Interesting Buildings collection

A collection of articles which features well-known 'old' buildings,

As well as: Points of interest, or a Focus of the area

1930 & 1940s

by Bet Ogborne and Pat Symmons

collection

Celebrating (over) Eighty Years

They are giving away free ice-cream

By Grafton Pearce Maggs

Tivoli Cinema, Mumbles

Going to The Tiv by Grafton Maggs >

Was our name for the Tivoli Cinema, now rede opted into the Oyster Wharf

Oyster Wharf Mumbles >

The redevelopment of the Tivoli Complex will change this part of Mumbles.

Nurse Henrietta Lloyd, Mumbles’ first trained midwife, founded a mother & baby clinic and mother-craft classes in its schools

by Anne Ardouin

Previously, the Mumbles Police Station


From Ship and Castle Hotel

to MCC and Apartments

at Southend, Mumbles

Visits to

at Southend

By Carol Powell

Visits to

By J. Tegman

at Promenade Terrace

by Elaine Symmons

Many people in Mumbles opened their homes to visitors in the summer months and we were no exception. My Mother, formerly Mrs Boss, had been widowed in the influenza epidemic which followed the Great War in 1919.

by Edna Davies

Before the big post-war building explosion, it was a ... which had been built in about 1630 and in front of it , the farm buildings.

The Mumbles Railway:

by Carol Powell M.A.

A Victorian Landmark in twenty-first century Mumbles, the old waiting room, was used as a Café in 2010

by Carol Powell M.A.

Mumbles people all recognise the now-neglected landmark fountain near the Rugby Club, but perhaps not many realise its original purpose. IAs clean drinking water was coming to be seen as an important priority in the battle for public health, a communal fountain was decided upon for a village that, as yet, had no proper water supplies.

Formerly known as Somerset House
by Jan McKechnie

The four Lifeboat Stations at Mumbles Pier

during the Great War

by Carol Powell MA

Voluntary aid was supplied by Members of the local VAD and Ladies of the neighbourhood

In the Nineteenth Century

by Carol Powell

NEW

By Wendy Cope and Carol Powell

An introduction to

by Brian E Davies

To illustrate the fascinating history of these old inns-