The shopping centre

Oxford Street, pictured here looking east, was one of the main shopping streets in Swansea in Edwardian times, just as it is now. The long building on the right with the twin domes is the market, rebuilt in 1897, just a few years before this picture was taken. In those days it was full of smaller independently-run shops whose signs and banners jostle for attention up above the canopies. Double tram-lines run the length of the street and trams, pedestrians, cyclists and carriages share the space together.

This whole area was destroyed in the Three Nights' Blitz and completely redeveloped after the war.

Next: the shopping centre again

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