Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bomb stores at West end of Fort Road
Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, recorded as Magazine (Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Magazine
- Period
- Modern
- Date of designation
- 22 August 2017
- Welsh name
- Storfeydd bomiau ar ben gorllewinol Fort Road
- Community
- Pembroke Dock
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.69332, -4.95963
- SAM number
- PE570
- Cadw record number
- 4396
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of ScotlandNational Library of Scotland
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1885 map "OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903" (National Library of Scotland).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1885 · OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1888 · OS 1:10,560 County Series 1888-1913 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The monument comprises a small complex of structures at the west end of Fort Road, Pembroke Dock. The remains of two bomb store buildings with earth embankments are set in scrubby woodland behind a blast wall which is sited just above the mean high water mark of Fort Road beach. The form of the buildings corresponds to the standard military drawing 3054/36, being brick-built, square and flat-roofed with three openings to the front. The cut-off remains of steel girders provide evidence for the former presence of bomb handling gantries, and the surviving metal doorframes confirm the original inclusion of steel doors (as specified). Bomb stores to this design are found on aerodromes dating to the expansion period (1934 - 39), giving a clear indication of the date of these structures. However, the arrangement of buildings, earth revetments and blast-wall is not typical of an aerodrome plan, most probably reflecting restricted space and the adaptation of a standard aerodrome plan to accommodate the needs of the Pembroke Dock flying boat station.
The monument is of national importance as a well preserved relic and for its potential to provide evidence relating to the build-up of national defences in the inter-war period. Structures from the expansion period incorporated lessons learned from world war I, but were not the hurried and often temporary structures seen throughout world war II. As such, they contain significant potential to inform us about developments in military thinking and technology. The monument is well-preserved, its survival demonstrates both adherence to military plan, and local adaptations which departed from it. It has significant group value with other military structures around Pembroke Dock which are associated with the flying boat station.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area within which related remains may be expected to survive. It is trapezoidal, measuring 73m x 31m at its widest points, and has an area of 0.21ha
Nearby in the register
- South West Dockyard TowerTowerunder 1 mi
- The South West Dockyard TowerDefenceunder 1 mi
- The Dockyard WallsMaritimeunder 1 mi
- The Timber PondMaritimeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.