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Why is the village called Mumbles? >

       ...The very word sets you wondering what sort of a place is known by such a fascinating name.

The new Lifeboat, Roy Barker IV launching

Celebrating 200 Years of the RNLI

Including  Kate Jones
Author collections >
The Windmill at Caswelland The Water Supply

BOOK- Partly online at -

A Trek through old Mumbles and Thistleboon >
 by Stuart Batcup

The Book explores a sometimes under-represented history of Thistleboon and Old Mumbles,  Stuart Batcup takes the reader on a chatty, yet scholarly and well-researched trawl through Old Mumbles and its environs.:

WORLD WAR and WAR MEMORIALS

The Swansea Three Day Blitz

The Swansea Blitz >

19-21 February 1941
and
Seen Through the Eyes of a Child 

By Marion Garnet (McDonald)

Mumbles Local History Societies 

Click for more detailsOystermouth Historical Association >

The next meeting 

Ostreme Centre - The venue for OHA meetings -
FIND US: - Castle Avenue, Mumbles, Swansea, SA3 4BA.

OYSTERMOUTH HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION 

A walk on MUMBLES HILL 

noting Geology, WW2 sites
and a Roman midden  

 2pm Saturday 6th July 2024
From Bracelet Bay car park
From the steps next to
the coach parking bays
Contact  OHA Chairman:
Ian Hughes: 07738 110608

Website-  The Guns of Mumbles Hill 

Mumbles Hill and Bracelet Bay car park

OHA Contacts

Chair: Ian Hughes -
Mobile 07738 110608

Secretary: Stewart Pinching -
Mobile 07760 244742

Programme Sec: Brian Davies 

 (brian_e_davies@hotmail.com)

Membership Secretary:
Keith Brown 07758 238810

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Blackpill Local History Society >  

The Next Meeting of 
Blackpill Local History 

Society   
The May meeting
details soon 

Doors open 10am for 10.30am 

Everyone is welcome -

Venue for talks: Vivian Hall
82, Mumbles Road,  Blackpill, Swansea, SA3 5AS

Blackpill Local History Society >
Click for more details online 

Monthly meetings (except for August & December)
on the third Tuesday from 10.00am.

Everyone is welcome -
membership is £10 for the year or £3 per meeting.

For information contact Bob Cuthill
Tel: 01792 208907 / 07816 111013
or email bobcuthill47@btinternet.com

Blackpill in the 1950s

Blackpill School and Vivian Hall next door

Now a private House