Central Swansea c.1989
A set of old aerial survey phtos for Townhill, Cockett, and Uplands c.1989
1. Mount Pleasant, Mayhill, Tycoch.
2. Uplands, Cockett, Cwm Donkin.
The historic fountain that was destroyed by redevelopment at St Helen's Recreation Ground
The following photographs are the 'missing' pictures that are the only documentation of the destruction of the fountain. No one is prepared to acknowledge who is responsible for the destruction. However the land is maintained by the City and County of Swansea. In Swansea heritage is only heritage if it is in the right place for the Council. If it is in an inconvenient location it becomes a 'structure' to be disposed of. Local residents have interpreted this destruction as preparation for private sector redevelopment as part of the Swansea Bay Strategy.
Before...
After...
1903 Street Map of Swansea
A very nice PDF map of town that blows up very large. Also includes the Swansea Corporation landholdings tinted pink and blue.
St Helen's School, Sandfields, Swansea
A PDF copy of N. L. Thomas' wonderful Centenary Booklet. 100 pages.
A Dick German cartoon from 1908 making fun of the water quality from Cray Reservoir... it was either muddy or had tadpoles!
Picture Essay: Swansea Marina in 1981
  
Swansea Food Adulteration
A letter written by Clarence Seyler...
Swansea
Tithe Plan 1838
Click on the plan to go to the right sub-sheet...
Swansea
Tithe Plan plate 3
Covering
Hendrefoilan, Sketty. University, Singleton etc.
SHW
Audio:
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Percy
Thomas, the Guildhall and the Vikings
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Duration:
5 mins 18s
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The
design of the 1930 Guildhall, the origins of the design,
and its unique place in Swansea's history.
A
Swansea Springboard story.
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The
Round School on the hill
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Duration:
4 mins 23s
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Ernest
Morgan and the building of the most unusual school in
pre-war Swansea.
A
Swansea Springboard story.
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Opening
the Plaza in 1931:
The
original souvenir brochure
Spanker:
Swansea's most famous horse
Swansea's
Blitz of February 1941
The
Diary of William George Bladen. The most vivid eyewitness
description of the events of the third night of the Swansea
Blitz. (PDF eBook)
Swansea's
Old Guildhall
A
plan of the 1847 rebuilding:
Swansea
Harbour Trust Plan
A
plan of the docks and surrounding streets from 1899. Predates
the King's and Queen's Docks.
The
Post-War Reconstruction of Central Swansea
A
full-size coloured version of the original plan...with all the
roundabouts and boulevards that were promised but never built!
Closing
Swansea's First Dock
A
Property ownership plan from 1925
End
of the road for the Slip Bridge?
Our
Slip Bridge has now been stuck in a strange place on the promenade,but
the Slip remains one of the most significant parts of the beach.
We can only hope that the repairs and redevelopments are sensitive
and careful. More
about the Slip and the beach.
'Open
Pages'
Contents/Sitemap
You
will find our content listed on these open access pages.
Some
free sample pages from the subscription area
Free PDF thumbnail views:
Port Sheets; World
War 1 Cartoons; Brangwyn
Panels/Guildhall opening 1934
The
Castle Street Bomb, 21 February 1941
The
full War Diary report:
A wander around
Dylan Thomas' Swansea without leaving your comfy computer!
1.
Swansea's Old Guildhall;
2. Gloucester Place and the Queen's; 3.
Royal Institution of South Wales (Swansea Museum); 4.
Wind Street; 5. Salubrious
Passage; 6. The lane
down to the Cornish Mount; 7.
Castle Square; 8. The Mountain Dew;
9. Swansea Central Police Station;
10. The Bush; 11.
The No.10 pub
The
1830 OS map of Swansea (Large extract)
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There's a growing campaign to apply for World Heritage Status for what's left in the Lower Swansea Valley. here's the original leaflet...
Picture Essay 2: Bollards
Civil Defence:
History of Old Wind Street
A PDF of 10 pages of Wind Street history written by W H Jones for the Cambria Daily Leader in 1927-8
Harry Williams in 1908
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of the links from our navigation pages are now password protected.
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list:
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information is here
1" to 1 Mile map of western Swansea,
Abernethy, James, Acts
of Parliament, Airport,
Air war over South Wales, Air
Raids Full Lists, Air Raids in 1940,
Air Raids in 1941,
American soldiers in Swansea,
Anchor Court, BBC
Kitchen Front script, Ben
Evans, Board of Health
Plan symbols, Bombing
map of Swansea, Borough
Police Force, Borough
Fire Brigade, Bacon's
Street Map (northern part of Swansea), Blitz,
Brangwyn Panels, Bristol
Channel U-boats, Bristol Channel
Mine War, Brunel in Swansea,
C & A Modes Swansea, Castle
Street Bomb, Castle Square, Cavell,
Edith, Census Basics,
Charter of William de Newburgh,
Chemical and gas warfare, Child
Labour, Cholera,
Cholera Chronology,
Cholera in Merthyr, Cholera
in Cardiff, Cholera consequences,
City Status, Common
Land in Gower, Copper
Smoke Trials of 1832, Cornish
Mount, Cottage Exhibition
of 1910, Courtney Street, Curtiss,
Danny, Cyfarthfa Ironworks,
Docks Plan, Duke
Hotel, Wind Street, Dylan
Thomas Centre, Early attitudes to rubbish
and sewage, Early housing,
Early Quays and Docks,
East Dock, Early
bridges, Early Electricity,
Early Postcards, Early
roads in South Wales, Early
U boat operations, Fairwood Common,
Ferryside, Food
Adulteration in Victorian Swansea, Gabriel
Powell, Glamorgan Portway, Gloucester
Place, Great War Cartoons
(ePamphlet), Great
War Cartoons, Greenhill,
Greenhill in the 1830s, Guildhall
Opening, Hafod Mission, Harris,
James, Hearth Tax
Returns, The Hecla
and yellow fever, Helwick Lightship,
Henrietta Street, Hill
House in Swansea, Hospital
Square Bomb 1943, Jackson's Bridge
in Merthyr, Incinerator, Iron
industry, Jeffreys, Molly (Dunvant),
KG2, Kampfgruppe
100, Keystages, Kings
Dock opening 1909; Landore,
Lang-Coath, Howell Lang (Town Clerk and ARP Controller), Luftwaffe
Air Operations, 1940, Luftwaffe
Air operations 1941-43, Luftwaffe targets
in Swansea, Manselton,
Map of the Town Centre 1880s,
Medieval Lanes in Wind Street,
Mountain Dew, Terrace Road, Mount
Pleasant in Swansea, Mount
Pleasant Hospital, Molly
Jeffreys at the Ministry, Mr
Padley of Swansea, New Street, No.10
Pub,Old Guildhall,
Old Guildhall (Dylan Thomas
Centre) 1847 plan , Operation
Bolero, Pegler Street,
Plaza opening in 1931, Port
Tennant in 1827, Port
Tennant in c.1900, Postcards,
Powell, Gabriel, Prince
of Wales Dock, Queen's
Hotel Gloucester Place, Rationing
in wartime, Reading
about Swansea, Recorder Street,
Roman finds in Swansea, Royal
Institution, Rubbish
and Sewage, Sandfields
area of Swansea, Salubrious
Passage, Seyler,
Clarence and Food Adulteration, Seyler
and gas warfare,Sheet 37 1830 OS plan,
Smuggling in Gower sketch
map; Swansea ablaze in the Blitz,
South Wales Ports at War, Spanker
(Swansea Corporation horse), Stagecoaches
between Cardiff and Swansea, Swansea
Jack, Swansea in the Blitz, Swansea's
Industries in 1908, Swansea's Catherine
Zeta Jones, Swansea's
Garden City, Swansea
Museum, Swansea Slip, Swansea's
sewerage problems, Swansea's
Osprey, Sweyn the Viking,
Swansea's waterworks and reservoirs,
Swansea's Main Drainage Scheme, Thomas,
Edward, The Last Sheaf 1928, The
western area of Swansea in the 1830s, The
Sandfields area of Swansea from the Swansea Tithe plan,
Tithe Survey of Swansea, Trade
Directories, Town
Hill Enclosure Act of 1762,Town Hill Enclosure Award; U28,
U-boats, US
Army Units, Union Workhouses,
Victorian shopping in
Mount Pleasant, Vivian,
John Henry ,Yellow
fever, Zeta,
1938 Air Raid Guide, 1850s
water closet, 1880s water closet,
1908 Industry (plan), 1830
OS Plan of Swansea, 1920s
pen picture of Swansea
The
Guildhall Commemorative Brochure from 1934 (includes a colour
plate of the Brangwyn panels)
Click
here to look at a thumbnail view of the brochure
Full
pdf copy of Eye of the Eagle 1 (2.91MB)
Explaining
the origins of tithe, tithe commutation, Swansea's tithe survey,
Swansea in 1838. A4 size, 22 pages (Adobe
PDF eBook 1st edn.):
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