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History of Mumbles and Gower


Anew web site called "A History of Mumbles" is being developed by John and Carol Powell, well known local historian of Mumbles.

used this link to see the site

A History of Mumbles


From the story of Mumbles by Gerald Gabb,1986

Up Newton Road

Note- The Midland Bank is now known as HSBC bank


Famous People

Alfred Sisley - Impressionist

Storr's Rock

The Sisley in England and Wales exhibition

which has been on display in the National Gallery in

London is now on at the National Museum of Wales

in Cardiff until 14th June 2009.

This is a great exhibition with some superb

examples of Sisley’s work. Sisley painted at

Penarth and Rotherslade when he stayed at the

Osborne Hotel during his honeymoon in 1897.

For exhibition details follow the link below.

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/whatson/?event_id=3365

There are four of his five paintings of Rotherslade

in this exhibition, plus views of Penarth and Cardiff

roads and others from an earlier visit to England.

His fifth view of Rotherslade was painted from the

cliff path to the east of Rotherslade and looks

across Langland Bay to the farmland behind, now

Langland Bay Golf Club. This painting is on display

in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen.

Rothertor and Rothers Skerr, (known locally as the

Donkey Rock and Crab Island) are both named on

the 1st issue of the Ordinance Survey maps for

Oystermouth Parish published in 1870, nearly thirty

years before Sisley painted there. However, one of

the reasons these paintings are not so easy to

identify is because in his three views of the rock he

called it Storr's Rock and in all five of his paintings,

Rotherslade Bay is called Lady’s Cove.

It is thought that Storris simply Sisley’s mistake for

RotherTOR and Ladies Cove could have been the

name given to Rotherslade Bay by Osborne Hotel

staff. In those days of segregated bathing,

Rotherslade Bay would perhaps have been

reserved for the ladies while the men presumably

would have been advised to swim in Langland.

 

 

If you have any other interesting tales of bygone days, please send them to the editor for publication.


 

 

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