SWANSEA: Salute to a City Souvenir Edition

Book number: 93262 Product format: Hardback Author: DAVID ROBERTS

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Bibliophile price £6.50
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A large sized volume almost entirely pictorial in content with captions, there are rainy day parades, royal visits, a busy day at the Quadrant Bus Station in the early 1980s, a landward view of the city centre from the top of the Meridian Tower 2015, blue sky and sunshine around the Ferris wheel in the grounds of the National Waterfront Museum, rugby players celebrating in style, fire and rescue vehicles, Weaver's Flour Mill before the construction of the river barrage in 1990, the erection of the Liberty Stadium, the steep Constitution Hill, children dressed in period costume, gasholders, a fascinating panorama of the mouth of the River Tawe and Swansea Docks, the original Mumbles Road stand of St Helen?s Rugby, lifeboats and helicopters. The book salutes the city in celebration of the passing of 50 years since Swansea was granted city status. When Charles, then Prince of Wales, declared just two days after his investiture in July 1969 that Swansea was to become a city, he couldn't have realised what an adventurous journey he was launching it on. This is reflected in this fantastic gallery of archive and very nostalgic images, mostly in black and white but with one colour section of 16 pages. 176 very large pages in a Golden Jubilee salute.

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