Photos of Mumbles Coastguard
Mumbles Coastguard Station at Tutt Head
The ‘new’ Coastguard Station Lookout. Constructed in 1970.
The Station was extended in 1979 and closed in 2015. Later used as offices and stores. The theft of lead from the roof complicated closure plans
The inside of the old Coastguard Hut at Tutt Head, in the 1960s, (corrected) overlooking the Signal Room,. Photo: John Pile.
A general view of the Bracelet Bay car park in the 1950s, including the old Coastguard Hut and wartime Signal Room as well as the Engine Room, which powered the WW2 naval searchlights, which guarded the sea.
The old Coastguard Station at Tutt Head, taken from Mumbles Hill, including the wartime Signal Room.
Postwar view of Coastguard Station at Tutt Head, Mumbles. A similar view of the Tutt is shown below.
The general view, in front of the Coastguard lookout, Tutt Head, overlooking Limeslade Bay, includes Mike Richards, with his parents and sister in the 1950s. Photo: Mike Richards.
The closer views shows a machine gun pillbox in the background, used for defence of the area, during WW2. This is shown being demolished in the next photo in this post. A second Pillbox can be glimpsed on the left of the earlier photo and both are recorded on the hand drawn wartime map. Photo: Mike Richards
Bracelet Bay and Tutt Head old Coastguard Station. The car park and the road iare overwhelmed with cars this photo, taken in the 1950s,. Overlooking Bracelet and Limeslade Bays >
A closer look at Tutt Head, reveals The WRENS wartime accommodation as well as the two Searchlight Emplacements, later demolished, Photo: 1950s.
The WW2 WRENS Hut, when being used as accommodation for those who were bombed out in The Swansea Blitz. Later the site of Castellammare Restaurant (Now The Lighthouse Bistro). Photo C.1950.
The base of a WW2 Naval searchlight emplacement, one of two at The Tutt. With Mumbles Lighthouse Island in the background, which also had two similar emplacements. More: The Guns of Mumbles Lighthouse Island >
The base of one of the two Naval searchlight emplacements at The Tutt, Bracelet Bay. More: The Guns of Mumbles Lighthouse Island >
Later Developments
Coastguard Lifesaving Apparatus Crew (LSA) 1919.
Mumbles LSA at Practice, 1919.
Coastguard Cottages, a modern view
A modern google satellite view of the former Coastguard Station cottages
Mumbles Coastguard Lookout on the hill
The old Mermaid Hotel, Southend Mumbles, c.1870.
A glimpse of a flagpole can just be made out on the hill. This was the site of the first Mumbles Coastguard lookout, which used an overturned boat as a shelter.
An anchor point for the first Coastguard flagpole
More: I served in the WRNS at Tutt Head >
and : The Guns of Mumbles Head >
The old Coastguard Station at Tutt Head, taken from Mumbles Hill, including the wartime Signal Room.
Postwar view of Coastguard Station at Tutt Head, Mumbles. A similar view of the Tutt is shown below.
Barometer
In November 2003, there was a Barometer situated in the wall outside The Bristol Chanel Yacht Club, Southend, with a Post Box alongside.
Barometer: measures atmospheric pressure, used in forecasting the weather.
Ronald Studden posted this photo of a Lookout, which may have been sited overlooking Clement's Quarry, Mumbles.
More information welcomed.
Everyday Life on Mumbles Coastguard Station 1930 & 1940s
by Bet Ogbourne & Pat Symmons
I served in the WRNS at Mumbles Coastguard Station
Mrs Joan Jones served in the WRNS at The Naval Signal Station at The Tutt, Bracelet Bay, Mumbles.
Mumbles Hill, A Ramble Through Time
by Carol Powell M.A.
Cricket, Tea and Tragedy on the Mixon Sands
by Carol Powell M.A.
A collection of three Memories:- Peter Dover-Wade said, 'I remember well the night of the storm and that on hearing of the tragedy, my friend and I, both sixteen ...'
