IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Kingsway, SWANSEA, SA1 5JE
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to The Kingsway, SA1 5JE 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
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (169 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Vacant former Koopas bar and club premises, The Kingsway, Swansea
Viewed in April 2014. A local newspaper reported in January 2013 that Koopas
had lost its licence after it failed to comply with safety and security regulations.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 27 Apr 2014
0.01 miles
2
Nationwide, The Kingsway, Swansea
Building society branch, New Oxford House, The Kingsway.
Nationwide was the biggest UK building society that did not convert to a bank in the so-called demutualisations in the decade from the late 1980s. It is now bigger than all the other remaining UK building societies combined.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 11 Mar 2012
0.03 miles
3
The Kingsway, Swansea
View down Kingsway from outside the YMCA. The Odeon cinema and Top Rank Suite can be seen in the middle distance and Kilvey Hill rises up in the background. This was taken on a Sunday if my memory serves me right so note the lack of traffic. Shops were still closed on Sundays in 1979.
Image: © Brian Whittle
Taken: 6 May 1979
0.03 miles
4
Icehouse, Oceana, Swansea
Viewed across The Kingsway. Oceana is a UK chain of nightclubs, multi-room venues with each room themed on a different city, each with a different music style. Icehouse is themed on Reykjavik, Iceland.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 27 Apr 2014
0.04 miles
5
The Potters Wheel, Swansea
Extending for 50 metres along The Kingsway, this Wetherspoon pub is on the corner of Dillwyn Street, named after the Dillwyn family which owned the local Cambrian Pottery. Famous for its fine porcelain, the pottery was run from 1802-1817 by Lewis Weston Dillwyn, who was later the Mayor of Swansea.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 27 Apr 2014
0.04 miles
6
Tŷ Gwalia, Swansea
Tŷ Gwalia, 7-13 The Kingsway, is the Swansea office of Grŵp Gwalia Cyf, a major provider of social housing and care services in south and mid Wales. Gwalia manages more than 10,000 units of accommodation.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 27 Apr 2014
0.04 miles
7
Tŷ Gwalia, Swansea
Tŷ Gwalia, 7-13 The Kingsway, is the Swansea office of Grŵp Gwalia Cyf, a major provider of social housing and care services in south and mid Wales. Gwalia manages more than 10,000 units of accommodation.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 11 Mar 2012
0.04 miles
8
Food 2 Go and City Barbers in Swansea
Businesses in Dillwyn Street on the corner of St Helens Road.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 27 Apr 2014
0.05 miles
9
Eli Jenkins, Swansea
This is the longer (Plymouth Street) side of the city centre pub at 24 Oxford Street.
The Reverend Eli Jenkins is a character in Swansea-born Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, a "play for voices" first broadcast on January 25 1954 on the BBC's Third Programme radio channel.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 11 Mar 2012
0.05 miles
10
Stone lions at the top of 21 Oxford Street, Swansea
Now a branch of Bonmarche, 21 Oxford Street was built in 1893 as the premises of John S.Brown, ironmonger. From 1929 to 1960 it was Macowards. Although a tower has been removed from the central section on the roof, the two lions remain, gazing out across the city.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 11 Mar 2012
0.05 miles