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Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking west toward the newly built apartment blocks in the SA1 development.
©Cedwyn Davies
Dist:0.4km<br/>This photo was taken from outside Tesco, Ilfracombe.
©Roger A Smith
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©Cedwyn Davies
Dist:0.7km<br/>This photograph looks westwards from the A483 Fabian Way pedestrian overbridge. This A road was built during the 1960s to relieve pressure on the narrow Port Tennant Road which until this time was the main thoroughfare. Prior to this development, the land occupied by what became Fabian Way consisted of various coal yards, factories and railway sidings serving the dockyard. A 1950s OS Map shows a wooden barrel factory would have occupied the land directly in front of this overbridge. Garden allotments could be found beyond this factory until the mid-1950s. Prior to 1900, a pathway existed linking Port Tennant Road (near to the base of Baglan Street) and an entry point into the railway and docks complex. The entry point consisted of a tunnel under railway lines and would have been situated where the car wash site begins today (just within the embankment) Passing through the tunnel afforded you access to the original Port Tennant Inn (demolished around 1890) and various branches of the Tennant Canal. This tunnel was blocked sometime c1910 as the dock railway rapidly expanded. Remains of the tunnel entrance could be seen as late as the early 1990s before council landscaping took place. Until the 1990s the car wash site was occupied by a Shell petrol station. Railway lines ran on the embankment on the left until the late 1980s and served Swansea Eastern Depot (Swansea East Dock station until the 1930s).
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Dist:0.7km<br/>A brisk breeze on a fine day providing perfect conditions in Prince of Wales dock, once a hub of maritime industry. The dock was opened by the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, in 1881 and, serviced by GWR, became one of the main coal-exporting centres in the country.
©ceridwen
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©Cedwyn Davies
Dist:0.8km<br/>Kilvey Hill is beyond.
©Deborah Tilley
Dist:0.8km<br/>Seawall defences with fox skeleton and discarded rope
©Cedwyn Davies
Dist:0.8km<br/>Open view of the hotel. May be more built up very soon.
©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.8km<br/>View northward, in the sidings on the north side of East Dock. One of several Locomotive Depots in the Swansea area, this Depot was the ex-GWR one serving the Docks traffic. Coded 87D under BR in the Neath Division, in 1954 it had an allocation of 35:- 3 2-8-2T, 7 2-8-0T, 6 0-6-2T, 16 0-6-0T and 3 0-4-0T: it was closed in 6/64. Collett 2-8-2T No. 7248 was a 10/38 rebuild of Churchward 2-8-0T No. 4249 built 4/16. The 2-8-2Ts and 2-8-0Ts were employed on the heaviest coal trains, mainly on relatively short journeys in South Wales but often they went much further afield into England. In the background is Townhill.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.8km<br/>No. 5783 (built 7/30) had had its day; withdrawn in 3/62, it was dumped at the end of the Yard.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.8km<br/>New building. New life. http://www.waterfrontchurch.org/
©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.8km<br/>Photograph shows the former Vale of Neath Arms public house. This V-shaped building at 111 Fabian Way (SA1 8PA) closed to customers in the mid 1990s. At the time of visiting, there are plans to convert the building into flats. Originally, there were other commercial buildings to the right of this building forming a terrace. The Tennant Canal originally flowed just in front of this building. The level of the backyard represents the original level of the road (ex-Vale of Neath Road) prior to the 1960s construction of artificially raised Fabian Way.
©vectorkraft
Dist:0.9km<br/>Now a restaurant and watersports centre this was formerly the lookout point for the pilots who controlled access into and out of the Swansea docks.
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©Cedwyn Davies

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