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Home  /  Reviews  /  Swansea. The second city of Wales

Swansea. The second city of Wales

Roger Walker May 01, 2018 Reviews Comments are off

There has been someone living in the area of Swansea for over a thousand years. In fact, there is archaeological evidence to suggest that there was a significant palaeolith activity on the site. You can bet that those ancestors would have no need of TV Aerial Installation Swansea but if you do then this website might help https://www.onevisionltd.co.uk/tv-aerial-installation-swansea

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The welsh word for Swansea is Abertawe. As with most welsh place names Aber relates to the mouth of and Swansea is duly at the mouth of the River Tawe. It has a large bay area which as helped to keep it relevant and populous. It became the centre of the area from medieval times onwards. It was the place for trade and was fortified like its rival the capital Cardiff. Unlike Cardiff it only had a Motte and Bailey castle and it was besieged several times without success for the attackers. There has always been a healthy competition between the two cities in rugby and certainly football. Swansea was also near to the Gwent valleys and the ensuring mining industry that was to grow out of them. It only official became a city in 1969

It was tourism in the eighteenth century that ensured the future of the town. At least this what the local council and movers and shakers in the city thought. There was a large influx of workers coming for work away from agriculture and lured by the promise of good work in the mines. The location of the South Wales Coalfields meant that the city was destined to become a large part of the support for the coal and transport of coal out to the wider country. The main support was the production of smelting units for copper ore. Naturally, coal was needed to fuel that industry and that came down to the city from Gwent.

Swansea and its natural bay also allowed for the transfer of the coal and the working populace streamed to the city. The story of Swansea’s growth is a microcosm of the tale of the movement of people from the country to the city, The river Tawe also contributed by providing a route to take the coal down to the city as well as by road.

Swansea is also the scene of some of the most celebrate actions of civil unrest. As the town developed the turnpike trust who charged for the use of roads. Whilst this was considered to be ok and acceptable within the city it was not. There was the start of the then Rebecca Riots and resulted in the setting fire of the Ty Coch gate in protest. At the same time there was as trike by copper workers over pay. It was no successful and the strikers had problems getting work afterwards. Swansea remains a town of change and importance.

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Roger Walker

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