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Aerial view of the town centre in the late 1940s
| The distinctive shape of Castle Street looks out across the flattened town centre. The roads are all that are left to give us a clue as to what used to be there. The extensive damage, where hardly anything is left standing between Wind Street and St. Helen's Road, is as a result of the Luftwaffe dropping high explosives initially which destroyed the mains water system then following through with an onslaught of incendiary devices, by which time there was hardly any water left with which to fight the fires. |
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| gareth webber ( ) January 5, 2008 |
| Those bright builings are still standing now -Ben Evans etc After the blitz - there was reconstruction - and after the war - Kingsway etc Boots . Swansea Council really messed up recontruction - still doing much of the same Further to left of this picture was Lewis Lewis Dept Store, the train station and the Mackworth Hotel - still got one of their teapots - ie Mackworth Hotel's Swansea City centre really never recorved from all this due to poor planning Still the same today - last time I saw those buildings as mentioned earlier there were grasses growing from the one on the left Then there was Wind Street and Beau Brummels place next to Castle Gardens Only thing I would say is that they should have restored all those surving building to their former glory - made a start at old docklands but really messsed up there as well with trashy complexes Thank God the Germans did not bomb Mumbles etc - cos everything that was valuable in Swansea (Mumbles railway) wus demolished by the various local idiot politicians Ex Swansea person saddened by all the missed opportunities down there Still remember the Boots picture after the town after the blitz - in the |
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