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Swansea Library (Recreated)
Looking northeast up Alexandra Street towards the railway station, the library can be seen on the right.
This is a recreation of the 1925 photo from the Frith collection here: http://www.francisfrith.com/search/wales/west+glamorgan/swansea/photos/swansea_77380.htm
Notice how the top part of the library's central tower is now gone. Also a modern tower block is visible behind the library, beyond the junction. I believe this is called Alexandra House.
Image: © Nigel Davies
Taken: 28 Dec 2006
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Llys Glas, Swansea
Located between Alexandra Road and Orchard Street, Llys Glas was formerly the central police station. It has been converted to student accommodation.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 26 Feb 2012
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BBC studio, Dylan Thomas House, Swansea
Located in the former Central Library at 32 Alexandra Road, on the corner of Clifton Hill. It was from here that Dylan Thomas made many of his radio broadcasts. BBC Wales television productions such as Dr Who and Sherlock have been filmed here.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 6 Dec 2013
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Major building work on a corner in central Swansea
The corner of Alexandra Road and Pleasant Street in early December 2013.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 6 Dec 2013
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New and old, ALEX Design Exchange, Swansea
The corner of Alexandra Road and Pleasant Street viewed on September 12th 2014. Notices on the fenced-off site show Opening Autumn 2014.
The Swansea Open House website states that this new £14 million ALEX Design Exchange is home to the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s award winning School of Industrial Design and Swansea School of Glass. Situated in Swansea’s arts quarter, the recently restored and extended Grade II listed former library is a mix of contemporary and traditional architecture, celebrating its historic position as a seat of learning dating back to 1887. This mixture of new and old continues inside with traditional design techniques and practices taught alongside modern cutting-edge technologies. The building is also home to the £4.7m Institute for Sustainable Design and Cerebra Innovation Centre, two leading research centres in the field of design and innovation.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 12 Sep 2014
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The Forge and some of its products, Swansea
Viewed across Alexandra Road. The Forge is on the corner of Clifton Hill.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 6 Dec 2013
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Former Ragged School in Swansea
On the corner of Pleasant Street and Richard's Place, now Swansea Spirit Healing and Psychic Educational Centre. The inscription in stone over the entrance shows that this is the 1911 rebuild
of the first Ragged School built in 1847 to care for and educate boys and girls of the poor.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 6 Dec 2013
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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This OS cut mark can be found on the Library building, now part of Swansea University. It marks a point 18.608m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 21 Jul 2014
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Clifton Hill
Steep residential street, rising up from Alexandra Road. To the right is the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.
http://www.swansea.gov.uk/
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 21 Jul 2009
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Redevelopment of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in central Swansea
Viewed across Alexandra Road in late April 2014. The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is closed to the public during a multi-million pound redevelopment project which will modernise the 1911 building while conserving its original character.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 27 Apr 2014
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