WPW054902 WALES (1937). View of central Swansea showing covered market, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.

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Title [WPW054902] View of central Swansea showing covered market, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.
Reference WPW054902
Date 16-August-1937
Link Coflein Archive Item 6370114
Place name
Parish
District
Country WALES
Easting / Northing 265642, 193048
Longitude / Latitude -3.9409992857105, 51.619726442612
National Grid Reference SS656930

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Wind Street Junction signal box, in vee of lines from East Dock and North Dock (High Street station).

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St David's Priory church

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Norwegian church

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Cross Keys public house.

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Buildings fronting onto Gower Street.

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Houses fronting onto Dynevor Place.

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De la Beche Street

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Bottom end of Mount Pleasant.

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This building in High Street has "Chapman's" on the facade. It is still there in 2023.

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Unitarian church (in shadow, but still there in 2023).

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Houses fronting onto Orchard Street.

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Houses fronting onto Bellevue Street.

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Modern building at junction of Park Street and Waterloo Street.

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St Mary Street

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Junction of Goat Street and Caer Street.

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Fisher Street, leading to York Street.

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Rutland Street

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St Helen's Road. (For the benefit of those more familiar with modern-day Swansea, the upper end of St Helen's Road was subsumed into The Kingsway after the war. It extended as far as the junction with Cradock Street, then ran into Heathfield Street and then into Gower Street.)

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Some quite modern buildings fronting onto Heathfield Street (all destroyed in February 1941).

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Junction of College Street, High Street (to left) and Castle Bailey Street (to right).

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New Castle Buildings (erected 1912).

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Buildings fronting onto High Street.

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College Street

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Cradock Street

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Junction of Portland Street and Park Street.

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Mount Pleasant chapel

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Mount Street, running into Somerset Place.

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Ben Evans' department store, destroyed by bombing and fire in February 1941.

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Newspaper offices, originally the General Post Office.

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Market hall, destroyed (apart from perimeter walls) by bombing in February 1941.

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St Mary's church, later completely rebuilt following wartime bomb and fire damage.

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York Place Baptist church

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G.W.R. Burrows Lodge (a.k.a. Wind Street) goods depot.

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Terminus of Mumbles Railway passenger services.

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L.M.S. Railway goods shed

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L.M.S. Railway carriage shed

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Cambrian Place

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Burrows Place. Note South Wales Transport bus stand, with four vehicles in attendance.

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Exchange buildings.

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North Dock half-tide basin.

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South Dock half-tide basin.

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Wednesday 29th of March 2023 11:29:27 AM

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Hydraulic pump house, later "The Pumphouse" restaurant.

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Coast LInes warehouse, later Swansea Maritime & Industrial Museum, later still part of the National Waterfront Museum.

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Hancock's brewery.

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L.M.S. Railway (ex-L.N.W.R.) Victoria passenger station. Train shed roof intact at this date. The Luftwaffe would see to that.

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Hennebique ferro-concrete grain store for Weaver & Co. (commonly, but erroneously referred to as "Weaver's Mill").

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Weaver & Co's flour mills (constructed around Beaufort Dock).

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North Dock (closed 1929).

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Partial infilling of North Dock appears to have started here.

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Wednesday 29th of March 2023 11:20:25 AM

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L.M.S. Railway goods shed (ex-Midland Railway).

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L.M.S. Railway St Thomas station (ex-Midland Railway). Notice that the timber entrance building fronting Thomas Street appears to have been removed by this date.

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High level railway bridge over the New Cut (fixed). Piers survive in 2023.

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Former Beaufort Dock (filled in, by the look of it).

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New Cut swing bridge.

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Wednesday 29th of March 2023 11:12:13 AM
North Dock drawbridge.

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Wednesday 29th of March 2023 11:11:43 AM
Riverside station (closed 1933)

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Calvert St (now the site of Primark 2014)

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Star Theatre later Rialto Cinema

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Albert Hall Cinema

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Probable steam locomotive

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Dynevor School

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Holy Trinity Church

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The Swansea Museum, built c.1841

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Sailors Home and Shipping Office (viewed from the rear)

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Harbour Office, Swansea Harbour Trust built c.1903

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The Guildhall built c.1820, substantially altered 1848

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Royal London Insurance Building

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Swansea Castle

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