Swansea Trams

from Sketty

Entering Craddock Street

Coming from St Thomas at Quay Parade

Arches Hotel Quay Parade

First tram arrives at Castle Street

High Street swansea with Tram

A Swansea tram

1905 Tram Terminus High Street

High Street towards Castle Street 1909

Tram in Castle Street 1920, a workers demonstration in progress

Oxford street approaching Dillwyn Street junction

Trams and trains at the Slip

Trams at Beach Street

Tram to High Street

Bush hotel High Street at the turn of the 19th Century

Opposite the Cameron 1905 at High Street Swansea

High Street Swansea 1908

The Swansea High Street 1903

Civic Buildings

The civic centre for Swansea from 1996

Over the years the town of Swansea has had a number of Guildhalls at different locations, with the most famous being the Art-Deco styled Building opened at St Helens in 1934.

Swansea Guildhall in the 1930s with Victoria Park behind

outline sketch for swansea Guildhall

Refferred to by the Germans in propaganda broadcasts as “the Dolls house”

Early multiple postcard views of The Guildhall at Swansea

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Swansea Town Hall in 1912, the canons went for scrap to aid the war effort in WW2

Somerset Place Town Hall Swansea

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Guildhall Somerset Place Swansea.

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Sketty Village

Sketty Cross Swansea seen in 1908

Sketty Cross Swansea

Swansea Sketty Cross in 1908

Sketty Swansea

Sketty Village Swansea from an old postcard