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PART ONE - MUMBLES FORT
PART ONE - MUMBLES FORT
Mumbles Fort
Mumbles Fort
by Carol Powell
The EARLY Artillery at Fort Mumbles
The defences at Fort Mumbles
Wartime Mumbles
Wartime Mumbles
Edited by John and Carol Powell
The LATER artillery is added to Fort Mumbles
PART TWO - MUMBLES LIGHTHOUSE
PART TWO - MUMBLES LIGHTHOUSE
Mumbles Lighthouse
Mumbles Lighthouse
by Carol Powell M.A.
Living at Mumbles Lighthouse when the tempests crash and storm fiends roar, and the breakers dash on the rocky shore.
Revealed by Stuart Batcup
Revealed by Stuart Batcup
Complaints were lodged with the Oystermouth UDC in November 1908, about the ‘serious nuisance’ caused to residents of Thistleboon by the noise of the new fog -horn placed on Mumbles Head.
by Carol Powell
by Carol Powell
... The two women involved, Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright, were the daughters of the lighthouse keeper, Abraham Ace.
Kate Jones, the co-author of the published book on The Mumbles Lifeboat Station, has documented the story of the 1883 Lifeboat disaster and named those who entered Bob's Cave . . .
“READY!”
“READY!”
Punch and the 1883 Mumbles Lifeboat Disaster
Punch and the 1883 Mumbles Lifeboat Disaster
Kate Jones
In February 1883 readers of Punch were treated to a wonderful drawing by - Edward Linley Sambourne. It depicts a lifeboatman, wearing waterproofs and a heavy cork life-jacket, looking out over a stormy sea; below him a lifeboat speeds towards a shipwreck. The anguished woman and children ‘tell’ their own story.
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 . . .
by Gary Gregor
... ships with all sails up entering Swansea harbour, and was interested to visit Mumbles Lighthouse and speak with the lighthouse keeper.
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.
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.
Inside the Old Coastguard Hut at the Tutt in the early 1970s. Photo: by John Pile.
Mumbles Coastguard
Mumbles Coastguard
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 ...
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