Mumbles Fort
The women of Mumbles Head: the story by Carol Powell >
... The two women involved, Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright, were the daughters of the lighthouse keeper, Abraham Ace.
Overtaken by the Tide - October 1886 by Kate Jones
'On the lighthouse island Keeper Abraham Ace watched a darkly-clad man picking his way across the sounds from the mainland. The main was his assistant, William Walkey, and the tide was coming in . .
Mumbles Lighthouse - Captured in Time
... 28 June 2013, Unveiled after a long period undergoing maintenance
The Headland, after 1929
My Life at Mumbles Coastguard Station by John Jeffers
... or the tide to go into Swansea docks. In about 1936 when the Mumbles lighthouse light went automatic the Coastguard in the lookout on Tutt Hill operated the light house ...
A Later view
My Story: Extracts from the autobiography of Esther May Flowers Edwards
... to go on and we knew we were doing wrong. We went on the lighthouse and saw one of the Eynons, who showed us how the lighthouse worked.
Amy Dillwyn, Frances Havergal and Morfydd Owen by Gary Gregor
... ships with all sails up entering Swansea harbour, and was interested to visit Mumbles Lighthouse and speak with the lighthouse keeper.
Before the fort, 1814
by Daniell, WilliamThe Mumbles Lifeboat and Lighthouse In the Nineteenth Century
... a large ship, the 'Admiral Prinz Adalbert', was thrown onto the rocks of the lighthouse island. The lifeboat went to her aid but was capsized three times, Jenkin Jenkins lost ...