Swansea Blitz
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The Swansea Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of Swansea by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War, the most intensive episode of which was the Three Nights' Blitz from 19 to 21 Febr
Oxford Street, Swansea town centre, in 1941 after the Three Nights' Blitz (Photo: Imperial War Museums)
A 3.7-inch Heavy Anti-Aircraft gun surmounts the monument erected to the air defence of Swansea, particularly the night of 21 February 1941.
Mothers and children in a working-class area of Swansea have tea and sandwiches from a mobile canteen after a night's bombing (Photo: Imperial War Museums)
The Kardomah Gang
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The Kardomah Gang, Kardomah Boys, or Kardomah Group was a group of bohemian friends – artists, musicians, poets and writers – who, in the 1930s, frequented the Kardomah Café in Castle Street, Swansea,
Swansea Blitz
…Blitz to declare to his friend Bert Trick “our Swansea has died”. He would later recount his experiences in his BBC 1947 broadcast Return Journey: “The Kardomah Café was raised to the snow, the voices of the coffee drinkers - poets, painters, and musicians in their beginnings - all lost". And having explored the…
Kardomah Cafe, Swansea