The Swansea Museum is one of many museums in this area!
It has loads to see.
Outside the Swansea Museum on Oystermouth Road you can find a beam from one of the 6 Cornish pumping engines, made by Harvey & Co. in 1879, which were used at the Severn Tunnel Pumping Station.
Next to it is a more complete steam engine, which was used to drive a lead rolling mill in the Lower Swansea Valley, this was made by John Wilson & Son, Johnston, Scotland in 1901.
Check out their website for visitor information – HERE!
The Museum has many boats in its collections and two of these are kept floating in Swansea Marina – the lightship Helwick and a tugboat called Canning.
Tug boat ‘Canning’ was built in 1954. She is an oil-burning steam tug who worked from Swansea Docks from 1966.
She retired to the Museum in 1975. There is no public access to Canning but she can be seen clearly from the pontoon and dockside.
The Tramshed on Dylan Thomas Square, in the Marina, is also run by Swansea Museum and is usually open on bank holidays and special events (please ring the museum to check opening days and times on 01792 653763).
The Swansea Museum is one of many museums in this area!
It has loads to see.
Outside the Swansea Museum on Oystermouth Road you can find a beam from one of the 6 Cornish pumping engines, made by Harvey & Co. in 1879, which were used at the Severn Tunnel Pumping Station.
Next to it is a more complete steam engine, which was used to drive a lead rolling mill in the Lower Swansea Valley, this was made by John Wilson & Son, Johnston, Scotland in 1901.
Check out their website for visitor information – HERE!
The Museum has many boats in its collections and two of these are kept floating in Swansea Marina – the lightship Helwick and a tugboat called Canning.
Tug boat ‘Canning’ was built in 1954. She is an oil-burning steam tug who worked from Swansea Docks from 1966.
She retired to the Museum in 1975. There is no public access to Canning but she can be seen clearly from the pontoon and dockside.
The Tramshed on Dylan Thomas Square, in the Marina, is also run by Swansea Museum and is usually open on bank holidays and special events (please ring the museum to check opening days and times on 01792 653763).
