The Fforestfach History Website

Reference

 

Books, Booklets, Leaflets and Papers
Alban J.R., City Archivist, Swansea in old picture postcards, 1985, ISBN 9028830928
Bevan Robert, Cardiff University
Brookes Geoff, Swansea Then & Now, 2012, 9780752465258
City & County of Swansea, Gendros Primary Centenary booklet, 1997
City & County of Swansea 2001 Census profile of Fforestfach
City & County of Swansea: Swansea Museum Collection - Mettoy
City & County of Swansea: Swansea Museum Collection - Mettoy
Cleemput Marcel R.Van, The Great Book of Corgi, 1956-1983, 2001, ISBN 1 872727 19 0
Davies Mair and Treweek Joyce, A Hundred Years of Witness 1895-1995 Gendros Congregational Church, 1995
Evans Meurig H. and Thomas O. W.,Y Geiriadur Mawr: Complete Welsh-English, English-Welsh Dictionary, 1998, ISBN978-0850884623
Gabb Gerald, Jubilee Swansea II,1999, ISBN 0 9527151 1 2
Gabb Gerald, Swansea and its History volume I, 2007, ISBN 978-0-95217151-2-2
Goodall Peter J.R., For Whom the Bell Tolls - A Century of Executions, 2005
Hughes Stephen, Copperopollis Landscapes of the Early Industrial Period in Swansea, Revised 2005, ISBN 1-871184-27-4
Lawrence Ray BSc., The Collieries of the Swansea and Swansea Valley General Areas, 2008
Lewis Bernard, Swansea Pals, 2005 ISBN-13: 978-1844152520, pages 161,162,201-205
Mitchell Vic and Smith Keith, Western Main Lines Swansea to Carmarthen, Middleton Press, 2009, ISBN 9781906008598
Nicholson Winifred, Dr. Peter McRichie, 1999, republished 2000
Owen Hywel Wyn & Morgan Richard, Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales, 2007, ISBN 139781843239017
Reynolds Paul, Gower, Journal 32 - Tirdonkin & Cefngyfelach, 1981
Richardson Mike, Collecting Corgi Toys, 2004, ISBN 1870703219
Robins Nigel Alan, Homes for heroes: Early twentieth-century council housing in the County Borough of Swansea, 1992, ISBN 0946001227
Stock Ray, Old Postcard Views of Swansea & District, 1999
Stock Ray, Swansea In The Golden Age Of Postcards, 1995 ISBN 0715407295
Swansea History Project, 4 Site Education, Coal Mining in the Swansea Area: 1. Before 1700
Swansea History Project, 4 Site Education, Tramroads and Industrial Railways
Swansea Museum Collection, South Wales Spectator December 1961 Vol. No. 21
Swansea Museum Collection, South Wales Survey (Part Two) Swansea and Port Talbot - reprinted from British Bulletin of Commerce - Survey 1955
Swansea Museum Collection, South Wales Evening Post 10th March 1969
Swansea Museum Collection, Herald of Wales 29th July 1961
Thomas Eddie interviewed by Jones R. Merfyn, South Wales Miner's Library, AUD/198 transcript
Thomas Norman Lewis, The Story of Swansea Districts and Villages Volume II Parts IV-VIII with Abridged Volume I Parts I - III, 1969
West Glamorgan Education Authority,1991, "It'll All Be Over By Christmas...", by Carolyn Davies, ISBN 095137382
Williams Glanmor (edited), Swansea an Illustrated History, 1990, ISBN 0715407147
Further Reading
Draisey Derick, The Rebecca Riots within ten miles of Swansea, 2010, ISBN9780954654467
Rees Ronald, The black mystery coal-mining in South-West Wales, 2008, ISBN 9780862439675
Maps
Information: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/licensing/copyright/crown-copyright.html
Ordnance Survey Map 1805-74 of the areas.
Ordnance Survey Map published between 1830 and 1845
Ordnance Survey Map 1st Edition - Fforestfach, Cadle, Caereithin, Cockett, Cwmbwrla and Gendros -1879
Ordnance Survey Map 2nd Edition - Fforestfach, Cadle, Caereithin, Cockett, Cwmbwrla and Gendros -1899
Ordnance Survey Map 3rd Edition - Fforestfach, Cadle, Caereithin, Cockett, Cwmbwrla and Gendros - 1916
Ordnance Survey Map 4th Edition - Fforestfach, Cadle, Caereithin, Cockett, Cwmbwrla and Gendros - 1936-47
T Richards and Company - Gwalia Colliery Fforest-fach Map 1903
Tithe Swansea parish map 1838
Tithe Swansea parish Schedule appotionment 1838
Only Trusted Sites Used
www.abertawe.gov.uk/index - Listed buildings
www.cadw.wales.gov.uk - Listed buildings
www.cofiadurcahcymru.org.uk
www.coflein.gov.uk
www.dailymail.co.uk - John Evans
www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page
www.geograph.org.uk - Grid Reference Conversion
www.itouchmap.com - Latitude and Longitude
www.old-maps.co.uk.html
www.parliament.uk - Education & Lord Fforestfach
www.satsig.net, Map Reference
www.swansea.gov.uk - Cambrian online index - (C) [web filtered].
www.vam.ac.uk, A History of Mettoy Ltd.
www.welshcoalmines.co.uk