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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.
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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.
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 ...
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 ]
Mumbles is a community (civil parish) in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, covering the district of the same name. The community covers the areas of Blackpill , Langland, Limeslade, Mayals, Mumbles Head, Newton , Norton, Oystermouth , Thistleboon and West Cross .
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Mumbles Battery is a coastal battery situated on the north coast of the Bristol Channel, overlooking Swansea. It was built around the base of the Mumbles Lighthouse as part of a network of Palmerston Forts which was established in response to fears of French invasion, and was designed to protect Swansea Bay .