The Mount Pleasant Estate in Swansea
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(Left) Built by Bennett brothers in many phases between 1890
and 1910, the Mount Pleasant estate is a classic Victorian suburb. Laid out as a byelaw
gridiron, these tunnelback houses were primarily intended for the better off amongst the
working classes and the lower professional classes. The estate was originally well stocked
with corner shops, a Board School, Church and Chapel. More about
Mount Pleasant |
| No pub was ever intended, in direct contrast to
the Sandfields estate which was laid out some twenty years earlier and which had many. The
rolling relief of the site was totally ignored, the streets laid out regardless, which
explains the rather dramatic gradients of some of the streets including Cromwell Street
which has a steep hill known to generations of residents as the ‘big dipper’. At
the same time that these houses were being completed, the County Borough of Swansea was
putting the finishing touches to the early stages of the Mayhill/Townhill developments
which were a radical departure from the gridiron layouts of the speculative builders. |
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