PEMBROKE Dock Heritage Centre has gained some exciting new attractions.

Guy Anderson has loaned two artefacts which span the decades of military history and the two world wars.

One is a fine example of the ubiquitous Vickers water cooled machine gun, used for decades by the British military. It is on display alongside another product of the famous Vickers company, a ‘K’ or ‘Gas Operated’ machine gun which was recovered from Sunderland T9044.

The Sunderland sank in the Haven Waterway nearly 75 years ago and its Vickers gun is among many artefacts from T9044 on view at the Heritage Centre.

There is an intriguing historical trail behind the substantial part of a World War I French tank, also loaned by Guy. This is the turret mantlet and gun barrel from a Renault FT17 tank, which was produced in large numbers.

In the Second World War many of these tank turrets were incorporated into Hitler’s ‘Atlantic Wall’, this one was on the island of Jersey and now ‘guards’ the entrance to the Heritage Centre.

Guy is restoring the 1850s Western Gun Tower, one of two unique towers built to protect the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock.

The Centre has also gained a well-preserved metal seat and fittings believed to be from a Wellington bomber - loaned by lifelong aviation enthusiast Andrew Clark.

Andrew, who lives at Johnston, has owned the seat for at least 35 years.

He said: “I am told it is from a Vickers Wellington, a twin-engined bomber which served throughout World War II. It is certainly from a British aircraft of that period in history.”

The Volunteer Crew at the Heritage Centre - in the Royal Dockyard Chapel - will be carrying out conservation work on the seat which links in history to displays at the Centre relating to another famous wartime aircraft, the Short Sunderland flying boat.