Regular customers of the Pembroke Bay slipway kiosk are rallying behind the de Carteret family, who have been serving beachgoers there for years. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0614794)

PEMBROKE bay’s ‘community’ is rallying behind its kiosk. Beachgoers said the facility had been there as long as they could remember and they wanted it to stay. The de Carteret family, they said, always went that bit further to help their customers.

‘There’s a community on the beach and the kiosk is a big part of it,’ said plumber Adam Bailey, 38. Mr Bailey and wife Karen have been going to Pembroke since they were youngsters and now take their own children, Jordan, 15, Samuel, 8, and Bryony, 7.

‘If you are short of money one day, they let us pay them the next time we are there – and you couldn’t do that at many places,’ he said.

Maria Waddingham, along with sons Louie, 10, Harry, 8, and Owen, 5, and her mother, Maureen Slattery, go to Pembroke every day the weather is fine in the school holidays. ‘What the States are trying to do is disgusting,’ said Mrs Waddingham.  ‘The kiosk has been around much longer than other places. I can’t see why they won’t let them sell chips or burgers. The kiosk is always spotless and hygiene is never a problem.’