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Pentrechwyth
Pentrechwyth ( en, village on the left) is a village in Swansea, Wales falling within the Bon-y-maen ward. The village approximates to the built up area around Jersey Road just uphill from the junction with the A4217 road and most recently the Copper Quarter development on the old Addis site. The cartoonist Glan Williams was born here. Villages in Swansea {{Swansea-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bon-y-maen
Bon-y-maen, sometimes spelt ''Bonymaen'', ( cy, Bôn-y-maen) is a community in Swansea, Wales located about north east of Swansea city centre. It falls within the coterminous Bonymaen ward for elections to Swansea Council. Bôn-y-maen is Welsh for 'Base of the stone' and there are legends that the same stone ends in Penmaen ( en, Stone End) on the Gower Peninsula. Overlooking Bon-y-maen on top of Kilvey Hill is the main TV transmitter In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna. The transmitter itself generates a radio frequency alternating current, which is applied to the ... for Swansea. The local rugby team is Bonymaen RFC. In 2017 over 200 new homes were planned for the ex-Morris Brothers bus works in Pentrechwyth (part of Bonymaen).Nino Williams (29 August 2017"200 new homes could be built in part of Swansea" ''Wales Online''. Retrieved 10 February 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glan Williams
Glan Williams (born Glanffrwd Owen Williams, 1 September 1911 – 9 June 1986) was a British caricaturist. Glan Williams was born in Pentrechwyth, Swansea, Wales, the first of five children of Thomas Howell Williams and Mary Ann Owens. After winning a scholarship at age 14, he attended the Swansea School of Arts and Crafts (now part of Swansea Metropolitan University) from 1925 to 1931 where he became friends with other Swansea artists Mervyn Levy and Alfred Janes. He was appointed City Cartoonist to the London Express Newspapers in 1930 and continued working in the 1930s as a political cartoonist for the '' Sunday'' and '' Daily Express'' while also contributing illustrations to stories in the '' Daily Herald''. In 1940, he joined the Welsh Regiment but was posted to the camouflage unit in Norwich with Roland Penrose and Oliver Messel. Following the war, he worked as a commercial artist for the George Hopkinson Organisation and Fanfare Displays while continuing to work as a fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swansea
Swansea (; cy, Abertawe ) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in .... It forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea ( cy, links=no, Dinas a Sir Abertawe). The city is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, twenty-fifth largest in the United Kingdom. Located along Swansea Bay in southwest Wales, with the principal area covering the Gower Peninsula, it is part of the Swansea Bay (region), Swansea Bay region and part of the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Glamorgan; also the ancient Welsh commote of Gŵyr. The principal area is the second most List of Welsh principal areas by population, populous local authority area in Wales with an estimate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A4217 Road
List of A roads in zone 4 in Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It i ... starting north of the A4 and south/west of the A5 (roads beginning with 4). __TOC__ Single- and double-digit roads Triple-digit roads Only roads that have individual articles have been linked in the "Road" column below. Four-digit roads (40xx) Four-digit roads (41xx) Four-digit roads (42xx and higher) References {{UK road lists 4 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
