Swansea, Mumbles & the Gower CoastOfficial album guide . CHILDRENS LAKE - SINGLETON PARK|i1 Copyright: Swansea Corporation SWANSCA, MUMBLES AND TWg GOWER COAST. A^^ Holiday Attractions of Swansea GREAT commercial and industrial centre bv the sea, with miles ofrfect sands and a playground on its western borders of aboutseventy-five square miles of country as romantic and picturesqueas any in Britain ! This reads like a description of a city of ones dreams, but it actually depictsthe very real and thriving county borough of Swansea, the second largesttown in Wales. At the census of 1931 it had a
Swansea, Mumbles & the Gower CoastOfficial album guide . CHILDRENS LAKE - SINGLETON PARK|i1 Copyright: Swansea Corporation SWANSCA, MUMBLES AND TWg GOWER COAST. A^^ Holiday Attractions of Swansea GREAT commercial and industrial centre bv the sea, with miles ofrfect sands and a playground on its western borders of aboutseventy-five square miles of country as romantic and picturesqueas any in Britain ! This reads like a description of a city of ones dreams, but it actually depictsthe very real and thriving county borough of Swansea, the second largesttown in Wales. At the census of 1931 it had a population of 164,825, and isnow estimated to have nearly 170,000 inhabitants. No place of like characterand size in this country holds quite such a dual and unique position, for thereis no other great industrial centre which is also a holiday and health resort. Its varied attractions made Swansea a favourite haunt of holiday-makers whensome of the popular watering-places of to-day were either mere villages ornot yet in existence, for as early as 1S04 it was described as a gav resort offashion and its promenade as displaying an assemblage of beauty and
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