swanseahistory

Accompanying the newspaper stories that I am going to post hopefully every day, any story that grabs my eye, I will write a blog on any more research carried out. Today, January 8th, I posted an article

Last week I set a question. What was the connection between the R.M.S. Titanic and Swansea Cenotaph. This is my answer, however, if you have a different answer feel free to drop me a line. Starting with

I set a question on Saturday evening.......Connections Art, Science, Photography, Politics and Gower. Here is my answer, though you might think you might have a better answer and i welcome them. Lets start

I have started to read 'Dead Man Airbrushed' a novel by Ieuan M. Pugh. The novel is set in early 1960s, and follows the misadventures of Johannes Taliesion at Swansea College of Art. At the beginning of

We have to look back to 1804, to have a good understanding of the beginnings of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway. Back in 1804, the railway was known as the Oystermouth Railway, when built when an Act was

Every family in the United Kingdom had a loved one or knew someone who was killed during the First World War. It must have been really upsetting for a family not to know what happened to a loved one, or

This blog will look at the different side of the Vivian Family and connections with Swansea. We all know about the Vivians who lived at Singleton Abbey and vast industry they owned, with Vivian & Sons,

The next medal below the Victoria Cross awarded for "... acts of the greatest heroism or of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger", is the George Cross. This medal is

Tomorrow, 27th November, marks the 67th anniversary of the sinking of the MV Glenmoor, 27th November 1940 Glenmoor a cargo ship, we built in 1928, by W. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, 4393 grt. Its top

Three years and nearly a month later after the Titanic sunk in 1912, the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk, 7th May 1915, 11 miles off Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. RMS Lusitania built by John Brown

This final blog with Swansea connections to Victoria Cross winners, if that of Francis Octavious Grenfell. His connections with Swansea is a family connections. All will be explained! Grenfell born 1880,

The third man with a connection with Swansea to have been awarded a Victoria Cross, is Allan Leonard Lewis. His connection is that he enlisted at Swansea. Lewis was born February 1895, Whitney-on-Wye,

The second man with a Swansea Connection, is George Prowse. Prowse born 1886, Gilfach Goch, Llantrisant. Information in regards to his young life is uncertain. 1915, the year after after the First World

Last week I wrote an introduction the Victoria Cross, when it was established 1856 not as I wrote 1956, and how many people had been awarded it, Today I will look more closely at those people who have

Last week I wrote a blog about the war graves at St. Hillary's Church, Killay. I just wanted to write a short very short piece. Three men who were killed on the same day, from a plane, the Wellington GR

The Victoria Cross Medal, the highest medal awarded. It is awarded for gallantry "in the face of the enemy", to date there have been 1,358 awarded. In the next series of blogs I would like to

Last week I wrote about the connection with Swansea and Coal, Captain Scott and Edgar Evans. I travelled yesterday back to Surrey from Swansea, and I boarded the wrong train and ended miles away from where

Today I am going to write about the church of St. Hillay's Church, Killay about some of the war graves that are located there and are under the care of the Commonwealth War Grave Commission. I wrote an

Yesterday I wrote about the Swansea people on board the Titantic and new evidence of how the Titanic did sink on that April 1912. The Titantic was powered by coal primarily dug from coal mines of South

Today, I want to write a blog and look a little further back to 1912, and about the Titanic Using extract from an article I wrote for the Bay Magazine and published April 2016. As we know at the time the