataclysmic Oil Tank Fire in August 1940. 

Does Old Pennar School, a refuge for the selfless firemen that fought the inferno, now face its own cataclysm?

See the caption below

The western end of the Barrack Hill was crowded with locals watching the spectacle of
the oil fuelled blaze. Did the young girl go to Old Pennar School? What would she think now?

The two photographs above are courtesy of Margaret Longueville, who served as an ambulance driver in PD in the Summer of 1940.