Swansea, Mumbles & the Gower CoastOfficial album guide . ,cp\r;^hi S\t\i- ^»riU-- ^*^; .?Ski ,•.^^ix. A part of \ ictoria Park The Market Swansea possesses the largest and most important Market in Wales. It is housedin a spacious, glass-roofed building erected in 1887, covering about two acres,and here, on Saturdays, the musical Cymric tongue can be heard at the busystalls, where the commodities for sale include cockles from the Loughor Estuaryand la\er bread, a dainty made of seaweed gathered from the rocks of (Jower,and esteemed both as a luxury and as a medicine. Beau hJash\<i A tablet i
Swansea, Mumbles & the Gower CoastOfficial album guide . ,cp\r;^hi S\t\i- ^»riU-- ^*^; .?Ski ,•.^^ix. A part of \ ictoria Park The Market Swansea possesses the largest and most important Market in Wales. It is housedin a spacious, glass-roofed building erected in 1887, covering about two acres,and here, on Saturdays, the musical Cymric tongue can be heard at the busystalls, where the commodities for sale include cockles from the Loughor Estuaryand la\er bread, a dainty made of seaweed gathered from the rocks of (Jower,and esteemed both as a luxury and as a medicine. Beau hJash\<i A tablet in the wall of a house in Upper Goat Street records the fact that theRrthrtl 1 ? house marks the place of birth, in 1674, of Richard Nash, famous in the history. Swanseas New Civic Centre, showing the lofty tower From tke Architects drawing of Bath as Beau Nash, master of the ceremonies and arbiter of fashion inthat ancient Spa. After reigning for many years over the social life of Bathlike an autocrat, he died in comparative poverty in 1762. Parks and -?^ ^^ amenities and services which one expects in a well-governed city are provided in full measure in Swansea. Its many parks and recreation grounds Upen Spaces cover an area of 635 acres, and the foreshore accounts for 2,187 acres in Park runs parallel with the sands, and quite near is a fine Marine Paradeimmediately beside the beach. Here is Swanseas War Memorial, a simple anddignified Cenotaph, while in the park is the Patti Pavilion—where dances andother functions are held—and a floral clock which is a popular feature of interestwith visitors. Other beautiful breathing spaces are Cwmdonkin Park, closeto the Corporation Town Hill estate and, in Swanseas West End, Bryn
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