An Historical Map of Swansea and Mumbles 

A review  by Gerald Gabb:

Swansea map by the Historic Towns Trust, also held in Swansea Museum. This is a most attractive and informative document which concentrates on the town and its components in about 1919, but shows features back to the Middle Ages – town walls for example. The main section runs east-west from Danygraig Cemetery to Terrace Road School, and north-south from the King’s Dock lock and the marina to Hafod Bridge and All Saints Kilvey. Then there are detached sections showing the industrial areas of the lower Swansea Valley up to Morriston, and Mumbles which runs to Clements Row, Village Lane, Langland Villas and Coltshill Quarry. By way of explanation there are thirteen interesting images and a mass of text, covering, for example, streets, big houses, pubs & hotels, with a thorough account of Mumbles by Carol Powell and a survey of the industrial sites.

    It has quantity and quality. You need a big table to open it out ! A major contributor was Rob Anthony whose “ ‘A very thriving place’: the peopling of Swansea in the eighteenth century” appeared in the journal Urban History in 2005. 

And it has been very nicely produced –
for a couple of samples (due here later)  The detail is beguiling.

Copies available in English and Welsh from Swansea Museum 

and Cover to Cover, Newton Road, Mumbles: at £10.99