Volume 21
2013/14
A six inch gun on Mumbles Hill
(image courtesy of Jeff Phillips)
TO BUY: some copies still available for £6 at the annual History Day and Local History Book Fair at Swansea Museum. Keep an eye on our Events page for upcoming dates. Or contact the editor at publications@risw.org.
TO CONSULT: go to Swansea Central Library (Reference section), West Glamorgan Archive Service or (by appointment) Swansea Museum (01792/653763).
Contents:
Griffith John (1831-1912), Swansea's Pioneer Missionary to Central China by Vernon Williams
William Drayton's Tours in South Wales 1782 and 1783, I
The Commercial Colliery, Killay: tracking its legacy by David Whitehead
Early 20th Century Housing and Planning in and around Swansea, c.1900-1920 by Michael Simpson
Defences on Mumbles Head during the Second World War by John Powell & Kate Elliott Jones
Swansea Customs & Excise Service, some historical artefacts by Peter Hopkins & Michael Williams
Leonard Charles Super Store, a Swansea Survivor by Gillian Drake
The Property of a Lady (Katherine Cradock, d.1537) by Madeleine Grey
Playing Amy Dillwyn by Debra John
A Lightning Campaign: the opening of Swansea Y.M.C.A. By Phil Treseder
Twentieth Century Life at Highway Farm [Pennard] by Christine Cottrell
Gemau Byrrach (briefer gems):
Miss R.Gwenny Griffiths [artist] 1867-1953
Tom O'May & Llandarcy
More Parkman paintings
Adelaide Street 1880s ?
ISBN 978-0-9563784-5-3