NEW  Nurse Lloyd had been caught in a strong current while swimming near the old waterworks Nurse Henrietta Lloyd, Mumbles’ first trained midwife, founded a mother & baby clinic and mother-craft classes in its schools. Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee as celebrated in Mumbles
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NEW The cemetery was tucked away in a secluded spot in the valley between Newton and West Cross at Callencroft.  NEW In the 1950s, nature had designed a large 'bathing pool' between the mainland and the Middle Island, which attracted many families
Includes paddle-boarding on the Mixon Sandbank, Bracelet Bay NEW Tom the Fiddler His selection of ribald songs could always be commanded for the price of a pint of beer. His fiddle, was ever at the service of those who, in addition to supplying him with liquor, would also give him money. NEW Bidding
Weddings NEW This is the story of a lost house, those who lived in its environs and the ongoing work by Paul and Linda Griffiths to restore The Dingle, its rediscovered garden, so that it will once again return to its former splendour.  Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
as celebrated in Mumbles In 2011 Mumbles saw a Royal marriage, but also the centenary of the coronation of William’s Great-great grandparents, King George V and Queen Mary  The 14 strong crew of the Mumbles lifeboat the James Stevens went to the aid of the S.S. Christina off Port Talbot, during a south-westerly gale.  The 60th Anniversary of the Loss of he Mumbles Lifeboat On 23rd April 1947 the entire lifeboat crew of eight were lost whilst going to the aid of a British steamer, S.S. Samtampa, which had been driven onto the rocks.  The church is first mentioned in 1141. But there may well have been a church in the area before the Anglo-Normans established their castle in the twelfth century. Some of the families living in the nineteenth-century village had been there for centuries  It was considered necessary to have another entrance to the gardens for the scavengers and night soil men. You can’t please all of the people all of the time! Prior to the Great War, there were protests because the Council had tarred the roads and wanted the public to pay for street lighting and the changes concerning drinking on a Sunday.  'It is a very remarkable circumstance, Sir that poverty and oysters always seem to go together.'  The work was carriied out by members of the Ministry’s staff based in Neath Abbey and a number of students of the University of Wales.
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INFORMATION PLEASE We would welcome information and memories concerning the Mumbles area. Our research includes the area  On 25 March 1807, Swansea took her place in History with the inauguration of the world’s first passenger railway. The carriage, wound its way to its destination at Castle Hill (near the present-day Clements Quarry) The shoreline was completely altered by the railway extension to Pier and the Horsepool was gone forever
A series of fish traps or weirs stretched across the bay from Blackpill to Mumbles, known locally as 'The Nets'.
 Since 17C, many Mumbles fishermen would lay up their craft at the Horsepool, a natural haven.
A Vanished Landmark
A Victorian Landmark in twenty-first century Mumbles.
Down the years, many thousands of people have had occasion to use the Station office, whether to buy tickets, ask for information or hire a taxi.
Now submerged in the Bay and extending as far as the Green Grounds, formerly belonged to the Angel family.
A Vanished Landmark  Mumbles people all recognise the now-neglected landmark fountain near the Rugby Club, but perhaps not many realise its original purpose.  Voluntary aid was supplied by Members of the local VAD and Ladies of the neighbourhood   Includes Schools, Alehouses, Banks, Butchers, Cafes, Chemists, Grocers, Police Boxes and more INFORMATION PLEASE We would welcome information and memories concerning the Mumbles area. Our research includes the area |
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