IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Adelaide Street, SWANSEA, SA1 1SB
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Adelaide Street, SA1 1SB by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (333 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Distance
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Exchange Buildings, Swansea
This is the Adelaide Street side of a large building extending into Cambrian Place, built in 1913-1916 to provide a meeting place for ship owners, ship brokers and coal & general cargo exporters and their agents. There were offices available for hire on the floors above the exchange.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Nov 2013
0.01 miles
2
Queen's Hotel, Swansea
On the corner of Gloucester Place and Cambrian Place. The year 1892 is inscribed in stone on the chimneystack on the left. The Queen's Hotel was a favourite haunt of Swansea's most famous son,
the poet and writer Dylan Thomas (1914-1953).
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Nov 2013
0.02 miles
3
Cambrian Place, Swansea
Looking into Cambrian Place from Burrows Place, with Adelaide Street leading off to the left. The Queens Hotel can be seen straight ahead.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 30 Aug 2017
0.02 miles
4
Adelaide Street office block, Swansea
This was the home of the South Wales Evening Post newspaper from 1968 to 2013. The Evening Post moved to nearby new premises in the Urban Village in High Street at the end of September 2013.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Nov 2013
0.02 miles
5
Queens Buildings, Swansea
On the corner of Cambrian Place and Burrows Place, formerly the premises of Burgess and Co, shipping agents. Their name remains on ground floor windows, along with some of the companies with which they did business, such as The Maersk Line, Rowbotham Tankships Ltd and Esso Petroleum Co Ltd.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Nov 2013
0.02 miles
6
Cambrian Place, Swansea
Viewed from the corner of Burrows Place looking along Cambrian Place towards Gloucester Chambers in Gloucester Place.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Nov 2013
0.03 miles
7
Survivors from Swansea's maritime past
This is the Burrows Place side of Queens Buildings, http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3954322 formerly the premises of Burgess and Co Ltd, shipping agents. Each ground floor window shows the company name and a business with which they dealt. In view are Shell International Marine, Esso Petroleum Co Ltd and Statoil. There are many similar windows.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Nov 2013
0.03 miles
8
The Marina Nursing Home in Swansea
The Burrows Place side of the private nursing home which has its main frontage in Gloucester Place. Queens Buildings http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3954322 are in the background.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 28 Nov 2013
0.03 miles
9
Swansea skyline at dusk
Looking over the Tawe to South Dock and the new high rise, somewhat controversial development. The 'Swansea Eye' is seen to the right. Again controversial as nearby residents complain that their homes can be spied on from it!
Image: © Deborah Tilley
Taken: 14 Nov 2009
0.03 miles
10
2016 Swansea Triathlon
Cyclists passing Swansea Museum.
Image: © john bristow
Taken: 5 Jun 2016
0.03 miles