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Photo: The Breakwater viewed from The Dunns. Photo: Stuart Eley, 10 Aug 1909
Village Lane Slipway, Southend, Mumbles, with Oystermouth Castle, November 2007.
The remains of the breakwater, can be seen at the Village Lane Slipway, Southend, Mumbles. May 2015
Remains of the breakwater, 2008
Remains of the breakwater, 2008
The view to the Pier, 10 August 1909, includes the quay or breakwater at Southend, built to shelter the Oyster Skiffs, a close up of which is seen in the photo below.
The breakwater was damaged in a storm and rotted away.
A Mother and son are ready to enjoy time on the beach next to the wooden breakwater at Southend. Photo by M A Clare, 1920.
A Mumbles Steam Train at Southend, with the remains of the old breakwater in the background, 1925.
A boat is stranded at the old breakwater. Photo from Mr Hullin.
Diving off the 'Piles', the remains of the old breakwater, off Promenade Terrace, Southend, 1957
Southend Shoreline: Regatta and Raft Race
Southend Shoreline: Regatta and Raft Race
These two photos taken approximately 85 years apart at the same spot at Southend, show the differences between days out at the Regattas in the 1920s and watching the Raft Race in 2007. In the colour one, people are casually dressed, mostly in tee shirts and shorts, while in the black and white one, everyone having arrived on the Mumbles steam train is dressed in their 'Sunday Best,' replete with hats.
On the sandbank at Southend
In the 1870s, a group of Mumbles people gathered on a sandbank off Southend to pose for the comparatively new invention of photography. Exposures were lengthy and required the position to be held - hence the images of three boys are blurred as they were obviously restless!
In the background are working oyster skiffs, two in full sail; the quarried hill devoid of vegetation and the new partly-made road reaching a dead-end.
But what is also fascinating is what is not in the photo — the ‘Cutting’, the track of the Mumbles railway and the Bristol Channel Yacht Club (BCYC), which would become part of the future.
What was once an area of working oyster skiffs, fishing and limestone-carrying boats has in the intervening years, been transformed into a haven for leisure craft and a place of relaxation for locals and tourists.
The quarried Limestone awaits loading onto ships, near The Geoge Hotel, Southend, Mumbles. A boat and Bathing Machine require repair. Photo marked 1860 and the properties on the seaward side of the road were demolished around 1887
Men loading limestone onto a horse and cart at Southend, Mumbles
One man is loading limestone onto a horse and cart at Southend, Mumbles
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