ALL roads led to Pembrokeshire in the latest filming for the hit BBC series Antiques Road Trip.

Taking the trip out west were antiques experts Kate Bliss and Paul Laidlaw. While Kate headed for St Davids, Paul - who has a special interest in military history - went on a journey of discovery to one of the UK’s foremost military towns, Pembroke Dock.

This was Paul’s first-ever visit to Pembroke Dock, which has long connections with all three armed services, and he met up with members of the local heritage teams.

From the Gun Tower on Front Street he was able to view the waterway and learned about the vital contributions made by RAF Pembroke Dock’s flying boats during the wartime Battle of the Atlantic Campaign from John Evans of the Sunderland Trust.

At Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre, in the restored Dockyard Chapel, Paul heard from Rik Saldanha, a volunteer and a member of the Sunderland Trust Dive Group, about the famous Sunderland flying boats and the recovery of many artefacts from Sunderland T9044 which sank off the town in 1940.

Also starring in the filming - which also took in antique establishments in various parts of west Wales - were classic cars, and Paul drove a superb Volvo P1800S sports car dating from the mid-60s. This is the car made famous by Roger Moore in the TV series The Saint.

Antiques Road Trip is produced for the BBC by STV Productions and will be broadcast later in the year. Its actual broadcast date will be announced later.

STV Productions series producer John Redshaw said: "We really enjoyed our visit to Pembroke Dock and the Heritage Centre, and met some fantastic people who made filming a real pleasure. As always, the new series of Antiques Road Trip will be full of laughs, friendly rivalries and lots of great characters as our experts get back on the road to search high and low for weird and wonderful antiques.”

Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust, which runs the Heritage Centre, is a registered charity, and is currently undertaking a big fundraising drive.

The Heritage Centre is open six days a week, Monday to Saturday, from 10am until 4 pm.