Loughor, Parc Williams c.1960
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Photo ref: L466019
Photo of Loughor, Parc Williams c.1960

A Selection of Memories from Loughor

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 Loughor

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I lived in Belgrave Rd, Loughor from 1946 to 1957 and would often visit the sandy beach near the bridge with my mam and dad, David Howell Evans and Jenny Evans. I remember my father's brother, Uncle Elfed, diving off the bridge into the water. I was always surprised when he popped up to the surface! Great memories haven't been back in decades.
I remember buying sweets from the sweet shop you can just see the entrance to the shop behind the car in this photograph, you could buy a lot for 3 pence then (late 1950s) and if I remember correctly there was a fish and chip shop around the corner where we bought our fish and chips, they were wrapped up in newspaper, they never tasted better. We used to take our old newspapers down to the shop, they always needed ...see more
I remember walking down to the river with my friends, taking some sandwiches and a bottle of pop, when the tide was really low walking across the river from one side to the other, going spikeing along the river banks for fish, also fishing and catching mullet, swimming and jumping from from bridge into river but only when the tide was going out as you could then swim onto the beach, watching the river run strongly between the two bridges, simple but fun days. Bob