Burry Port, The Station And Station Road c.1960
Photo ref: B472036
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Photo ref: B472036
Photo of Burry Port, The Station And Station Road c.1960

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The little harbour of Burry Port was in times past a busy export terminal for tin and fine anthracite coal. Those days are over; the small port now serves as a pleasant boat marina. The obvious pride of Burry Port's stationmaster is typical of the time—it was considered the stationmaster's duty to make the platform as attractive as possible. This can be seen clearly in the rockery and floral arrangements shown here. The railway line west of Llanelli was the creation of the great days of the coal and tin plate trade.

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Let the train take the strain in this selection of steam train and railway related photographs from The Francis Frith Collection.

A Selection of Memories from Burry Port

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Burry Port

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We lived in Erw Terrace and our garden overlooked Bryn Terrace Elizabeth Jackson(nee Dunn Davies)
The four cottages in this photograph are of Bryn Terrace, formerly named Bryn Cottages where I lived at No 1 with my sister Beryl and our parents Ceinwen and William John Thacker. My grandparents Mary Ann and William George Davies lived next door at No 2, my grandmother's brother Evan Evans and his family at No 3, and David Morris known as 'The Powndyn' with his family at No 4. I was born in 1939 at No 2 in the parlour ...see more
The man standing on the bottom left hand side with the white T-shirt and quiff is my grandad!  He is now seventy.  The car next to him was his first car and his pride and joy!