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There were a great variety of educational establishments within the area, including several small, select private establishments.
This mysterious object, revealed offshore, has been the cause of much discussion Can you help?
by Grafton Maggs
High Tide Tonight! - Christmas in Mumbles - Going to the Tiv - The Games we played -The Saturday Tuppenny Tradition -They are giving away free ice-cream at Forte's - Village Schooldays
Kemp's was a fascinating shop, which sold everything one needed from soft furnishing to ladies' stockings.
''For a quiet and romantic retreat, give me the bluff headland of the Mumbles with the smooth sand and cosy bays of Langland and Caswell.”
What was more – such a trip could be accomplished by train!
by Kate Jones
''Where can there be a more pleasant trip than to the Mumbles. … ''
The original coach-house was converted into a new licensed restaurant
Begining life as a private residence, 'Llan-y-Llan Villa' changed into: Langland Bay Hotel, then Langland Bay Convalescent Home and is now Langland Manor Appartments
It's the Full Story, from the beginning -
by Carol Powell M.A.
by Carol Powell
The New Road to Bracelet Bay, through the 'Cutting' was completed in October 1888
by Carol Powell
The trees alongside this 'Cutting' were cut down, so as to erect a seawall to protect the coast path
137 years ago, 27th January 1883
Four members of the crew of the Mumbles Lifeboat ''Wolverhampton” lost their lives going to the assistance of the “Admiral Prinz Adalbert.“
The crew who lost their lives were; John Jenkins, William Jenkins, William MacNamara and William Rogers.
The Jenkins brothers were the sons of the coxswain Jenkins Jenkins and William MacNamara was his son in law .
Stephen Way
by Carol Powell
The memories of Muriel Schroter, who served in the ATS, at Mumbles & Swansea, as 'Private Muriel Hawkins 205907'
Mumbles United Comforts Fund and Correspondence Committee was formed, with the aims, ‘to let the lads and lasses know that Mumbles has not forgotten them, to give them some local news and to keep them informed with news of their pals.’
By Carol Powell
At one time, people could erect a row of several houses and give it a name of its own. But where were they?
More- The Back Lanes of Mumbles >
by Kate Jones
Two old, established communities with venerable histories, Kibworth an area in Leicestershire and of course, Mumbles
by Carol Powell MA
by Carol Powell
My thoughts often stray back to one sunny spring morning in 1952, when I walked nervously up West Cross Lane to my new school, Grange . . .
John Trow contacted us with his memory of travelling to Grange School:
'Looking through the website A History of Mumbles today, I came across the article, Everyday Life in the Police Service > and when I read it I saw the photo of PC Tiny Davies.
This brought back memories of Grange School. One day, my brother was taking me to school on the crossbar of his bike and as we were going down the hill to the school, out steps PC Davies with his hand held out in front of him, shouting "Stop" .
He gave us a telling off, I was terrified and remember it so well to this day'.
by his grandson Mark Lewis
William never talked about his service in The Great War.
He was badly wounded in France, had become a POW, eventually being repatriated by the Red Cross and subsiquently, a patient at Victoria Hall Hospital, Mumbles, very near to his home.
By Carol Powell
Bronwyn Elizabeth shares this clipping of her great grandfather and great Uncle
Ted Thomas and his brother Bert
MUMBLES LIFEBOATMAN DIES IN AUSTRALIA
Our photograph shows former Mumbles Lifeboat bow-man, the late Ten Thomas and his brother Bert, former 2nd Cox of the Lifeboat 'William Gammon.' They together with Cox Bill Garner helped form the new crew after the 1947 Samtampa disater. Ted emigrated to Australia 15 years ago and died there on November 7th. His brothers Bert and Archie still live locally. Ted leaves a widow, 6 girls and two boys. His oldest daughter Jean is Mrs. Comley of the Morriston bakery family.
by Mary Newey (née Nicholson)
My Mother’s maiden name was Libby and the family home at Southend, where we spent hours with granny and Uncle Harry.
The fifth of January 2020 marked the 60th anniversary of the demise of our much-loved Mumbles Railway.
by Carol Powell
Photo Album
by Denise Large née Hargreaves
by Kate Jones
If you walk up the drangway to Oystermouth parish church from Mumbles Road and look to your left in the churchyard you will see an unusual grave – unusual because the inscription is in French? You might wonder why.
by Kate Jones
Images of Horton Beach by Richard Lewis
added to memories by David Tucker
An old salt said, 'I have seen the maps and ancient pictures which prove that a large extent of land, now submerged in the Bay and extending as far as the Green Grounds, formerly belonged to the Angel family.'