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Taken around 1913, this photo shows my paternal great grandfather, Jack Evans outside the Nags Head before he demolished and rebuilt parts of it. Photo: Caroline Senior.
I love the old pictures on your Facebook page and was pleased to be able to send you the family photo of The Nags Head, as my father was born in the room upstairs in 1917.
My Paternal Great Grandparents were Jack (also known as John) and Amelia Evans, who ran the Nags Head in The Dunns, Mumbles.
Jack was a stonemason who knocked the very old pub down and re built it. He also made the tiny cobbled walls in the cutting, on the left going out to Bracelet Bay in the 1880s.
Jack eventually lost his licence for allowing men to gamble in his Pub, which resulted in a move to The Marine Public House at Southend, where Amelia became the licence holder.
Their daughter Gladys, my grandmother, married George Ballard, who worked for Colonel J. E. Vaughan, at his Rheola house as chauffeur and Gladys, as the housekeeper, during the First World War and afterwards. They later came back to Mumbles and lived at Oakland Road, with George working as a chauffeur at The Langland Bay Hotel.
My grandparents, George and Gladys, then lived by me, in Oakland Road until 1993-4, in a house that Jack had helped to build in around 1900. Gladys passed away in her 100th year in 1999.
The upper part of The Dunns today, with a glimpse of the building which once hosted The Naggs Head. Taken from the site of Forte's Ice Cream Parlour and looking up the first part of The Dunns, to the entrance to 'The Square'.
June 2012, after changing into a Costa Coffee Shop.
Then the Dark Horse Restaurant, Oct 2020
It's a sunny afternoon in The Dunns, 1922. Over time, its small rooms were merged to become a more modern open-plan style.
In 1972, the Nag's was renamed The Oystercatcher, before changing back to The Nag's head in 1995.
The Nags Head, the Dunns near The Garage in this 1970 photo.
The The Nags Head is the seen on the left of The Dunns, pre 1930.
A reminder of how much the view has changed, since the 1880s. The Methodist Church is on the seashore, but soon new land will be created fo the Mumbles Railway.
A closer look of The Dunns, as viewed from Mumbles Hill, between 1877 & 1890.
On the left are Claremont Villas, Fern Cottage and the third Methodist Church, opened in 1877.
Taylor the Grocers is on the corner of Dunns Lane and the building next door still exists and now holds a shop and Joshua's. There is a gap and then a double fronted premised, The Nags Head being on the right hand side.
Shops, flats and Oddfellows Hall occupied the seaward side of The Dunns which were demolished around 1970. The Elms is the house on the right.
A view of The Dunns, from near Clements Quarry, between 1877 & 1890
A view from Clements Quarry, after the extension of the Mumbles Train over the Horsepool and incudes The Pier opened in May 1898, as well as shops in The Dunns.
There is another glimpse of The Nags Head Public House. The second Methodist Chapel, was replaced in 1877 by todays chapel, which is of course 100 yards from the shore. With Oystermouth Castle overlooking the village, which will have observed many changes over the years.