Mumbles Pier
After the Fire on Wednesday 31st August 2022.
A devastating fire at The Mumbles Pier when the Copperfish Restaurant as well as the old Cinderellas Disco were tottaly destroyed.
The Beach Hut cafe, amusement arcade and the pier itself, with The RNLI Station at its end, were all unaffected by the blaze and have re-opened to the public. Thankfully, there were no injuries concerning staff or the public.
Mumbles Pier was opened on 10th May 1898, along with an extension of the railway,from Oystermouth to Mumbles Head.
Mumbles Lifeboat Station - NEW & OLD The Mumbles Pier and RNLI Boathouse Captured in Time A photographic record of the changes to this iconic landmark from 2006
As well as the Mumbles Railway
The Changing Shoreline from 1870 until today by John Powell
The Mumbles Train travels to the Pier, 1903 The shoreline was completely altered by the extension of the railway to Southend. There are buildings on ...
... cap, who would ring a huge handbell to signal the train to leave the Pier. The other staff included two porters, Jim and Fred Martin and a van driver, Reg ...
A Victorian Landmark in twenty-first century Mumbles ...... and thence to the other part of the development—the new Pier. In the Edwardian era, the Station Master at Oystermouth Station was Bob Millard, .