Bracelet and Limeslade Bay collection
Edited by John and Carol Powell
Walks, Views and History
by Carol Powell
by Carol Powell MA
These accounts were obtained partly from three people who recorded their experiences in the ... from Mumbles people would have had to climb up the hill at Dickslade or Western Lane, or take a boat around the headland
by Carol Powell MA
These accounts were obtained partly from three people who recorded their experiences in the ... from Mumbles people would have had to climb up the hill at Dickslade or Western Lane, or take a boat around the headland
at Tutt Head , Bracelet Bay, Mumbles edited by John Powell
Everyday Life on Mumbles Coastguard Station
1930 & 1940s by Bet Ogbourne & Pat Symmons ...
My Life at Mumbles Coastguard Station > by John Jeffers
The Mumbles Coastguard Station, then at Westbourne Place, was the Divisional Headquarters. The 'Lookout' on Tutt Hill always known as the 'Tut' was a constant watch station
by Carol Powell M.A.
Mumbles Hill and we can continue to enjoy the wide-sweeping views of the bay
Time marches onwards : in 2021, Forte's Celebrated 85 years
They are giving away free ice-cream at Forte's by Grafton Maggs >
Our generation was expert on ice cream in the thirties
An 1850s walk on Mumbles Hill by A Villager >
How very pretty the walk up to and over the Mumble [sic] Hill. You ascend a narrow, steep, road, commencing in the middle of the village, turn round ... there is a cave beneath it through which you can pass at low water.
A Thistleboon Childhood by Hilary Mackenzie >
Mumbles Hill from The Quarry I was born in a small, square, limestone-walled house overlooking the old village of Mumbles, which nestles close to the shoreline of Swansea Bay ...
On The Turnpike Road To Mumbles and beyond
By Carol Powell MA
Until 1826, when the Swansea to Oystermouth turnpike road opened, Mumbles had been a small isolated fishing village with no road access around the bay to ...
A fantastic sight, The waves on the Mixon
Collection
By Carol Powell MA . . .
But when the tempests crash and storm fiends roar, and the breakers dash
During the Second World War coastal defense guns were installed on Mumbles Hill, now a Local Nature Reserve
I served in the WRNS at Mumbles Coastguard Station by Joan Jones >
Mrs Joan Jones served in the WRNS at The Naval Signal Station at The Tutt, Bracelet Bay, Mumbles . . .My mother was an Air Raid Warden at Thistleboon >
by Michael Llewellyn.My parents were at the back door of our house on the Mumbles Hill, absorbed by the sound of the bombers and the guns and gazing in awe ..