The Park Shelter at Promenade Terrace Southend
Southend Park Shelter, c. 2000, with Antelope Hotel just out of view, to the right.
Park Shelter, c. 2000, with Antelope Hotel is to the right.
This shelter along the Promenade, at now Southend Gardens, is one of several constructed by Swansea Town Council, probably around 1930.
The Park Shelter at Southend, can be seen at the rear centre of this photo. The two children are standing next to a wartime floating contact mine, used as a charity collection box for the Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society.
The photos show a floating contact mine, which was used as a charity collection box for the Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society, situated at Southend.
There is one now, in the car park near Verdi's but I don't know if it is the same mine.in Southend. There was also one that once stood near the Big Apple in Bracelet Bay.
Willie Grey is pictured at a Bowling Green at Southend, opposite The Prince of Wales Hotel, around 1910. Now the site of Southend Gardens children's playground, Mumbles .
Southend Gardens, opposite The Prince of Wales public house, Southend, Mumbles, with cousin Pam and Marion Garnett, 1943.
Village Lane slipway, Southend, Mumbles and Oystermouth Castle, November 2007.
A modern view of Promenade Terrace, Patricks With Rooms and Rockhill House, Pond Steps, Southend. February 2016
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Knab Rock slipway, between 1984 and 1993
A new Coastal Protection Scheme, was begun in 2023
The Swansea Council scheme will help protect homes, businesses and people from flooding and the risk of rising sea levels. Some of the existing defences are in a poor condition, with a risk of flooding. The flood risk level is expected to increase in the future due to predicted sea level rises. The project will see more than a kilometre of new sea defences built between Southend and Oystermouth Square, Mumbles.
Knights Brown was appointed as the contractor to undertake the work, which is commenced in January 2023 and is proposed to be completed over approximately 80 weeks. Project Overview, along with numerous photos and various plans concening the scheme, can be found on the Knights Brown website (this takes you away from this page).
The project will combine improved coastal defences with improvements to the Promenade right next to the main seawall.
A collection of photographs An Amble Along The Dunns