Department of History & Welsh History http://www.aber.ac.uk/temp-history/research/swansea.html Department of History & Welsh History,Hugh Owen Building, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth,Ceredigion SY23 3DY Tel: 01970 622662 Fax: 01970 622676 Email: [email protected] HOME News & Events Staff PORTS AND RESORTS PROJECT UNDERGRADUATE Introduction BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WELSH SEASIDE RESORTS Undergraduate Admissions Degree Scheme Details PREFACE Handbooks & Booklets Current modules Previo us examinatio n papers Teaching through Welsh Departmental Prizes APPR & PDP Visiting Us POSTGRADUATE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SWANSEA Po stgraduate Studies in History Postgraduate Information Ally Sloper’s Half-Holiday. The Mumbles, you will be glad to hear, is a place where About the Department people don’t really mumble more than elsewhere, the natives, as a rule, speaking Resources much more plainly than our Billy, and lisping considerably less than Lardi Longsox, late Material considerations: of the Follies-Bergere. At Mumbles, bathing fatalities are as rare as diamonds in an Accommodation oyster, and I myself can vouch from personal experience that there are sands for Funding - How to apply paddling purposes between the Mumbles Mead and the Worm, not to be equalled Handbooks & Booklets elsewhere. Yes, I like Mumbles muchly, and even if the promenade railings have cost more than was expected, they are very nice to lean against. I approve too of the RESEARCH “Pav.”, and the Angel Café and Restaurant merits the good word. Try the Mumbles, Introduction dears, before the end of the Season. Staff Research Research seminar (WGAS D134 Scrapbook of press cuttings, 28th September 1889) Postgraduate research seminar Conferences Many people resort here in the season for the benefit of sea bathing in consequence of Histo ry links which it has all the concomitants of such places, as Theatre, Library, and Public rooms. Research Postgraduates We had heard so much of the beauty of the Town that we were disappointed, it consists Postgraduate History Forum principally of a straggling unequal street upwards of a mile in length. The castle, which 2009 is used as a jail, is of an ugly colour, but the open and arched parapet arrests the DEPARTMENTAL attention. We were recommended by the Gentleman we have before mentioned to the RESEARCH CENTRES Mackworth Arms Inn as the best in the place and expected therefore some style as well Centre for media history as comfort but were much deceived the house was dirty and gloomy and the people Centre for the social and barely civil however they proved their claim to distinction as the great Inn by the cultural history of Wales extent of their charges. Centre for research in historiography and historical culture DEPARTMENTAL (Walk through South Wales’, an account of a tour made in October 1819 by William and RESEARCH PROJECTS Sampson Sandys) AHRC projects: Private Law & Medieval Village Society Seals in Medieval Wales INDEX (SiMeW) BOCS Projects: Resorts Project National Library of Wales Other: Printed material Mo nastic Wales Tourist guides Directories Miscellaneous publications COLLABORATIVE Local Government Acts ACTIVITY Manuscript material Institute of Medieval and Early Non-municipal material Modern Studies Diaries and journals British Academy network Letters and papers AHRC Ireland-Wales Network 1 of 46 2011-05-17 12:50 Department of History & Welsh History http://www.aber.ac.uk/temp-history/research/swansea.html Visual material Photographs Postcards West Glamorgan Archive Service Printed material Tourist guides Directories Miscellaneous publications Manuscript material Municipal material Swansea Corporation records Town Clerk’s records Non-municipal material George Grant Francis collection Deposits and donations (miscellaneous) Swansea Library Collection Paintings and drawings Postcards and photographs Maps and plans Swansea Central Library Printed material Tourist guides Swansea University Printed material Tourist guides Directories Miscellaneous publications Manuscript material Local Government Board records National Archives Kew Manuscript material Local Government Board records Other repositories Printed material Tourist guides Miscellaneous publications Online sources Cambrian Online Index Appendix Publications on resorts in Britain NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES PRINTED MATERIAL Tourist guides: A description of Swansea, (William Jones, Swansea, 1813). Dedicated to Sir John Morris “under whose influence the harbour of Swansea has received considerable improvement and the Trade felt its beneficial effects”. Description of Swansea, the bay, shipping, walks, market, notable residents, bathing house, Burrows, etc. Also included is information on Gower, Briton Ferry, Neath, etc. 63 pages, excluding appendices. [NLW WB1866] A description of Swansea; comprehending every thing worthy of notice, for the information of the stranger, (Author is Jones N.P., according to GGF in RISW GGF 23/135; published by F. Fagg, printed by D Jenkins, Swansea, 1826) Handwritten note inside reads “ Said to be by W. Jones. A New Edition”. Contains historical and general description of Swansea, with appendixes of corporation information, transport, harbour, traders and professionals, lodging houses, military, fares of bathing machines, library terms, etc. 61 pages, excluding appendices. Dedicated to the portreeve, aldermen and burgesses of Swansea. [NLW XDA 1353.A3.S9; WGAS open shelves, Xerox copy; UCW Swansea W/DA 1364 Rare Books] Baker, James, A Picturesque Guide to the Local Beauties of Wales; interspersed with 2 of 46 2011-05-17 12:50 Department of History & Welsh History http://www.aber.ac.uk/temp-history/research/swansea.html the most interesting objects of antiquity in that Principality. The Second Edition. By James Baker; Assisted by Gentlemen of Great Scientific Learning and Knowledge, Vol.1,(London, 1791). Dedicated to the Prince of Wales, patron of the work. Preface by the author. Historical and topographical description of South Wales, from Chepstow to St. David’s, with engravings. Description of Swansea, pp. 125-128. 186 pages. [NLW XDA 1222 B16] Bath, T. E., The excelsior guide to Swansea & the Mumbles: with a carefully and accurately compiled map of the town of Swansea, (Swansea, 1880). Contains historical and topographical description, climate, industry, town improvements, population figures, etc. Guide follows three routes: Post Office to Temple St.; Castle Bailey St. to Dynevor Pl.; and Mumbles, pointing out interesting landmarks etc., along the way. Includes list of apartments to let, trades and professional directory and advertisements. 62 pages, excluding adverts and directories. [NLW Dyb 2004. A2. S2] Black’s Picturesque Tourist of England and Wales, with a general travelling map; charts of roads, railroads, and interesting localities; engraved views of picturesque scenery; and a comprehensive general index, embracing a list of hotels and inns. 2nd ed. (Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1851). Includes prefaces to 1st and 2nd editions, information of travelling expenses, hints to railway travellers, contents page, and list of illustrations. Tours to and through Wales on pp. 127-174, with short descriptions of Swansea, pp. 131-132. With fold out maps of North and South Wales. 538 pages, including index. General advertisement section at the back. Filed loosely inside is a handwritten, anonymous item entitled ‘Tour in Wales July 1853’, which looks like an account of a tour taken of North and Mid Wales, with a description of journey, places stayed, attractions seen etc, including Aberystwyth. [NLW 96MA3038] Black’s Picturesque Guide through North and South Wales and Monmouthshire. With a copious itinerary, a full description of every remarkable place, and a comprehensive general index, embracing a list of hotels and inns. Illustrated by maps, charts and views of Severn. 2nd ed. (Edinburgh, 1853). Numerous editions published between 1851 and 1910. Contains contents page, brief general description of Wales, the Welsh alphabet, glossary, engravings. Description of, and routes to and from, Swansea, pp. 315-321. 406 pages, including index. [NLW XDA 1223. B62] Black’s Picturesque Guide to Wales, illustrated with charts, maps and views, 19th ed. (Edinburgh, Charles and Black, 1888). Includes contents page, list of maps and charts, skeleton tours, itineraries, glossary of Welsh words, Welsh vocabulary for tourists, table of distances. With general description of Wales, and description of Swansea, 308-315. 433 pages, including index. [NLW XDA 1223 B62] Chamber of Commerce Borough Pocket Guide (William Walford Moore, c. 1908/9). Alternative title: The "Borough" pocket guide to Swansea, no. 274. Issued under the auspices of the Swansea Chamber of Commerce and the Swansea Harbour Trust, (Cheltenham, 1909). Dedicated to the portreeve, corporation, burgesses and inhabitants of Swansea. Contains historical and general description of Swansea, street plan, map, illustrations, 48 pages. [NLW XDA 1353 A5.S9] Clarke, J. H., Guide to Monmouthshire and South Wales, No. 1: Gloucester to Milford, .. within easy distance to the South Wales Railway. (Usk, 1870). 88 pages. [No copy located] Cliffe, Charles Frederick, The book of South Wales: the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire, and the Wye. A companion and guide to the railways, watering places, shores, scenery, antiquities, unexplored regions, mineral districts, towns, and other objects of interest throughout the southern division of the principality; with a picture of Bristol , 2nd ed. (London, 1848).