Book-Mumbles and Gower Pubs

Illustrated with over 180 old photographs, postcards and promotional advertisements, this absorbing collection offers the reader an insight into the life of many Mumbles and Gower pubs past and present, and highlights some of the changes that have taken place during the last 150 years.Included are images of the Antelope Inn – one of Dylan Thomas’s first calls when he visited Mumbles in the early 1930s – the Beaufort Arms in Kittle, the Greyhound Inn at Oldwalls and the Royal Oak in Penclawdd, as well as snapshots of pubs along the renowned Mumbles Mile. Glimpses of the working and social life, including a charabanc outing of the Pilot Inn’s regulars in 1924, and some of the pubs’ more lively clientele – including characters such as Dick the Fish and Mr X – are also featured; each image recalling the fascinating history of the peninsula’s pubs.