Despite this, the oftencited view is that the name is of an earlier, viking origin sweynsey sweyns island. Swansea is the second largest city in wales after cardiff. There have been a great many important prehistoric finds on the gower peninsula, all evidence that the area was an important settlement as far back as 2000 bc. This alley leads to a street which has been known as salubrious place for centuries. The town of swansea disputes alone with cardiff the title of metropolis of wales, wrote wirt sykes, folklorist and united states consul at cardiff in 1883. It consists of the urban area centred on swansea city centre. There are over seventy named beaches in the swansea area. The following apologies for my silence post was made on this page on 25032014, just over two years ago, when i wrote. Colonel william llewelyn morgan a swansea historian of the late 19th century and early 20th suggested that the town ditch outside the medieval walls passed through this vicinity. The staff of the history department are not only leading scholars in their fields but also committed to teaching and public engagement. It has a number of restaurants, bars, museums and galleries to enjoy and is a popular place to go for a walk or jog. The history of swansea, wales covers a period of continuous occupation stretching back a thousand years, while there is archaeological evidence of prehistoric human occupation of the surrounding area for thousands of years before that swansea welsh. The areas surrounding swansea are renowned for bearing evidence of early man dating back to thousands of years, way be.
I want emails from lonely planet with travel and product information, promotions, advertisements, thirdparty offers, and surveys. Contrasting a selection of fortyfive archive images alongside modern photographs taken from the same location, this new book reveals the changing faces, buildings and streets of swansea during the last century. Pages in category history of swansea the following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. Here be dragons by sharon kay penman, falls the shadow by sharon kay penman, the reckoning by sharon kay penman, the mabino. Swansea has a rich, absorbing past, which is uniquely reflected in this delightful, fullcolour compilation. Whether or not swansea has viking origins as a settlement remains a vexed issue. Toponymical list of counties of the united kingdom. During the nineteenth century, it was a world centre for tinplate production, it smelted 90% of the worlds copper, and the town witnessed the creation of the now much sought after swansea porcelain. Pages in category novels set in wales the following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Swansea, welsh abertawe, county, southwestern wales, comprising the city of swansea as well as the entire peninsula of gower in the south and west, the lower valley of the river loughor in the northwest, and the foothills of black mountain in the north.
We work with museums, heritage bodies and the media, and our students benefit in a variety of different ways, being. Swansea photos, maps, books, memories francis frith. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet. Morningside church designed by john gemmell as it stood in 1915 before and in 2016 after. Rare books richard burton archives south wales miners library special collections history of computing collection. Books memories history old photos of swansea 85 available. List of places in swansea categorised list of places in torfaen. The book is self mocking and many readers will able to recognise themselves as teenagers, growing up and desperately seeking an identity. Our swansea the city gates car park is only a few minutes walk from the waterfront. The most notable fact about the citys history is that it has constantly attracted people from other nations for over a thousand years, both as conquering invaders or as immigrants. Salubrious place leading to salubrious passage and then wind street originally a small passageway between streets containing some small cottages and access to small courts that were eventually demolished in a slum clearance programme, it is now thought that salubrious passage was the southern most extremity of the medieval town. Unfortunately, the town also turned out to be the starting place of king philips war in.
The city of swansea, located at the south of wales, has rich and fascinating history. The city of swansea is situated on the southern side of the gower peninsula in wales and has a very long and varied history. Swansea city centre provides about 24,000 jobs, or about 18% of jobs in the wider urban area. The protagonist is an awkward but sensitive character who falls deeply in love with a girl named jordana. Dunthornes submarine is a comic novel that talks about the experience of growing up in the south wales city of swansea. The knight frank receivers will manage the development and deal directly with tenants. This includes those places where public gather such as museums and galleries, and as a result swansea museum is temporarily closed. Map of places in swansea compiled from this list see the list of places in wales for places in other principal areas. The first written evidence we have of a settlement here is based on records of viking forays in the swansea bay area during the 9th and 10th centuries.
Abertawe occupying a position at the mouth of the river tawe and adjacent to an extensive bay at the western end of the bristol channel. Waterstones swansea a second home to many of the booklovers of south wales. At one time the most powerful seaport in the world, swanseas historical heritage is as. The fourth town founded in bristol county, swansea originally extended from the boundaries of taunton and rehoboth to mount hope bay. Search the archive place listing photos by year galleries handpicked art photography. The history of swansea, south wales information britain.
Gower is a rolling plateau noted for its sandy beaches and scenic rocky cliffs. The place name of swansea is first recorded on coins dated to the 1140s, indicating the presence of a mint in swansea. Amongst the record series in this collection are workhouse creed registers, admission and discharge registers, registers of births, registers of. Read about the history of swansea and see specially. Laying tracks in 1917 at runnymede and bloor, in front of cibc now mcdonalds via toronto archives before and in 2017 continue reading swansea then and now. A timeline of the history of swansea local histories. For those seeking more adventure and tranquility there are some beaches that are only accessible on foot by trekking over cliffs or through farmland. History of monmouth and wales, volume 2 history of monmouth and wales, harry hayman cochrane. History of the guildhall the guildhall was opened on 23 october 1934, and was originally conceived as the answer to an acute accommodation problem in the former guildhall. Some of the larger beaches have seaside resort amenities and are easily accessible by road. Salubrious place is at the gateway to the main leisure strip along wind street in the old town area of swansea. Salubrious place swansea edition wales monopoly in. For all readers of this website, i must sincerely apologise for not having been able to update its pages, posts, photographs including the database and any other information for approximately the past year. The swansea and the surrounding area poor law union records, 18361916 records relate to the four poor law unions of west glamorgan, namely gower, neath includes aberavon, pontardawe and swansea.
Cambrian place is one of swanseas older streets, its architecture dating from 1821, running from the royal institution museum to the river tawe close proximity to the towns original proper dock the south dock, much later disused, filled in then later excavated and reborn in the 1980s as the citys marina quarter. Swansea has a rich history that extends from being a bronze age settlement to one of the largest coal ports in wales. This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the principal area of swansea, wales. It was about an investigator, who sets out to investigate some sort of strange happenings in wales with hinted ghost story underpinnings while dealing with recent deaths in. This is a low figure when compared to many other british cities, which often have around a quarter, a third or even more of their employment in the city centre. One of swanseas most famous sons, dylan thomas, was born in cwmdonkin drive and raised in uplands. The precise nature and location of this settlement are still disputed.
Indeed, swanseas name is thought to derive from the norse word swein. Swansea libraries members can download free ebooks, eaudiobooks. A story of miracle, memory, and colonialism in the middle ages, swansea gi. The peopling of swansea in the eighteenth century article in urban history 3201. It lies along the bristol channel at the mouth of the river tawe.
The literature that will make you want to visit wales. In line with government advice, swansea council is suspending many nonessential services from 18 march to help the community fight coronavirus. It is named after the location of a baptist meeting place near the ruins of the old trinity well, the site of a prereformation chapel, at ilston beck in gower near swansea. Swansea, city, swansea county, historic county of glamorgan morgannwg, southwestern wales. Salubrious means pleasant or luxurious, but here it may have been used ironically to describe a feature with the opposite qualities. Retail, hotel and restaurant jobs are strongly represented in swansea city centre, and there is a growing finance and business services. Early 12th century the normans conquer this part of wales and they build a castle at swansea. Parking for national waterfront museum and swansea museum. He worked for the south wales evening post and swansea was for him an ugly, lovely town, crawling, sprawling, slummed, unplanned, jerryvillaed and smugsuburbed by the side of a long and splendidly curving shore mixed feelings, but todays visitor can readily identify with these sentiments. Open book libraries we have many resources available in swansea libraries to help with research into family and local history.
History of computing collection swansea university. Books, events, gifts, cake and coffee in a beautiful art nouveau grade 2 listed. Swansea lies within the historic county boundaries of glamorgan and the ancient welsh commote of gwyr on the southwest coast. Coordinates the swansea urban area or swansea builtup area is an area of land in south wales, defined by the office for national statistics for population monitoring purposes it is an urban conurbation and is not coterminous with the city and county of swansea. The valleys of the rivers loughor and tawe broaden in their. History of swansea grand theatre since 1897, swanseas grand theatre has been providing the public with a broad range of cultural, artistic and general entertainment events.
Swansea marina and tawe basin is a calm relaxation area at the mouth of the river tawe. Swansea council services suspended from 18 march to help the community fight. In swanseas own lifestory, a history of ship building in the 14th century turned to considerably more delicate porcelain manufacture and followed by exhaustive oyster harvesting. Photos, maps, personal memories and local books of swansea. The ilston book is the earliest record of a baptist church in wales. Home swansea a brief history industry swansea has been described as one of the cradles of the industrial revolution. An illustrated history first edition by williams, glanmor isbn. Swansea the city gates car park prebook to save ncp. New book gives fascinating peek into swanseas history. Exploring the history of swansea and the surrounding area. Move the slider left or right to see the difference over a century makes. The history of swansea, wales covers a period of continuous occupation stretching back a. Swansea was established on october 30, 1667 when pastor john myles, captain thomas willett and their neighbors petitioned the court at plymouth to establish a town. Cannot remember the title or author for the life of me.
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