Yes, it's difficult to imagine but this popular village was a satelite of the south Wales coalfield, I remember a school text book on the geology of Pembrokeshire showed a black band curving from Saundersfoot all the way to the north of the county. We moved to Saundersfoot in 1954 just after Railway Street was renamed 'The Strand' in order to give the village a bit more class, at that time too there were many traces of the Bonvilles Court Colliery still surviving in the form of slag heaps at the top of the Ridgeway and 'the incline' was still a track that fed the imagination with images of days gone by.