GREAT DAY HAD BY ALL.
Well done every float and walking entry.
Special well done to Happy Valley,All Saints Church and swimmers. 
All winners.
For photos link onto Stel Anthony's Facebook page
http://www.visitporthcawl.co.uk/photogallery/carnival/carnival_2014.htm

Carnival 2014

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Carnival 2013
The Buckaneer Carnival Committee have announced that next year's Carnival theme will be Porthcawl Life since 1914. Great news!
On this page we hope to help groups or individuals understand what Porthcawl Society of 1914 was like.

Unfortunately, the Lifeboat did not exist. 
When the dock closed in 1906 the need for a Lifeboat died with it. It was not re-instated until 1965.
 Scouts and Girl Guides were in their infancy here in Porthcawl. The largest  groups were in Bridgend.

However , there were a lot of other social, sporting, working and commercial groups around.

Porthcawl Life 1914

Possible ideas?
  • Policemen/Criminals
  • Shopkeepers - grocers,butcher's, hairdressers/wigmakers, jewellers,cafe's,fancy goods.
  • Delivery boys
  • Doctors/Nurses/Red Cross.
  • Councillors
  • Schools -Masters,Mistresses,pupils.
  • Coast Watchers
  • Excursions-White Funnel Fleet trips to Ilfracombe.
  • Landladies
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Angus Windsor Hopkins Nottage Blacksmith 1914
  • Nottage Farmers/Blacksmiths/Milkman
  • General Labourers - Road builders,House builders,Sawmill workers, Roadsweepers,Dockworkers.
  • Gas /Electric works
  • Churches
  • Music Hall -  Old Pavilion (top of Gordon Road)
  • Motion pictures at the Coliseum (Spar today)
  • Photographers
  • Banks/Post Office
  • Cabbies ( horse and cart, headquarters old railway station)
  • Firemen - no engines only horse drawn pumps.
  • Houses - Gentlemen and Ladies with servants such as maids,butlers,cooks, chauffeurs .(Downton Abbey style.)
  • Sports Clubs :-

                             Rugby (The Seaweeds)
                             Cricket
                             Hockey
                             Tennis
                             Golf  (Porthcawl and Newton Golf Clubs)
                             Boxing (Billy Rowlands fought the great Freddy Welsh and Jimmy Wilde.)


  • Car Speed Trials at Rest Bay Beach
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Royal Oak
  • Public Houses :- there were over 35, some of which were


                                     Royal Oak
                                     Ship and Castle
                                     Knight's Arms
                                     Victoria Arms
                                     General Picton
                                     Prince of Wales
                                     Jolly Sailor
                                     The Newton Hotel (Ancient Briton)
  • Soldiers - see Garrison Town section on this site.
  • Suffragettes
  • Great Western Railway workers


Summer of 1914 an Italian Circus came to town.
Anyone who needs more historical information or advice concerning life in 1914 to the present day, please do not hesitate to contact us at the Museum.