Books by Carol Powell
A POPULAR BOOK
Great-grandmas' Mumbles
Tells the stories of women's lives in the village from the 1890s to the 1920s, a time of immense social change
Available from
Cover-to-Cover
Newton Road, Mumbles
This very popular book is now available again and will be a popular stocking filler
Law and Postal Order
This title book is now published on 'A History of Mumbles' :-
Everyday Life in the Police Service
Under development, work in hand
Set in Mumbles, tells the stories of the lives of the local policemen and post office staff working in the village and parish of Oystermouth during a century of prodigious change from the 1850s to the 1950s.
The print version is available from Swansea Library Service
The section on the Police explores who they were, where they lived and worked, what they wore, their pay, the use of police boxes, the wide variety of their duties from dealing with tragedies, thefts, drunkenness, traffic offences and attending inquests, their role as firemen between the wars through to crowd control at Royal visits, regattas and their awards.
The Post Office chapter describes the changing whereabouts of the various post offices, the sub-postmasters/mistresses, staff, post boxes, times of collections and deliveries, prices of merchandise, the advent of the old age pension and the introduction of the 'Separation Allowance' payment, plus the commencement of the telegraph and telephone services.
The book is out of print but is usually available from Swansea Library Service
Nine Years of Village Life'
historian, Carol Powell's latest book
This is the story of the Mumbles area during those years as it seeks to recreate the sights, smells and sounds known to the people, ancestors to some of us, living here then.
NOW OUT OF PRINT
The book is out of print but is usually available from Swansea Library Service