| Remember the women from Swansea who chucked in comfy jobs and bought a collapsing cottage? |
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| He used to link up with Chris Llewellyn, who'd start his trek from Swansea. |
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| An investigation revealed that the casual workers had been handing out fliers in Swansea advertising building work. |
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| Local rock fishos have been encountering a few snapper up to three kilograms in the washes south of Swansea. |
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| On the train from Swansea to Carmarthen I sat next to a mobile phone addict. |
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| But Swansea were worthy of their spirited success in a typical blood and thunder derby between Wales's oldest rivals. |
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| I made it out of Swansea in one piece and began my trek up the coast of Wales. |
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| It's a nonsense verse used by everyone from boy scouts to football hooligans, including, presumably the Swansea massive. |
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| Finding teamsters, to transport the hand picked ore to Port Adelaide for smelting at Swansea, proved a major problem. |
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| Swansea are far and away the best side we've played in this division and I could see them running away with it. |
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| The brushes I'd found were a cheap, bargain lot I picked up in Swansea for a couple of quid some time last year. |
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| They were superb at Notts County last week and we want them to try and outshout the Swansea supporters. |
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| He taught at Swansea Grammar School, a middle-class fee-paying establishment, for thirty-six years. |
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| Dr Trevor Pickersgill, a specialist registrar in neurology in Swansea, said that doctors were demoralised by unattributed briefings. |
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| Preparations are forging ahead for a judicial review, which will come before a High Court judge in Swansea. |
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| The Swansea ATC Band headed the carnival procession, and the enormous enthusiasm of carnival entrants made up for the lack of numbers. |
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| At Swansea, the ore was smelted using huge quantities of cheap coal, producing a poisoned landscape. |
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| I think the sides who currently occupy the top six, Hull, Oxford, Doncaster, Yeovil, Swansea and ourselves are a class apart. |
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| Princess Lilian was born Lilian Davies in Swansea, Wales, in August 1915 and moved to London aged 16 to follow a modelling career. |
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| But after running the rule over the club's playing squad in pre-season, he's liked what he's seen and can't wait for the first whistle at Swansea tomorrow. |
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| Swansea approached the owner of the arena in Arles, got the gig, and set to work. |
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| She was bound from Swansea for St John, New Brunswick, Canada, with a general cargo, including 1300 tons of tinplate and, oddly enough, Christmas puddings and bicycles. |
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| Two chimps are going to a private sanctuary near Swansea and a number of big cats including lynx, plus larger monkeys will be rehomed on Armathwaite Hall Estate in Cumbria. |
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| Returning to Cardiff, he became a supernumerary registrar to the medical school before leaving to become a general practitioner in the Swansea Valley. |
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| This year National Tree Day saw sixty-five Swansea primary school students assist in assembling miniature igloos for the local penguin population. |
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| Swansea enlisted the Brooklyn-based architect Ben Krone, and together they created an image. |
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| This is the pub crawl along a seaside stretch of watering holes in Wales, near Swansea, that apparently used to be a regular night out for Dylan Thomas. |
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| Pollyann, 40, who runs the Tanwood School of Dancing, helped to choreograph Catherine's dances when she attended the Hazel Johnson School of Dancing in Swansea. |
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| This had a great bearing on the development of the city of Swansea and other nearby towns such as Morriston. |
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| From 1804 until the 1920s, Swansea experienced continuous population growth. |
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| The Royal Institution of South Wales was founded in 1835 as the Swansea Literary and Philosophical Society. |
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| Fluellen Theatre Company is a professional theatre company based in Swansea who perform at the Grand Theatre and the Dylan Thomas Centre. |
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| Every autumn, Swansea hosts a Festival of Music and the Arts, when international orchestras and soloists visit the Brangwyn Hall. |
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| In 2009 Swansea Council launched Wales's only week long St David's Week festival in venues throughout the city. |
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| The city has three Grade One listed buildings, these being Swansea Castle, the Tabernacle Chapel, Morriston and the Swansea Guildhall. |
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| Swansea Castle was once an impressive building occupying a strategic position above the River Tawe but it is now hemmed in by other buildings. |
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| The Tabernacle Chapel at Morriston was built in 1872 by John Humphreys of Swansea. |
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| Throughout the 19th century, the Vivian family did much to develop Swansea into a city. |
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| Swansea is also the home town of 2013 ITU Triathlon World Champion Non Stanford. |
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| Known as the 'All Whites', Swansea kept a constant supply of players that filled the Welsh ranks in the early history of the game. |
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| St Helens Rugby and Cricket Ground is the home of Swansea RFC and Glamorgan County Cricket Club have previously played matches there. |
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| Swansea Synagogue and Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall are both located in the Uplands area. |
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| Swansea originally developed as centre for metals and mining, especially the copper industry, from the beginning of the 18th century. |
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| Economic activity and employment rates in Swansea were slightly above the Welsh average in October 2008, but lower than the UK average. |
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| Swansea is home to the DVLA headquarters based in Morriston which employs around 6,000 people in the city. |
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| In 2015 Swansea University opened a new Bay Campus situated in the Jersey Marine area of Swansea. |
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| Other establishments for further and higher education in the city include University Of Wales Trinity Saint David and Gower College Swansea. |
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| Independent schools in Swansea include Ffynone House School and Oakleigh House School. |
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| The Council also produces a free monthly newspaper called the Swansea Leader. |
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| Swansea Life is a monthly lifestyle magazine published and distributed in Swansea. |
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| Providing the DAB service, the local multiplex called Swansea SW Wales is broadcast from Kilvey Hill. |
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| This transmitter also provides digital terrestrial television in the Swansea area. |
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| Independent filmmakers Undercurrents and Studio8 are based in Swansea, and the city plays host to the BeyondTV Film Festival. |
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| Swansea was the first city in Wales to feature in its own version of the board game Monopoly. |
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| Swansea was featured in several Yes Minister series as an undesirable civil service posting, in particular the vehicle licensing centre. |
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| The regional headquarters for the Swansea area is Swansea Central Police Station. |
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| Swansea Airport is one of the country's three Wales Air Ambulance bases, the others being Welshpool and Caernarfon. |
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| The electricity distribution network operator supplying Swansea is Western Power Distribution. |
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| Welsh Water provides drinking water supply and wastewater services to Swansea. |
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| Reservoirs which supply Swansea include the Cray reservoir and the Lliw Reservoirs, which are operated by Welsh Water. |
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| Car crime is a central theme in the film Twin Town, which was set in and around Swansea and Port Talbot. |
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| Many matches between these sides have ended in violence in both Swansea and Cardiff. |
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| The A48 and the M4 connect Swansea with Neath, Port Talbot and Cardiff to the east and Carmarthen to the west. |
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| On departing Swansea to the north, the A483 multiplexes with the A48 before continuing through mid Wales and eventually terminating at Chester. |
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| Since Veolia's withdrawal from Swansea, these services were operated by First Cymru for several years, and are now operated by NAT Group. |
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| Ann Carvalho of Swansea said she likes the site and as a dealer, she's sold a few repurposed things that didn't move as their old selves. |
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| These include the cities of Cardiff, Swansea and Newport which are unitary authorities in their own right. |
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| The emerging industrial period commenced around the development of copper smelting in the Swansea area. |
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| Bombing raids brought major loss of life as the German Air Force targeted the docks at Swansea, Cardiff and Pembroke. |
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| In addition to Cardiff, Newport and Swansea, the communities of Bangor, St Asaph and St Davids also have city status in the United Kingdom. |
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| The Apostolic Church holds its annual Apostolic Conference in Swansea each year, usually in August. |
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| The city of Swansea is the largest settlement on the Welsh coast of the Bristol Channel. |
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| He investigated industrial pollution at Swansea and was consulted on air pollution at the Royal Mint. |
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| In 2008 he received an Honorary Fellowship from Swansea University for his work in particle physics. |
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| Major towns and cities along the route include Slough, Reading, Swindon, Bristol, Newport, Cardiff and Swansea. |
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| In 2011, a Welsh club participated in the Premier League for the first time after Swansea City gained promotion. |
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| Chelsea, along with Arsenal, were the first club to play with shirt numbers, on 25 August 1928 in their match against Swansea Town. |
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| In 1926, Ireland went into their final Five Nations match unbeaten and with the Grand Slam at stake lost to Wales in Swansea. |
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| By the 1881 census, Cardiff had overtaken both Merthyr and Swansea to become the largest town in Wales. |
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| The M4 is the principal motorway in the region that connects Cardiff with Swansea to the west, and Newport and London to the east. |
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| National Express and Megabus provides direct services to major cities such as Swansea, London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Manchester. |
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| Govinda's temple and restaurant, run by the Hare Krishnas in Swansea, is a focal point for many Welsh Hindus. |
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| The South Wales Main Line links London Paddington with Swansea, entering Wales through the Severn Tunnel. |
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| In the western extent, from Swansea westwards, local people might feel that they live in both south Wales and west Wales. |
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| It was relocated to Swansea in 1910 at a site directly opposite the Sainsbury's supermarket on the River Tawe. |
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| The busiest stations are Cardiff Central, Swansea, Pontypridd, and Newport. |
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| The charter gave Swansea the status of a borough, granting the townsmen, called burgesses certain rights to develop the area. |
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| It included land around Swansea Bay as far as the River Tawe, the manor of Kilvey beyond the Tawe, and the peninsula itself. |
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| The port of Swansea initially traded in wine, hides, wool, cloth and later in coal. |
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| In 1969, Swansea was granted city status, to mark Prince Charles's investiture as the Prince of Wales. |
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| In 1996, Swansea became one of 22 unitary authorities with the addition of part of the former Lliw Valley Borough. |
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| Swansea was once a staunch stronghold of the Labour Party which, until 2004, had overall control of the council for 24 years. |
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| The most populated areas of Swansea are Morriston, Sketty and the city centre. |
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| The trial, in Swansea, lasted 53 days, ending on the day of the investiture. |
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| He was also appointed Chancellor of Swansea University in 2011, a post he held until his death. |
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| In his 1777 work State of the Prisons prison reformer John Howard mentions two Welsh jails, Caernarfon county jail and Swansea town jail. |
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| It is the terminus, and from here, trains depart every two hours to Manchester Piccadilly via Carmarthen, Swansea, and Cardiff Central. |
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| Designed by Swansea architect, Jernigan, it was built for the storage of whale oil awaiting shipment for sale in London. |
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| This included the discovery of a chalybeate spring in his own park at Middleton Hall, and coaching inns from Swansea to Narberth. |
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| Compared to nearby cities, the new St David's Centre has more retail space than the whole of Newport or Swansea. |
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| This was at the same time of the announcement of electrification of the South Wales Main Line from Cardiff to Swansea. |
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| In July 2012, the government announced that the final portion of the Great Western, from Cardiff to Swansea, would be electrified. |
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| Cork is twinned with Cologne, Coventry, Rennes, San Francisco, Swansea and Shanghai. |
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| Further west is Swansea Bay and the Gower Peninsula, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. |
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| Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, and Swansea University now all award their own degrees. |
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| Glamorgan contains two cities, Cardiff, the county town and from 1955 the capital city of Wales, and Swansea. |
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| The main heavy industry of note during this period was copper smelting, and this was centred on the towns of Swansea and Neath. |
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| Easy access to Cornish ores and a local outcropping of coal near the surface, gave Swansea economic advantages in the smelting industry. |
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| During the war both Cardiff and Swansea were targets for German air attacks due to their important docks. |
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| The major settlements of the region include Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot. |
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| Conversely, the borough electorate, in Cardiff, Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil had been greatly expanded. |
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| The first chairman of the County Council was Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea. |
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| Although most of these attacks occurred in Carmarthenshire, there were reports of attacks within Glamorgan, most notably in Swansea. |
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| Swansea also suffered a vast reduction on trade with the end of the area as a world leader in copper smelting. |
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| Names given by Norse settlers, such as Swansea, Fishguard and Anglesey, tended to be adopted in English usage but not by the Welsh. |
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| An increasing number of cities and towns across Wales including Cardiff, Swansea and Aberystwyth also put on parades throughout the day. |
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| From 2003 to 2011 it was held in Swansea, and from 2012 the convention has taken place in Cheltenham. |
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| In 1922, he was appointed as a lecturer in Welsh at the University College of Wales, Swansea. |
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| Vernon Watkins was born in Maesteg in Glamorgan, and brought up mainly in Swansea. |
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| He met Dylan Thomas, who was to be a close friend, in 1935 when Watkins had returned to a job in a bank in Swansea. |
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| A portrait of Watkins by his friend Alfred Janes may be seen in the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. |
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| In 2007 a collection of Williams' papers was deposited at Swansea University by his daughter Merryn, herself a poet and author. |
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| In 1934 the 16 panels were purchased by Swansea Council and are now housed in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. |
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| In 1954 an Arts Council exhibition of his work toured Britain, visiting Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Swansea, Edinburgh and the Tate Gallery in London. |
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| He later wrote about the devastation in his radio play entitled Return Journey to Swansea. |
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| After the war Janes returned to Swansea and resumed his teaching at the Swansea School of Art and Crafts and his painting. |
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| In 1999 the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, held a retrospective exhibition of his work. |
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| This action was ideal as geographically, Bridgend stands equidistantly between both Swansea to the west and Cardiff to the east. |
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| Bridgend's geographical position means South Wales rivals Cardiff City and Swansea City pick up support from the town. |
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| The Cambrian Pottery was founded in 1764 by William Coles in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales. |
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| Between 1814 and 1817, Dillwyn produced the renowned Swansea china or Swansea porcelain. |
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| In the 1880s and 1890s, home Welsh internationals were played at Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Llanelli. |
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| Swansea continued to be used as an international venue until 1954, when Cardiff Arms Park became Wales' primary home venue. |
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| Initially, it was planned to have a region playing at Stradey Park, with players coming from Llanelli, Swansea and Neath. |
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| This was then modified to have Llanelli and Swansea merging, while Neath joined with Bridgend. |
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| Their main home ground is the Liberty Stadium, Swansea, although some smaller profile games have been played at the Brewery Field, Bridgend. |
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| The Ospreys part of the team's name was inspired by the use of the bird as Swansea RFC's centenary badge. |
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| Aberdare Athletic, Cardiff City, Merthyr Town, Newport County, Swansea City and Wrexham have all been members of the Football League. |
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| Swansea City represent England when playing in European competitions, although they have represented Wales in the past. |
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| The club changed their name in 1969, when they adopted the name Swansea City to reflect Swansea's new status as a city. |
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| Swansea have played their home matches at the Liberty Stadium since 2005, having previously played at the Vetch Field since the club was founded. |
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| In 1969, the club name was changed to Swansea City, and Roy Bentley's side celebrated by securing promotion back to the Third Division. |
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| Coincidentally, the Swansea decline started the same year as the Wimbledon rise. |
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| Swansea had swept from the basement division to the top of the entire Football League in barely three years. |
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| That same season, Swansea won the Football League Trophy for the first time since 1994, and the FAW Premier Cup for a second successive year. |
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| That same season Swansea lost on penalties to Milton Keynes Dons in the area final of the Football League Trophy. |
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| Sousa subsequently left Swansea to take charge at Leicester City on 5 July 2010, lasting just one year and 13 days in South Wales. |
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| Swansea finished their debut Premier League season in 11th, but at the end of the season Brendan Rodgers left to manage Liverpool. |
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| This saw Swansea joint top of the Premier League, making it the first time since October 1981 the team had been at the summit of the top tier. |
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| Swansea finished the season in ninth place in the Premier League, improving upon the league standing achieved in the previous season. |
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| Defender Garry Monk, a Swansea player since 2004, was named as his replacement. |
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| On 9 December 2015, Swansea City announced that they had parted ways with manager Garry Monk after one win in eleven matches. |
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| The takeover was confirmed by Swansea City, but chairman Huw Jenkins remained at the club. |
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| The site was owned by Swansea Gaslight Company in 1912, but was deemed surplus to requirements at the Gas Company. |
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| On 23 July 2005, The Liberty Stadium was officially opened as Swansea faced Fulham in a friendly game. |
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| Swansea City's main rivals are Cardiff City, with the rivalry described as among the most hostile in British football. |
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| To a lesser extent, Swansea City's other rivals are Bristol City, Bristol Rovers and Newport County. |
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| Since then Swansea have gone on to win the League Cup once, the Football League Trophy twice and the Welsh Cup a further nine times. |
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| In the club's first season, Whittaker led Swansea to their first Welsh Cup win. |
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| While still at school, Charles joined the boys section of the local team Swansea Town, who later became Swansea City. |
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| These included Everton, Sunderland, Oldham Athletic, Swansea City, Leeds United and Tranmere Rovers. |
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| He is a passionate Swansea City supporter, and has appeared at the Liberty Stadium with his championship belts. |
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| Most programming and presenters is shared with sister stations Radio Carmarthenshire, Radio Pembrokeshire, Bridge FM and Swansea Bay Radio. |
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| She performed the title song on the opening night in the Grand Theatre, Swansea. |
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| The event was held in Swansea on 19 June 2014, where Tyler performed alongside her brother Paul Hopkins. |
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| In 2016, she was honoured by the Lord Mayor of Swansea for Services to Music. |
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| In June 2006, a Badfinger convention took place in Swansea, featuring a performance by Bob Jackson. |
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| On April 27, 2013 an official blue plaque was unveiled by the Swansea City Council to honour Pete Ham in his home town of Swansea. |
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| Later that year, the band played in front of 50,000 people at Morfa Stadium in Swansea. |
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| She was educated at the Dumbarton House School, a private school in Swansea. |
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| In 1981 she played the lead role of Annie in a Swansea production of the musical, which was staged at the Swansea Grand Theatre. |
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| From the age of 11 he attended Dynevor School, a state grammar school in central Swansea. |
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| Pembrokeshire is connected via the West Wales Lines to Swansea and from there by the main line to Cardiff and Paddington. |
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| The Heart of Wales Line has services from Swansea to Shrewsbury via Llanelli and Llandrindod four or five times a day. |
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| Ireland and Wales initiated a joint leatherback conservation effort between Swansea University and University College Cork. |
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| Place names such as Skokholm, Skomer, and Swansea remain as evidence of the Norse settlement. |
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| The proposed Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay in Wales, United Kingdom would be the first tidal power station of this type once built. |
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| The county boroughs of Swansea, Cardiff and Newport would be retained, but the small county borough of Merthyr Tydfil would become a district. |
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| Pembrokeshire and Swansea Bay became centres of the petrochemical industry and new light industry was attracted to locations throughout Wales. |
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| Swansea Coastguard scrambled a Rescue helicopter from RAF Chivenor and sent Watchet and Minehead Coastguard rescue teams to the scene. |
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| The spirit of the Swansea defenders was typified by Elaine Kidwell, at just 17 the youngest air-raid warden in Britain. |
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| Aluminium foil trays Many authorities in Wales, including Newport and Swansea, allow clean aluminum foil and food trays to be recycled. |
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| However, all that will change tonight when 21-year-old Jasmin Leigh Morris, from Swansea, makes her bid for stardom. |
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| Cardiff should prove too strong for Radnorshire while Swansea play Severn Valley and Pontardawe face Islwyn. |
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| The other sites facing the chop are in Liverpool, Sheffield, Swansea, Welling, Wolverhampton and Kingston upon Hull. |
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| The local newspaper is the Swansea edition of the South Wales Evening Post. |
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| Karen Andrews, 35, a mother-of-one from Gorseinon, Swansea, opened a letterbomb on February 7 in the DVLA's mail room. |
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| The Swansea centre has revealed that it is processing 2,000 requests a day for duplicate or replacement log books. |
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| Among the 10 establishments to be given a score of zero were the Smiths Arms on Samlet Road in Swansea and the Savoy Social Club in Barry. |
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| Bobby Scrine, Daniel Richards and Stuart James all crossed for the Swansea side. |
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| The electrical engineer and property developer climbed over a fence and ran into scrubland behind Swansea railway station. |
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| Wildlife typically found W n Swansea Bay's rock pools includes common hermit crabs, common starfish and grey sea slugs. |
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| Swansea aren't going down without a fight at the Etihad and Pantilimon has to be on hand to twice deny Jonjo Shelvy from range. |
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| It is why Vangelis Moras is relaxed about the prospect of making his Premier League bow for Swansea City. |
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| Now a fishing boat skipper has netted a 12ft Thresher shark in Swansea Bay. |
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| Myweekend started yesterday when I delivered my chamber organ to St Mary's Church in Swansea. |
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| Sunburned Hand of The Man, Monkey Cafe Bar, Swansea, Wednesday Skronky free-folk from cape-draped mountain men. |
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| He would regularly go with the players to Swansea bars such as Spoofers and Quids Inn and clubs like Jumpin'Jaks and Time and Envy. |
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| Port Nolloth in Namaqualand, on South Africa's arid Atlantic coast, became familiar to Swansea seamen, so too Tilt Cove in Newfoundland. |
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| Born in a Swansea council house on September 8, 1921, Sir Harry was the son of a travelling salesman. |
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| Time stood still in Swansea as the official clock-watcher protested at his job being axed after 30 years. |
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| Bruce admitted there was a 'lot of nerviness and edginess around' as Hull held out, even if Swansea were hardly peppering the Tigers' goal. |
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| Glenn Roeder is expected to rubber-stampt the signing of 15-year-old Swansea schoolboy Scott Tyer. |
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| C Ltd, Vetch Field, Swansea SA1 3SU Tel 01792 474114 ODEA, Vicky Governor, HM Prison Swansea. |
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| On Wednesday, May 27, why not visit lovely Craig y nos Country Park in the Upper Swansea Valley? |
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| The atmosphere was brilliant, the Swansea fans outsung the Cardiff fans no problem at all. |
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| Behnaz's parents, who run Dagwoods snack shop in Swansea, Wales, immigrated from Iran and Behnaz was born in Wales. |
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| Gestede won the header then won the second ball and Blackburn won the tie as Swansea pushed and Conway drove a daisycutter underneath Fabianski. |
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| The budgies were in a cage and the African house snake in a plastic vivarium when they were found at the end of a narrow road in Swansea. |
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| The players can quickly get Saturday's 3-1 FA Cup second round defat to Swansea out of their systems when they travel to Wycombe tomorrow. |
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| Former Swansea City striker Mamady Sidibe returns to action for Gillingham against Cardiff City on Saturday. |
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| The Swansea star's father is a season-ticket holder at St James' Park and most of his relatives and friends are die-hard Toon fans. |
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| Terry Perdue, 44, of Trallwn Road, Swansea, a father of two, admitted failing to pay PS327,972 to HMRC in VAT returns. |
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| Any request to the UK AUT to greylist the university would only be made after full consultation with Swansea AUT members. |
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| Roberto martinez believes it would have suited Swansea City if Kenny Jackett had been in the Millwall dug-out tonight. |
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| The woman died in the incident, which happened at around 4am at the eastbound slip road at Llangyfelach, Swansea. |
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| The Wearside outfit appeared to have resolved their early-season defensive porousness against Swansea City at the weekend. |
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| Horologist David Mitchell, 72, stopped the clocks at midnight across Swansea in protest at his job being axed after 30 years. |
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| Yesterday afternoon Swansea Fresh Fish brought in a filleter to cut the huge flatfish into steaks. |
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| Helen Iles, an independent film-maker from Swansea, is now based in Melbourne, where she has made her new film. |
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| Swansea railway station is located 10 minutes from Swansea bus station by foot. |
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| Swansea Airport is a minor aerodrome situated in the Gower providing recreational flights only. |
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| Swansea Marina to the south of the city centre has berths for 410 leisure boats. |
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| Further leisure boating berths are being constructed at the Prince of Wales Dock in the Swansea Docks complex. |
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| Swansea Bay, Mumbles and Gower are home to various parks and gardens and almost 20 nature reserves. |
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| Swansea has a range of activities including sailing, water skiing, surfing, and other watersports, walking and cycling. |
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| Cardiff was soon among the most important coal ports in the world and Swansea among the most important steel ports. |
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| The communities in the urban areas of the cities of Cardiff, Swansea and Newport do not have community councils. |
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| He left the Swansea legal practice to become a tutor at Cardiff University for two years on the Bar Vocational Course. |
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| With the growth of Swansea and Cardiff, this situation changed, but many churchmen opposed it. |
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| In October 1925, Thomas enrolled at Swansea Grammar School for boys, in Mount Pleasant, where his father taught English. |
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| The prize, administered by the Dylan Thomas Centre, is awarded at the annual Swansea Bay Film Festival. |
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| It deals with the journey from Swansea via the BBC to New York City and beyond. |
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| This win gave Swansea the honour of being the first club team to have beaten all three major Southern Hemisphere touring teams. |
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| One of the buildings at Swansea University is also named after him, while a main distributor road in Sunderland is named the Keir Hardie Way. |
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| The peninsula is bounded by the Loughor Estuary to the north and Swansea Bay to the east. |
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| In 1974 it was merged with the county borough of Swansea, to form the Swansea district. |
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| When the last male heir of the de Braose family died, Despenser was able to obtain the de Braose lands around Swansea. |
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| Through the rest of 1940, Swansea was targeted by single and small groups of enemy bombers. |
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| To raise morale following the blitz, the King and Queen as well as the prime minister, Winston Churchill, visited Swansea. |
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| In October, CCTV pictures of two cage fighters on a stag night in Swansea dressed as women easily beating off an attack by surprised drunk men became a global internet hit. |
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| Cities like Lynmouth or Swansea or London a million, grillion times over. |
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| With a rapidly deteriorating Vetch Field, Swansea looked to relocate. |
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| Other areas tackled under the clean-up scheme since January included Goitre Lane, Gurnos, Tai Mawr Way, Swansea Road, Balaclava Road, Dowlais and the Gutty in Quakers Yard. |
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| On 1 July 2012, it was widely reported in national media that Swansea City were beginning the planning phase for expanding the Liberty Stadium by approximately 12,000 seats. |
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| The Swansea Docks complex is owned and operated by Associated British Ports and is used to handle a range of cargo ranging from agribulks and coal to timber and steel. |
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| Swansea Docks consists of three floating docks and a ferry terminal. |
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| The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was built in 1804 to move limestone from the quarries of Mumbles and coal from the Clyne valley to Swansea and to the markets beyond. |
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| A number of beaches around Swansea Bay are promoted to visitors. |
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| The 28-year-old from Swansea has been stewing on his second defeat in 30 fights ever since and hopes to end the soul-searching by crushing Alvarez. |
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| It was a lead they deserved and although the boot of Josh Hammett kept Swansea in the game, it didn't prove to be enough as they were shocked by their bitter rivals. |
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| Swansea Bay, Mumbles and Gower have a selection of golf courses. |
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| Swansea has a range of pubs, bars, clubs, restaurants and a casino. |
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| Swansea had two casinos until 30 August 2012 when Aspers closed. |
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| The coal mined in the valleys was transported south along railways and canals to ports on the Bristol Channel, notably Cardiff, Newport and Swansea. |
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| However, Swansea very rarely meet Newport as they are currently separated by three divisions, while the two clubs share a mutual rivalry with Cardiff City. |
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| Following Swansea City's promotion to the Championship, the clubs were drawn in the League Cup which would be the first meeting between both sides for nine years. |
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| The Kardomah Gang was an intellectual circle centred on the poet Dylan Thomas and poet and artist Vernon Watkins in Swansea, which also included the painter Alfred Janes. |
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| Historically, there have been suffragan bishops both before and since disestablishment, including two Bishops of Swansea and one Bishop of Maenan. |
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| Within Wales, medical undergraduate education is provided by only Cardiff University, while graduate fast track route training is provided at Swansea University. |
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| In 1935 Swansea became the first club side to beat the All Blacks. |
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| Though not as intense as they once were, due to divisional differences, Cardiff City, Swansea City, Walsall and Crewe Alexandra can be classed as rivals. |
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| The cherry picker rolled in to their street in Uplands, Swansea, to lift Zahra up to the top of the tree, where the native South American bird happily hopped onto her arm. |
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| His widow, Glenda, bequeathed his ashes to the city of Swansea. |
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| Hopkins made his first professional stage appearance in the Palace Theatre, Swansea, in 1960 with Swansea Little Theatre's production of Have a Cigarette. |
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| Swansea were not in a period of particular growth and the only two players showing any flair were Wales Schoolboy players Willie Davies and Haydn Tanner. |
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| He has also managed several others clubs including Swansea City, who he took from the Fourth Division to the First in four seasons, and two spells with Real Madrid. |
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| The game involving Llanrug United and FC Nomads was a victim of the weather, but the other clash between AAA Chirk and Penlan Club from Swansea went ahead. |
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| Cardiff Central offers connections to the South Wales Valleys, the Vale of Glamorgan and West Wales, and Swansea offers connections to West Wales. |
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| Cooke was born in Swansea, and grew up in Wick, Vale of Glamorgan. |
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| The population resides mainly in villages and small communities, though suburban development has made a number of communities in eastern Gower part of the Swansea Urban Area. |
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| However, the South Wales Main Line branch of the Great Western Main Line used by services from London Paddington to Cardiff and Swansea, is undergoing electrification. |
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| Since 1996 Gower has been part of the City and County of Swansea. |
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| Carmarthen town is served by rail links to Cardiff via Swansea to the east and Fishguard Harbour, Milford Haven, Tenby, Pembroke and Pembroke Dock to the west. |
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| Other winners included Rasoi Indian Kitchen in Swansea, Maahis in Wrexham, Myristica in Bristol, Jaipur Palace in Plymouth and Pappadoms in Westonsuper-Mare. |
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| The ore was broken into small lumps by hand, the best ore being shipped to Lancashire or to the Lower Swansea valley in South Wales through the port of Swansea for smelting. |
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| A replica of this is in the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea. |
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| A deputation of tradesmen and working men who attended a meeting at Swansea to request to offer himself once again as a candidate but he eventually declined. |
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| The following year the company gave its first performances in Swansea. |
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| In 1975, Davis was spotted singing with her band in the Townsman Club, Swansea, by talent scout Roger Bell, who invited her to London to record a demo track. |
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| Wartime action caused losses near Holyhead, Milford Haven and Swansea. |
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| People from Swansea are known locally as Swansea Jacks, or just Jacks. |
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| The main population and industrial areas are in South Wales, consisting of the coastal cities of Cardiff, Swansea and Newport, and the South Wales Valleys to their north. |
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| Playing under various names including The Black Velvets and the Wild Ones, by 1964 they settled on The Iveys, after a street in Swansea called Ivey Place. |
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| The group secured concerts around Swansea area, opening for prominent British groups such as the Spencer Davis Group, The Who, The Moody Blues and The Yardbirds. |
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| Mark Spackman, prosecuting, said that they had entered into an agreement with a firm called Stemma Legal Services, based in Upper Killay, Swansea. |
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| Tenby railway station is maintained and served by Arriva Trains Wales, with regular hourly services to Swansea and onwards to London Paddington via First Great Western. |
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| The nearby pier was opened in 1898 at the terminus of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, which in its time was one of the oldest passenger railways in the world. |
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| He said yesterday, 'I have received a number of complaints from Swansea residents, who are totally bamboozled by the fact there is not a public telephone at the national pool. |
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| Without Michu and Bony, Swansea were punchless in attack, although Valencia captain Jeremy Mathieu cleared Vazquez's effort off the line in the dying seconds. |
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| Half of peak High Speed Trains and most off peak trains continue from Cardiff Central to Swansea, with a few continuing to Carmarthen or in summer, Pembroke Dock. |
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| The local service between Swansea and Cardiff is branded Swanline. |
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| Typical of the west of Britain, Swansea has a temperate oceanic climate. |
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| The stations serving Fishguard are on the West Wales Line, that continuing from Swansea as the South Wales Main Line and Great Western Main Line to London Paddington. |
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| The South Wales Coalfield reaches the coast in the Swansea area. |
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| A competition arose between Swansea and Cardiff about where the college should be located and on 12 March 1883, after a period of arbitration, the location was set as Cardiff. |
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| Swansea is bounded by Swansea Bay and the Bristol Channel to the south. |
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| In November 2008, Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea Universities decided to exercise their right to register students to study for their own awarded degrees. |
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| This led to calls from the vice chancellors of the universities of Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Glamorgan and Swansea for the University of Wales to be wound up. |
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| Through the 20th century, heavy industries in the town declined, leaving the Lower Swansea Valley filled with derelict works and mounds of waste products from them. |
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