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Dist:0.1km<br/>Taken with the museum behind me.
View of the hill behind the eastern part of Pendine.

©Dara Jasumani

Dist:0.2km<br/>This is a lane that comes down from Pendine village to the sea. There are several houses on each side of it, including The Rectory, set back from the lane with a driveway to it.

©Humphrey Bolton

Dist:0.3km<br/>This is a short cut if going through Pendine to Laugharne, but it is narrow and steep.

©Humphrey Bolton

Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the middle part of Pendine, between the village at the top and the seaside resort at the bottom. From memory, the obelisk commemorates the Coronation of Edward VII.

©Humphrey Bolton

Dist:0.4km<br/>This shows the Peter Williams Memorial Chapel (see [[943012]]) in context.

©Humphrey Bolton

Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the Peter Williams Memorial Chapel and according to Genuki it is English Presbyterian and Moravian. It was built in 1810, and modified, altered or rebuilt in 1896.

©Humphrey Bolton

Dist:0.4km<br/>The car park for the beach.

©Gordon Griffiths

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©Gareth James

Dist:0.6km<br/>The notices read:
"Pendine.
On these sands between 1924 & 1927 the worlds land speed record was broken five times.
1924 Malcolm Campbell Sunbeam 146.16 m.p.h.
1924 Malcolm Campbell Sunbeam 150.87 m.p.h.
1926 J.G.P. Thomas Thomas(Babs) 169.30 m.p.h.
1926 J.G.P. Thomas Thomas(Babs) 171.02 m.p.h.
1927 Malcolm Campbell Napier Campbell 174.88 m.p.h.
Parry Thomas was killed at Pendine March 3rd 1927 whilst attempting to regain the record. His friends then reburied the car in the sand dunes."

"The Beach Hotel was the headquarters of all these and other great record attempts. Many famous men worked on their machines in the hotel garage and in the yard.
This tribute is erected to their memory by Buckleys Brewery Ltd"

Babs, the car referred to, was later disinterred and is on display at the nearby Museum of Speed http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/944101 (2008)
The Beach Hotel in context: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/942848 (2008)
Buckley's Brewery was founded in Llanelli in 1767 and purchased by S A Brains of Cardiff in 1997.

©G E Jeal

Dist:0.6km<br/>The A4066 from the east has a change of identity outside of this pub. It transforms into the B4314.

©Stuart Logan

Dist:0.6km<br/>Babs was the land speed record car built and driven by John Parry-Thomas. It was powered by a 27-litre Liberty aero-engine

©Mr M Evison

Dist:0.6km<br/>Surfers leave the beach into Pendine.

©Gordon Griffiths

Dist:0.6km<br/>The farmhouse was built in the 17C, but has been modernised since, eg sash windows. The entrance piers with their ball finials are late 17C or early 18C, according to the Pevsner guide.

©Humphrey Bolton

Dist:0.6km<br/>The Beach Hotel, with gables just left of centre, is one of the few buildings that were down here by the sea in 1891. The stream outfall can be clearly seen. The Museum of Speed is to the right.

©Humphrey Bolton

Dist:0.6km<br/>The widest part, going past the Beach Hotel, which was shown on the 1891 OS map. The nearest building might possibly be the one captioned 'Beach Villa' on that map.

©Humphrey Bolton

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