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Opened August 2002
Opened August 2002
and closed on September 2009
and closed on September 2009
Mumbles Local History Centre
Mumbles Local History Centre
at Ty Hanes
at Ty Hanes
4, Dunns Lane, Mumbles
It was run as a partnership between
Mumbles Development Trust and
Oystermouth Historical Association.
Publications are still available
see Publications page for
postage or collection details
THE WORK OF
THE WORK OF
MUMBLES LOCAL HISTORY CENTRE
MUMBLES LOCAL HISTORY CENTRE
Ty Hanes opened in August 2002 with a grant from Bachdor Bro,
as part of Mumbles Development Trust’s ‘wish list’ of projects.
It was run as a partnership between the Trust and volunteers from Oystermouth Historical Association.
The Centre opened from Easter until the end of October, from 10.00am to 4pm, all stewarded in two-hour shifts by a volunteer team of 25 local enthusiasts.
The purpose at the Centre was to research historical facts, record people’s memories, collect photographs, contribute history articles to Mumbles Matters newspaper and its online sister, publish leaflets and books of our work and put on exhibitions on various aspects of Mumbles Past.
We also had a small library of Oystermouth Parish documents such as the censuses, parish records, street directories, old newspapers and journals, which our visitors were welcome to browse.
We welcomed school parties and University groups to the Centre and our retired-teacher members help them with their local studies. We represented Ty Hanes at Swansea Museum and West Glamorgan Archive Office Open Days, where we ‘talked local history’ and sold our publications to visitors.
OUR RESEARCH TEAM
OUR RESEARCH TEAM
History project Co-ordinator and a founder member of the |Trust—Carol Powell MA
Display Officer —Kate Elliott
Oystermouth Historical Association Archivist and Researcher—Wendy Cope
Oystermouth Historical Association Programme Secretary—John Powell
And twenty-five volunteer stewards
Some of these topics below are covered on this website -
Archive from 2002 to 2009
Mumbles Schools -2002
Mumbles Then and Now
Mumbles in 1952
Old Views of Mumbles
The Horsepool
The Geology of Mumbles: Mumbles Marble
Mrs Stockton Entertains
War and Peace
Christmas in Mumbles
2003:
Mumbles Lifeboat Disasters of 1883 and 1903
Farming in Newton and Mumbles
Mumbles Scouts and Guides
“I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside” * Victorian and Edwardian holidays in Mumbles
Try Some Mumbles Oysters * the Mumbles Oyster Industry in C19th
M.A. Clare 1879-1965: Photographer of Mumbles & Gower
Down the Drain! Swansea Main Drainage Scheme in Mumbles, 1931-36
Armistice Day Commemoration
West Cross Woodland Display
Swansea Jack: a famous dog
Christmas in Mumbles including the Mari Llwd ceremony
2004:
Centenary of St Peter’s Church, Newton
Hamlets of Mumbles: A History of Newton
Gatherings, Groups and Get-togethers in Mumbles
Mumbles From the Air
Let’s go Shopping in Mumbles
Dylan Thomas display
Mumbles History Trail
Visiting exhibition from Swansea Eastside History Society
Maritime Mumbles
The Mumbles Railway 1804-1960
Hamlets of Mumbles: A History of Southend
2005:
Mumbles at War: The Home Front
2006:
Hamlets of Mumbles: A History of Norton
A History of Mumbles Hill including environmental photographs from City & County of Swansea
Rotherslade Bay Improvement Scheme 1926-7
The Rotherslade Bay Improvement Scheme 1926/7
Known to locals as the 'White Elephant'
“Wish you were here …” Postcards from Mumbles
This exhibition traced the history of postcards from their introduction in 1894 throughout the ‘Golden Age of postcards’.
2007:
Hamlets of Mumbles: A History of West Cross
2007
“For those in Peril on the Sea” * The 60th anniversary of the loss of the SS Samtampa and the Mumbles Lifeboat in April 1947
The First Passenger Railway in the World: 200th anniversary of the Mumbles Train
(A revised and much larger exhibition than the one staged in 2004)
Mumbles Woodlands exhibition
2007-
'The Growth of West Cross' display included photographs, memories, maps and historical information on the farms, schools, churches and large houses
From March to end June 2008-there were three displays-
The 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' display
‘Mumbles: Now and Then’
& ‘Birds' Eye Mumbles’
From July to 20 September 2008
MUMBLES THROUGH ARTISTS' EYES
also
FROM CASTLE TO CASWELL
A journey Through Time-with 155 years of photographs.
The themes for the spring display 2009 were:-
‘One Hundred years of Scouting and Guiding’
‘Leisure’- sports, trips, walks etc
‘Mumbles Marble’
'Bygone Mumbles'
Mumbles History Centre Exhibitions Archive
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