wpw008830 WALES (1923). View of Swansea showing Patti Pavilion, St Helen's and Victoria Park., oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.

Left and right, Walters Rd.

Swansea Swimming Baths. Now a housing complex.

Rear of Eynon's Bakery, Bry-Y-Mor Rd.

Shop. The Gem.

A&E entrance to Swansea Hospital, on Phillips Parade.

Brockley Restaurant.

Now Francis St.

Before Guildhall Rd, North, was built. 1934.

Before Guildhall Rd, South, was built.

Gateway of coal yard where 1950s, there was a collision between a Mumbles Train, and a coal lorry exiting the yard. The lorry driver suffered a fatality.

Coal rail truck sidings, where coal was weighed and loaded onto lorries.

Until 1971, when the August bank Holiday was changed to the last Mon. of the month. The footbridge at the Swansea Bay Station, would be crowded with spectator's, watching the cricket match at St. Helen's Sports Ground, across the Mumbles Rd.

Fullers Cabinet Makers, also had a workshop at the rear of these houses. During the 1960s, I worked from a small warehouse on the same site.

Now Swansea Guildhall, opened 1934.

Victoria Park, 31/12/2014

Bandstand

Dumbarton House School

Fullers Cabinet Works/sawmill

Swansea (Victoria)-Pontarddulais railway line (closed under the Beeching cuts summer 1964)

St Helen's Crescent

Catherine Street

Westbury Street

Finsbury Terrace

The old Swansea Hospital

Bryn-y-Mor Road/Heol Bryn y Mor

Eaton Crescent

Bay View Terrace

Rhyddings Park Road

Mumbles Road

St Helen's Rugby & Cricket Ground

Footbridge (now, I hear, apparently half dismantled; only the steps each side are left)

Victoria Park

Bay View Crescent

King Edward Road

St Helen's Avenue

Gorse Lane

Melrose Cottages

Bryn Y Mor Public House

Cricketers Public House

Patti Pavilion (donated to the town by Dame Adelina Patti in 1918, moved to this site in 1920 after her death)

Swansea Bay Station (LNWR)