These houses were built in Harbour Village which was at the top of the Cw or New Hill. The houses were built around 1908 to accommodate the influx of workers for the Fishguard and Goodwick Harbour. Together with those at St David’s Place, almost 150 houses were built in the area.
The houses at Harbour village consisted of two and three bedroomed homes – all of which had electricity provided by the power house on the harbour. At this time there would have been very few houses in Fishguard with electricity. It is said that the houses cost up to £175 each to build. The GWR provided a bakery at the top of the hill which in later years became the Happidrome cinema.
The views from these houses being in an elevated position, especially those on “Front Street”, were panoramic!
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I was told that the boy on the right of the third photograph was Charlie Perkins. Even in the 1940s my grandmother’s house in Harbour Village only had electricity for lighting downstairs. Cooking was either on the coal-fired range or on a Primus stove. I was also told that the Irish employees of the Fishguard and Rosslare company lived at the end nearest Goodwick and the Welsh employees lived at the top end.
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