Norton
Editors Note: West Cross developed during the 20th Century and before that time, according to the censuses, houses now designated as West Cross would have been addressed: Norton, Blackpill or Mayals.
WHERE IS NORTON
Two examples below of how the boundary between Norton and West Cross has changed, is shown in the two photos below, when in an earlier generation, both businesses may have been said to be situated in Norton.
Prospect Terrace, off Glen Road, Norton, was demolished, and survives in this painting, from a private collection, RA
In the 1990s
By Wendy Cope
This elegant house was built in 1790 to a high standard. The outer walls were finished in Bath stone, the beautiful staircase was made of walnut, the ceilings were decorated by Italian craftsmen, a secret place was hidden behind one of the corner cupboards in the library and under the courtyard is an iron stair leading to an underground room and passage which, it was rumoured, led to Oystermouth castle.
by Wendy Cope
On the corner of Mumbles Road and Norton Road is a terrace of three houses which were built as gentlemen’s residences and were let on a 99 year lease from November 1855. In June 1856 William Jordan opened one of them as a lodging house offering warm and cold sea water baths. Warm baths cost 1s 6d., cold water baths and showers cost 6d.
.. Cromwellian Survey of the properties in the Mannor [sic] of Oystermouth, noted that at Norton, Richard Hamon paid 4d per year for a weare to the Earl of Worcester (ancestor ..
.. from Carrizal Bajo to Swansea in 1877. DAVID JONES, who lived at Forgefield Terrace, Norton and was eventually father to five children, made at least six voyages around the Horn ...
by Edith E Robinson
My grandmother was very involved in the Norton Mission church, known locally as the ‘tin cathedral’ and worshipped there regularly. But I can also remember her taking part in an open-air service on the Cross by the Beaufort Inn. In this way the Norton community continued to remember the way they had worshipped before the building of the ‘tin cathedral’.
PREHISTORIC TRACKWAY Working off the foreshore between Norton and Oystermouth, during February 2012, a group from the Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust consisting of both professionals and volunteers, excavated the remains ...
Until 1826, when the Swansea to Oystermouth turnpike road opened, Mumbles had no road access around the bay to Swansea, and hitherto reached only on foot across the sands, by boat or, from 1807 via the world's first passenger railway, which ran Castle Hill in Mumbles (opposite today's Quarry car park).
They lived in yonder house close to the shore (the first house after leaving Norton for Swansea) and during the winter, when the waves rolled over the protecting wall and ... The Story of the Misses Angels and Their Farm
by Carol Powell M.A.
.. river in Blackpill in the east. Within it were separate hamlets of Mumbles, Newton, Norton and Blackpill surrounded by fields.
Bethany Baptist Church
... the ‘Roman’ bridge, and in September 1850, the new cause was established at Bethany, Norton. It has been suggested that the site at Norton was chosen because it lay half ...
.. in the 1890s, the railway track was diverted along the shore from Blackpill to Norton instead of running at the road-side as it had been. In doing so, the ...
... of the anti-tank blocks, which extended intermittently along the shore, from Blackpill to Norton. Castle Acre - air-raid shelters, which were dark and damp and ideal to explore. Underhill ...
