SA1

As the SA1 development continues the face of Swansea is for ever changing. New propeties are being devolped Castle Lofts High Street, Pearl studio apartment Princess Way, to name a few. Having lived in Swansea all my life I can see the difference in the town centre with many  shops closing as shopping centre’s are [...]

Swansea,s traffic system.

Swansea’s city centre is being devoloped into a one awy traffice system. The scheme is for a modern new transport system to provide a fast and reliable service between Morriston Hospital and Singleton Hospital. Work on the scheme will be suspened from November 18th. for the Christmas period. Hopefully when the work is completed it [...]

Devlopement of Swansea,s lesure centre

Swansea’s leisure centre situated at Oyestermouth Road closed in november 2003 after serving the community for 25 years, it is to be upgraded at an estimated cost of £25m with the pool being upgraded and many new attractions.

Albert Hall

The Albert Hall situated on the corner of Cradock Street was built in 1864 as a Music Hall.It was opened as a cinema in 1937 and operated until 1976 when it was taken over by Rank Organisations to be used as a bingo hall .The bingo hall opened in April 1978 as The Top Rank [...]

Swansea’s devlopement.

Here we have pictures of David Evans the oldest deptartment store in Swansea which closed it doors for the last in January.The building has since been demolished to make way for a new shopping complex in the city centre.

Transportation

The construction of the railway made the transportation of the ore considerably easier. Then in the 1890’s a revolutionary new process of ore seperation enabled higher percentages of concentrate than had ever been achieved before. Ore was trapped in a layer of oil floating on tanks of water to achieve these percentages. To increase efficiency a horse [...]

Swansea’s History of Mining

Swansea is situated on the south coast of wales, at the narrow mouth of the river Tawe. The Normans considered it to be essential enough to build a castle here in the 12th century.
In 1306  docks were established at Swansea for ship-building. Towards the end of the 18th century these docks were improved to cope with [...]