Aerial Photos of Mumbles Head, Swansea

Second World War defences

7 July 1946

Oystermouth to Pier Stations & Mumbles Hill, Frame 5316, 7 July 1946

More plans & maps are at The Coastal Gunsite

7 July 1946

Thistleboon to Mumbles Hill-Islands, Frame 5316, 7 July 1946

7 July 1946

Thistleboon to Mumbles Hill-Islands, Frame 5316, 7 July 1946

After around 70 years

Thistleboon to Mumbles Hill-Islands, by Google c2016

22 October 1941

AA Gunsite on Mumbles Hill at Thistleboon Drive, Frame 44 Enlarged, 22 October 1941

More plans & maps at Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery on Mumbles Hill

1 July 1940

Luftwaffe Photo, Swansea Bay & Mumbles Head, from 'Eye of the Eagle' by Nigel A. Robins

Mumbles Hill, Bracelet Bay & Mumbles Coastguard Station at The Tutt, around 2005

Mumbles Lighthouse Island, Pier & Hill, before 2010

Mumbles Lighthouse Island, Pier, Beach & view to Swansea, before 2010

Mumbles Lighthouse, after repair works, taken by Mr. Allan Nicholas, Inspector of Works, Trinity House Swansea. Taken from the Trinity House Helicoptor, 1979

Norton & Mumbles Hill, probably around 1960

Old and New

All Saints' Church, the 'New' Bowling Green as well as The 'New' Cinema, Between 1922 & 1929


Below are two closer views of the building on the lower right
A closer view of the building on the lower right of the aerial photo above

The 'old' British Legion Hut in Oystermouth Square, and a glimpse of the back of the 'New' Cinema, Mumbles, between 1922 & 1929

A closer view of the building on the lower right of the aerial photo above

Red Cross Doctors, Nurses & Ambulance Volunteers, outside the old British Legion Hut in Oystermouth Square, Mumbles, during WW2. Wartime Memories by Betty Sivertsen

Oystermouth Castle

Langland Bay, probably before 1925