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Mumbles Pier was opened in 1898 at the terminus of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, which was the world's first horse-drawn public passenger train service.It opened 2 Mar 1807 and used horse power to 1877, then steam power to 1929, when it switched to double deck overhead electric tram power, lasting till the line closed in Jan 1960.
Mumbles Beach is a very small sheltered area of sand and rock pools sandwiched between Swansea Bay beach and Bracelet Bay in the south eastern corner of the Gower Peninsula, Swansea, Wales. A lot of sea life can be found in the pools and under the rocks, left trapped by the retreating tides. [ 1 ]
Designed by W. Sutcliffe Marsh and promoted by John Jones Jenkins of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, the pier opened on 10 May 1898 at a cost of £10,000.It was the western terminus for the world's first passenger carrying horsecar railway, the Swansea and Mumbles Railway; and a major terminal for the White Funnel paddle steamers of P & A Campbell, unloading tourists from routes along the ...
Swansea Beach stretches for five miles along Swansea Bay between the Maritime Quarter and the "Knab Rock" near Mumbles in Wales. It is backed by a promenade/cycle track (part of National Cycle Route 4) and a coastal road. The southern section of the Swansea Bay beach between Blackpill and Mumbles is designated Site of Special Scientific ...
Mumbles Lighthouse, completed in 1794, is a lighthouse located in Mumbles, near Swansea. [3] The structure, which sits on the outer of two islands off Mumbles Head, is clearly visible from any point along the five mile sweep of Swansea Bay. Along with the nearby lifeboat station, it is the most photographed landmark in the village.
Oystermouth Castle, a venue for open air Shakespearean performances The Mumbles light house 1815 Mumbles, 1850s. Archaeological evidence indicates that an ancient submerged forest was located on what is now the foreshore of Mumbles Bay [citation needed] The bones of bears, wolves, hyenas, deer, rhinoceros and mammoth have been discovered there.
1922 Mumbles Lifeboat Station, used until 2014. At a meeting of the Mumbles lifeboat committee in 1905, it was agreed that a boathouse and slipway accessed via the new Mumbles Pier was the way forward. It would be 1916 before the slipway was constructed, and a further 6 years in 1922, before a boathouse on top was completed.
The area is centred on a seafront building on Mumbles Road, which once served as a station and power station for the Swansea and Mumbles Railway; today, it houses a cafe called "The Junction". The land between Mumbles Road and Blackpill beach is used as Blackpill Lido, a family and children's play area which is popular in summer.