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Grafton Maggs - Bonfire Night part 2 08 Jan 2025 - Bonfire Night ~ part two The cost of one firework at Dan Morgan’s exceeded the entire budget of a Gloucester Place Bonfire Night! Nowadays, the last consideration for Guy Fawkes Night is the cost... Read More

Grafton Maggs - The Tar Men are coming 08 Jan 2025 - Mumbles Memories 'The Tar-Men are Coming" Written by Grafton Maggs St. David’s Day 2010. Today, the Mumbles weather is at its capricious best. For the past two months, or more... Read More

Grafton Maggs - Origins of Mumbles names 08 Jan 2025 - THE ORIGIN OF MUMBLES NAMES “Save the Best ‘til Last!” Aeons and aeons ago, in the hope of bringing some sense of order to the rapidly expanding, and migrating, population of the world, the Re... Read More

Grafton Maggs - Summer Months 1939 08 Jan 2025 - Summer Months 1939 Seventy Years Ago In Mumbles A retrospect writen by Grafton Maggs August 2009 It was midday and, grinning like a Cheshire cat, I clambered aboard the Mumbles Train at Rutland S... Read More

1947 Lifeboat Disaster 08 Jan 2025 - 1947 Lifeboat Disaster When attending a service in All Saints, writes Richard Porch, I happened to glance up at one of the stained glass windows. I was at once struck by the design and wonde... Read More

A Mumbles Christmas 08 Jan 2025 - A Mumbles Christmas [With apologies to John Betjeman] A MUMBLES CHRISTMAS The bells of waiting Advent ring, The parlour fire is laid again And lamp-oil light across the night Has cau... Read More

All Saints Church Organ 08 Jan 2025 - The Three Manual Organ At All Saints Oystermouth Rebuild 1998 of 1916 Conacher instrument - Percy Daniel and Co. Clevedon - Electro Pneumatic action Parts of the organ at All Saints' date f... Read More

Grafton Maggs - The Demise of the Back Street Shop 08 Jan 2025 - The Demise of the Back Street Shop written by Grafton Maggs In a fit of pique, Napoleon Bonaparte, once contemptuously dismissed the British as being,- “a Nation of Shopkeepers”. I did not a... Read More

Grafton Maggs - Mumbles School Days Between the Wars 08 Jan 2025 - Mumbles School Days Between the Wars Recalled by Grafton Maggs “The Board School” Veteran music hall comedian, Cardew (the Cad) Robinson, was always ... Read More

Grafton Maggs - Salute to Mumbles Homeguard 1940 08 Jan 2025 - Salute to Mumbles Homeguard 1940 Written by Grafton Maggs Seventy five years ago, (on May 17th 1940, to be exact), Alvar Liddell finished reading the nine o’ clock news. It made sa... Read More

Grafton Maggs - Bonfire Night part 1 08 Jan 2025 - Bonfire Night BONFIRE NIGHT. THE LAST OF THE GREAT ONES NOVEMBER 5TH 1938. recalled by Grafton Maggs Over the years, I have been asked, in succession, by my children, grandchildren and great g... Read More

All Saints Church: A Brief History 08 Mar 1983 - The church of All Saints Oystermouth is an amalgam of the very old and the comparatively new. The church is first mentioned in the records in 1141. But there may well have been a church in the area be... Read More