Lighthouse & Fort
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by Carol Powell
WHEN Charlie Cottle, the last keeper of the Mumbles lighthouse, finished in 1934 at the age of 61, the event was considered important enough for the popular national daily, the Sketch, to devote nearly two pages to the story and pictures.
Telegraph Station, c1900
by Carol Powell M.A.
Living at Mumbles Lighthouse . But when the tempests crash and storm fiends roar, And the breakers dash on the rocky shore, And the Mixon is drowned ...
by Carol Powell
... The two women involved, Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright, were the daughters of the lighthouse keeper, Abraham Ace.
by Kate Jones
'On the lighthouse island Keeper Abraham Ace watched a darkly-clad man picking his way across the sounds from the mainland. The main was his assistant, William Walkey, and the tide was coming in . .
Before the fort, 1814
by Daniell, William... a large ship, the 'Admiral Prinz Adalbert', was thrown onto the rocks of the lighthouse island. The lifeboat went to her aid but was capsized three times, Jenkin Jenkins lost ...
by Carol Powell
Telegraph Station, c1900
by Carol Powell MA
Mumbles Lighthouse - Captured in Time
... 28 June 2013, Unveiled after a long period undergoing maintenance
The Headland, after 1929
by John Jeffers
... or the tide to go into Swansea docks. In about 1936 when the Mumbles lighthouse light went automatic the Coastguard in the lookout on Tutt Hill operated the light house ...
A Later view
Extracts from the autobiography
... to go on and we knew we were doing wrong. We went on the lighthouse and saw one of the Eynons, who showed us how the lighthouse worked.
by Gary Gregor
... ships with all sails up entering Swansea harbour, and was interested to visit Mumbles Lighthouse and speak with the lighthouse keeper.
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