Author: gbadmin

I offer you this story with no commentary. Theses are the words as they appeared in the Cambrian Newspaper published in Swansea on 28 January 1843. I have tidied up the paragraphing and the punctuation, that’s all. No other comments are required. Three bag foxes were brought by the coach from London to this town…

The Uplands Cinema is a representative of those suburban cinemas which sprang up all over Swansea and then disappeared just as quickly. At one time almost every community had one, like the Manor Cinema which was in Manselton or the Maxine in Sketty. Morriston had the Gem and the Regal and in St Thomas you…

This piece is taken from my book, A – Z of Swansea which was published in 2016 I found a quotation in an old newspaper which said that “Swansea men are sure to be in any event that causes a universal or general attention.” The quotation  does seem to contain a grain of truth.  Swansea…

I am so glad we don’t have such a thing today, and so glad, too, that I never had to fill one in.  The book speaks of a more brutal time – “A Record of Cases of Corporal Punishment” – as it tells us on the inside cover. The copy I  found in Cwm School,…

In this final piece from the  Cwm School Log Books, we look at the seventies and the eighties. So familiar perhaps, but the world has changed in so many ways      In 1974 the school moved into refurbished buildings, but with a sense of disappointment, especially with the standard of the work. The toilets didn’t…

The closure of Cwm school in 2010 brought to an end a little piece of history, for it was a place which has been a focal point for a small community and holding so many important memories for so many people for such a long time.  I had the great privilege of examining the school…