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Topic List
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
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1.Wales
in industrial Britain c.1760-1914
The
Cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century and their impact on
South Wales.
A
review of the causes and consequences of cholera with specific examples
from Cardiff, Merthyr,
and Swansea. With an
exploration of housing,
water, and public
health issues from the local area.
Or
if you want to go straight to the bottom line look at the consequences
of cholera
The
early iron industry in Wales. A look at how
iron is made, how the industry developed, and the effects on Welsh
landscape and society.
[ Resources
page ] [ Child labour at a Swansea copperworks ]
[ Children in the iron industry 1841 ]
[ Children in the iron industry (2) 1841 ]
[ Children in the coal mines ][
The early Welsh iron industry]
Swansea
Borough Police Force 1835 to 1968.
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2.
Victorian Housing
A
review of the evolution of
housing in nineteenth century Wales with specific
examples from Swansea. Including the evolution of terraced houses
and the development of council
housing after the First World War.
Investigates
housing shapes with examples of the different kinds of housing in
South Wales and how to use maps in studying the local area.
Uses
the particular example of the South
Wales Cottage Exhibition of 1910 where model cottages for working
people were erected on Mayhill in Swansea.
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3.
Living conditions in industrial Wales
The
Port of Swansea. The history and growth of the port with examples
of important documents relating
to the growth of the port. Highlights the roles of important individuals
in creating the port, such as Gabriel
Powell, Isambard Kingdom
Brunel, and Thomas Page.
Provides background to the
industrial revolution in the Swansea Valley.
[ Home
Page ] [ Reading about the Port of Swansea ]
[ Swansea Harbour in 1771 ]
[ Swansea's South Dock (c.1870s) ]
[ Swansea's South Dock (c. 1880s) ]
[ Swansea Docks in 1881 ]
[ Brunel's report for Swansea Docks 1846 ]
[ 2. Charter of William de Newburgh ]
[ 6. A Royal Charter ]
[ 9. Trade In The Early Port ]
[ 10. A port Indenture of 1135 ]
[ 11. Salt A vital commodity ]
[ 12. Swansea's Layer Keeper ]
[ 12a. Early Quays and Docks ]
[ 14. The Uncrowned King Of Swansea ]
[ 15. Swansea in the 1790s ]
[ 16. After Gabriel ]
[ 17. 1790s Swansea;The Time For Change ]
[ 17a. Smuggling in Swansea and Gower ]
[Smuggling in Gower sketch
map] [ 18. The Harbour Act and the Mumbles Lighthouse ]
[ 19. Port Tennant ]
[ Port Tennant in 1827 ]
[ 20. Port Development. A Chronology ]
[ 21. The South Wales ports ]
[ 21a. The port in the 1840s. ]
[ 22. Joseph Rutter's pamphlet of 1843 ]
[ 25. Thomas Page's report of 1846. ]
[ 27. John Henry Vivian ]
[ 29. The East Dock ]
[ 30. The Prince of Wales opens the East Dock ]
[ The Helwick Lightvessel ]
[ James Harris, Swansea seascape painter ]
[ Jack's World: Swansea North Dock in the 1880s ]
[ Mr Padley of Swansea ]
[ Plan of the Prince of Wales Dock ]
[ Who put the 'Sweyn' in Swansea? ]
[ Swansea's first tugs ]
[ The Victorian port of Swansea ][The
Chariot of Progress in 1909]
[ Bute West Dock - A chronology ]
[ What was Cardiff's trade and industry like before the Bute Dock was built? ]
[ Why was there a need for a new dock in Cardiff? ]
[ What was transport like around Cardiff in the early 1800s? ]
[ The Second Marquess of Bute ]
[ What did the Bute dock do? ]
[ Was there opposition to the Bute Dock scheme? ]
[ What were the consequences of building the Bute Dock? ]
[ What was trade and industry like after the dock was built? ]
[ Bute Dock - Vocabulary and Definitions ]
[ Resources
page ] [ Child labour at a Swansea copperworks ]
[ Children in the iron industry 1841 ]
[ Children in the iron industry (2) 1841 ]
[ Children in the coal mines ][
The early Welsh iron industry]
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4.
Local Industry and the world of work
Child
labour in South Wales in the nineteenth century, with examples
from the local copper, coal and iron industries.
5.
Changes in the Welsh landscape
The
tithe commutation survey
and a local Enclosure
Act. Bathing in Swansea
Bay. The development
of roads across South Wales including the Turnpike Trusts.
[ Up ] [ The Glamorgan Portway ] [ The arrival of the stagecoach ] [ The development of the Turnpike Trust ]
6.
Poverty in Wales in the nineteenth century
The
Victorian Poor Law and workhouses. Looking at the Swansea
workhouse.
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7.
A key Welsh entrepreneur
John
Henry Vivian and the Copper Industry.
8.
Wales, and Britain in the Medieval World, Frontiers, Charters and
privileges
The
Charter of William de Newburgh
to the Burgesses of Swansea. The William
de Braose Charter of 1305. The
foundation of Swansea as a Viking settlement.
9.
Significant local buildings or structures
Swansea
Slip. Swansea Workhouse.
Bute West Dock. Hirwaun
Ironworks, Dowlais Ironworks
(Merthyr), Plymouth Ironworks
(Merthyr), Penydarren Ironworks
(Merthyr), Swansea's New Guildhall,
1934.
[ Bute West Dock - A chronology ]
[ What was Cardiff's trade and industry like before the Bute Dock was built? ]
[ Why was there a need for a new dock in Cardiff? ]
[ What was transport like around Cardiff in the early 1800s? ]
[ The Second Marquess of Bute ]
[ What did the Bute dock do? ]
[ Was there opposition to the Bute Dock scheme? ]
[ What were the consequences of building the Bute Dock? ]
[ What was trade and industry like after the dock was built? ]
[ Bute Dock - Vocabulary and Definitions ]
[ Early bathing in Swansea Bay ]
[ The Slip emerges ]
[ Swansea Slip : the place to be... ]
[ Swansea Slip: The place to be (continued) ]
[ Swansea Slip:decline and fall ]
[ Swansea Slip: Cleaning up the act ]
[ Swansea Bay : The cleanup starts here ]
[ Building a bridge at Swansea Slip ]
[ The Swansea Slip Bridge ]
[ Bert and Dick at the Beach ]
[ Early Swansea sewerage schemes ]
[ Swansea's Main Drainage Scheme ]
[ Swansea's Main Drainage Scheme (Continued) ]
[ A Map of Swansea's Main Drainage Scheme ]
[ Swansea's sewerage system under Mumbles Head ]
[ The Mumbles Head sewer outfall ]
[ Slip Statistics ]
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10.
The Twentieth Century World
Swansea
Newspaper Cartoons from the early 1900s
[ Dick and Bert. Swansea newspaper cartoons from the early 1900s ]
[Competitions and Adverts] [ The Great War ]
[The Great War (continued)][Swansea's
Christmas Imp!] [ Swansea's Christmas Imp (continued) ]
[ Chasing the Germans, Christmas 1914 ]
[ The Imp goes up in the world ]
[ The biggest Imp ]
[ Exploding out of a box in 1913 ]
[ Christmas 1914 ]
[ The Imp at Sea ] Strikes and Strife
Wales
at War
The South Wales ports
at War. U-boats
in the Bristol Channel. Food
and Rationing in World War Two. Swansea
Blitz in colour. The air
war over Wales.
The
Air War and bombing of Welsh cities
[Evidence: Objects Dropped From The air (1943); Evidence:
The Air Attack on Swansea:The Controller's Statement to the County Borough Council][Evidence:
The 1939 Air Raid Pamphlet][The Luftwaffe
1kg incendiary bomb][The
Castle Street Bomb, February 1941] [The
Hospital Square Bomb, 1943] [Luftwaffe
photo of Swansea, 1940][Gas and chemical
warfare] [Preparing a Refuge Room][Bombing
Accuracy in the 1940s (or why Swansea burned)] [Evidence:
The 1938 Air Raid Guide] [ The Air War over South Wales ]
[ Douhet, Trenchard and the 'Moral Effect' of bombing ]
[ Dr Robert Knauss and German air war doctrine ]
[ The Spanish Civil War and the Condor Legion ]
[ The Blitz on Britain ]
[ Luftwaffe Air Operations Over Swansea in 1940 ]
[Prior Warning:Enigma, KGr100 and Swansea
Blitz] [ Luftwaffe Operations over Swansea 1941 to 1943 ]
[ Growing up during the Swansea Blitz. Peter Dover-Wade's wartime experience ]
[Swansea's Blitz in
colour] [ Swansea Blitz (Swansea ablaze) ]
[ Swansea Blitz (Ben Evans Store) ]
[ Swansea Blitz (Ben Evans smoulders) ]
[ Swansea Blitz (Further damage) ]
[ Swansea Blitz (General damage) ]
[ Swansea Blitz (Temple Street) ]
[ Bomb Type ]
[ Eye of the Eagle. The Luftwaffe aerial photographs of Swansea ]
[ Luftwaffe Targets in Swansea ]
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Molly
at the Ministry
How
a Welsh housewife helped to shape food and rationing policy at the
Ministry of Food in 1942.
[ Molly at the Ministry of Food ]
[ Molly in the press ]
[ Shopping in London ]
[ Taking tea at the Ministry ]
[Molly's first 'Kitchen Front' Script]
Operation
Bolero and US soldiers in South Wales.
Pollution
in Swansea Bay.
Swansea
Jack.
The
Swansea Cottage Exhibition of 1910
U-Boats
in the Bristol Channel
[ The South Wales Ports at War 1939-41 ]
[ The Welsh ports in the frontline of the War in 1941 ]
[ Wartime problems at the Welsh ports 1940-41 ]
[ A background to U-boat operations in the Bristol Channel ]
[ The extension of U-boat operations 1939-40 ]
[ The U-boats move to the Atlantic ]
[ U-boats that entered the Bristol Channel ]
[ The U-boat Inshore Campaign in the Bristol Channel 1944-45 ]
[ Types of U-boat ]
[ The mine war in the Bristol Channel 1939-41 ]
[ Later developments in the mine war in the Bristol Channel ]
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11.
General Stuff
[Home Page] [Dylan
Thomas Trail] [ Teachers and Students guide ]
[Recommended Reading] [Microhistories]
[ Articles ] [Basics:
The Census] [Basics: Hearth Tax Returns][ Operation Bolero ]
[ Swansea's Blitz in colour ] [ Cholera - an introduction ]
[ Cardiff History Web ] [ Early Iron Industry in Wales ]
[ Early housing in Swansea ] [ Union Workhouses; an introduction ]
[ Swansea Jack ] [Board
of Health Plan symbols] [ Swansea's earliest local Acts of Parliament ]
[Swansea Borough Police] [ Molly at the Kitchen Front ]
[ Features ] [ Resources ]
[ See you at the Slip ! ] [ Swansea's Christmas Imp! ]
[ Swansea and the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 ]
[Early electricity in Swansea] [ The History of Swansea Basic Reading ]
[ The port of Swansea ] [ The U-boat Campaigns in the Bristol Channel 1939-45 ]
[ Site Guide ] [ Contact us at Swansea History Web ]
[ About Swansea History Web ]
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A range of
pages covering the establishment of the port in the 1100s, items about the
port and its operation, and the growth of the victorian port in the nineteenth
century.
[ Home
Page ] [ Reading about the Port of Swansea ]
[ Swansea Harbour in 1771 ]
[ Swansea's South Dock (c.1870s) ]
[ Swansea's South Dock (c. 1880s) ]
[ Swansea Docks in 1881 ]
[ Brunel's report for Swansea Docks 1846 ]
[ 2. Charter of William de Newburgh ]
[ 6. A Royal Charter ]
[ 9. Trade In The Early Port ]
[ 10. A port Indenture of 1135 ]
[ 11. Salt A vital commodity ]
[ 12. Swansea's Layer Keeper ]
[ 12a. Early Quays and Docks ]
[ 14. The Uncrowned King Of Swansea ]
[ 15. Swansea in the 1790s ]
[ 16. After Gabriel ]
[ 17. 1790s Swansea;The Time For Change ]
[ 17a. Smuggling in Swansea and Gower ]
[Smuggling in Gower sketch
map] [ 18. The Harbour Act and the Mumbles Lighthouse ]
[ 19. Port Tennant ]
[ Port Tennant in 1827 ]
[ 20. Port Development. A Chronology ]
[ 21. The South Wales ports ]
[ 21a. The port in the 1840s. ]
[ 22. Joseph Rutter's pamphlet of 1843 ]
[ 25. Thomas Page's report of 1846. ]
[ 27. John Henry Vivian ]
[ 29. The East Dock ]
[ 30. The Prince of Wales opens the East Dock ]
[ The Helwick Lightvessel ]
[ James Harris, Swansea seascape painter ]
[ Jack's World: Swansea North Dock in the 1880s ]
[ Mr Padley of Swansea ]
[ Plan of the Prince of Wales Dock ]
[ Who put the 'Sweyn' in Swansea? ]
[ Swansea's first tugs ]
[ The Victorian port of Swansea ][The
Chariot of Progress in 1909]
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The Nineteenth
Century (1800 to 1900)
Cholera
in Wales
The events
and impacts of the cholera epidemics across South Wales in the 1830s and
1840s with specific reference to Swansea, Merthyr, and Cardiff.
Housing
in Swansea and South Wales
Swansea
is probably one of the best places in Wales to study the history of housing.
The
Poor Law
Dealing
with the poor in Victorian Swansea.
[ Workhouse changes 1834 to 1914 ]
[ The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act Unions ]
[ Workhouse conditions ]
[ The end of workhouses ]
[ Swansea Union Workhouse (later Mount Pleasant Hospital) ]
[ Swansea Union Workhouse - A block plan from the 1880s ]
[ Evidence: Signs of the workhouse ]
[ Swansea Union Workhouse - A nurse's duties in 1904 (1) ]
[ A Swansea Workhouse Christmas poem 1870 ]
Swansea
Slip
Swansea
Slip was the most famous meeting point for generations of townspeople.
Swansea's original holiday spot.
[ Early bathing in Swansea Bay ]
[ The Slip emerges ]
[ Swansea Slip : the place to be... ]
[ Swansea Slip: The place to be (continued) ]
[ Swansea Slip:decline and fall ]
[ Swansea Slip: Cleaning up the act ]
[ Swansea Bay : The cleanup starts here ]
[ Building a bridge at Swansea Slip ]
[ The Swansea Slip Bridge ]
[ Bert and Dick at the Beach ]
[ Early Swansea sewerage schemes ]
[ Swansea's Main Drainage Scheme ]
[ Swansea's Main Drainage Scheme (Continued) ]
[ A Map of Swansea's Main Drainage Scheme ]
[ Swansea's sewerage system under Mumbles Head ]
[ The Mumbles Head sewer outfall ]
[ Slip Statistics ]
Merthyr
and the Iron Industry
The history
of the early Welsh iron industry.
Cardiff
and the Bute Dock
The Bute
Dock transformed Cardiff and laid the foundation for the later success
of the city.
[ Bute West Dock - A chronology ]
[ What was Cardiff's trade and industry like before the Bute Dock was built? ]
[ Why was there a need for a new dock in Cardiff? ]
[ What was transport like around Cardiff in the early 1800s? ]
[ The Second Marquess of Bute ]
[ What did the Bute dock do? ]
[ Was there opposition to the Bute Dock scheme? ]
[ What were the consequences of building the Bute Dock? ]
[ What was trade and industry like after the dock was built? ]
[ Bute Dock - Vocabulary and Definitions ]
Glamorgan
Roads
[ Up ] [ The Glamorgan Portway ] [ The arrival of the stagecoach ] [ The development of the Turnpike Trust ]
Child
Labour
[ Resources
page ] [ Child labour at a Swansea copperworks ]
[ Children in the iron industry 1841 ]
[ Children in the iron industry (2) 1841 ]
[ Children in the coal mines ][
The early Welsh iron industry]
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The
early Twentieth Century (1900 to 1939)
Housing
in Swansea and South Wales
Swansea
Jack
[ Swansea memorials as a resource for history ]
[ Swansea Jack (continued) ]
[ A memorial for Swansea Jack ]
[Jack's World]
Cartoons
In the
early 1900s, Swansea newspapers were some of the best illustrated papers
in the country largely through the work of two very talented cartoonists.
[ Dick and Bert. Swansea newspaper cartoons from the early 1900s ]
[Competitions and Adverts] [ The Great War ]
[The Great War (continued)][Swansea's
Christmas Imp!] [ Swansea's Christmas Imp (continued) ]
[ Chasing the Germans, Christmas 1914 ]
[ The Imp goes up in the world ]
[ The biggest Imp ]
[ Exploding out of a box in 1913 ]
[ Christmas 1914 ]
[ The Imp at Sea ] Strikes and Strife
Swansea
Slip
[ Early bathing in Swansea Bay ]
[ The Slip emerges ]
[ Swansea Slip : the place to be... ]
[ Swansea Slip: The place to be (continued) ]
[ Swansea Slip:decline and fall ]
[ Swansea Slip: Cleaning up the act ]
[ Swansea Bay : The cleanup starts here ]
[ Building a bridge at Swansea Slip ]
[ The Swansea Slip Bridge ]
[ Bert and Dick at the Beach ]
[ Early Swansea sewerage schemes ]
[ Swansea's Main Drainage Scheme ]
[ Swansea's Main Drainage Scheme (Continued) ]
[ A Map of Swansea's Main Drainage Scheme ]
[ Swansea's sewerage system under Mumbles Head ]
[ The Mumbles Head sewer outfall ]
[ Slip Statistics ]
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World
War Two (1939-1945)
Blitz
and the air war over South Wales
The attacks
on the Welsh industrial towns with maps, photographs and explanations.
[Evidence: Objects Dropped From The air (1943); Evidence:
The Air Attack on Swansea:The Controller's Statement to the County Borough Council][Evidence:
The 1939 Air Raid Pamphlet][The Luftwaffe
1kg incendiary bomb][The
Castle Street Bomb, February 1941] [The
Hospital Square Bomb, 1943] [Luftwaffe
photo of Swansea, 1940][Gas and chemical
warfare] [Preparing a Refuge Room][Bombing
Accuracy in the 1940s (or why Swansea burned)] [Evidence:
The 1938 Air Raid Guide] [ The Air War over South Wales ]
[ Douhet, Trenchard and the 'Moral Effect' of bombing ]
[ Dr Robert Knauss and German air war doctrine ]
[ The Spanish Civil War and the Condor Legion ]
[ The Blitz on Britain ]
[ Luftwaffe Air Operations Over Swansea in 1940 ]
[Prior Warning:Enigma, KGr100 and Swansea
Blitz] [ Luftwaffe Operations over Swansea 1941 to 1943 ]
[ Growing up during the Swansea Blitz. Peter Dover-Wade's wartime experience ]
[Swansea's Blitz in
colour] [ Swansea Blitz (Swansea ablaze) ]
[ Swansea Blitz (Ben Evans Store) ]
[ Swansea Blitz (Ben Evans smoulders) ]
[ Swansea Blitz (Further damage) ]
[ Swansea Blitz (General damage) ]
[ Swansea Blitz (Temple Street) ]
[ Bomb Type ]
[ Eye of the Eagle. The Luftwaffe aerial photographs of Swansea ]
[ Luftwaffe Targets in Swansea ]
U-boats
in the Bristol Channel
The German
U boat offensive in the Bristol Channel and Irish Sea.
[ The South Wales Ports at War 1939-41 ]
[ The Welsh ports in the frontline of the War in 1941 ]
[ Wartime problems at the Welsh ports 1940-41 ]
[ A background to U-boat operations in the Bristol Channel ]
[ The extension of U-boat operations 1939-40 ]
[ The U-boats move to the Atlantic ]
[ U-boats that entered the Bristol Channel ]
[ The U-boat Inshore Campaign in the Bristol Channel 1944-45 ]
[ Types of U-boat ]
[ The mine war in the Bristol Channel 1939-41 ]
[ Later developments in the mine war in the Bristol Channel ]
[ Up ]
[ U 28 ]
[ U 29 ]
[ U 30 ]
[ U 32 ]
[ U 33 ]
[ U 34 ]
[ U 242 ]
[ U 247 ]
[ U 262 ]
[ U 281 ]
[ U 325 ]
[ U 413 ]
[ U 667 ]
[ U 714 ]
[ U 740 ]
[ U 758 ]
[ U 775 ]
[ U 825 ]
[ U 963 ]
[ U 1019 ]
[ U 1021 ]
[ U 1023 ]
[ U 1024 ]
[ U 1051 ]
[ U 1055 ]
[ U 1058 ]
[ U 1064 ]
[ U 1169 ]
[ U 1172 ]
[ U 1195 ]
[ U 1202 ]
[ U 1276 ]
[ U 1302 ]
Operation
Bolero: GIs in Swansea 1943-44.
[ Up ]
[ A plea for information... ]
[ LSTs entering Swansea Docks ]
[ Unloading P-47s, Kings Dock Swansea. ]
[ Operating in the port of Swansea ]
[ A GI remembers... ]
[ Bringing supplies into Swansea ]
[ US Army Units in and around Swansea ]
[ A GI weds his Swansea girl 1944. ]
Molly
at the Kitchen Front
The story
of how a Dunvant housewife helped win the war.
[ Molly at the Ministry of Food ]
[ Molly in the press ]
[ Shopping in London ]
[ Taking tea at the Ministry ]
[Molly's first 'Kitchen Front' Script]
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