Spring time at Marepool

I remember as a child in the late 1940s / early 50s, being taken for walks past Marepool Cottage and the Pool and then along the ‘green lane’ nearby, towards the sea and the cove known as ‘Ginny’s Gut’.

I grew up in Mumbles from 1933-52 and remember Marepool [sometimes called Mare's Pool or Mear Pool] on Plunch Lane. It was located approximately where the road to the Mumbles Cricket Club begins at the bend in the road leading down to Limeslade, a little way past the entrance to the present-day housing estate at Nicholl Court, near Marepool Cottage.

It was very popular with all the children, especially in the spring, because there you could find frogs and toads and snakes and lots of frogspawn in the spring, which you could take home or to school in jam jars and watch the tadpoles hatch and grow into new young tadpoles.

I'm sure the pool was considered extremely dangerous by most parents and as children, my parents warned us again and again not to go anywhere near Marepool. I believe there had been accidental drownings there as the edges of the pool were extremely soggy and it was hard to tell where the drop-off occurred into deep water. In spite of that, it drew kids like a magnet and I must admit that I was disappointed that it was finally filled in, but I'm sure that parents of small children would have been totally in favour. It existed at least until the 1950s

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