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Swansea Corporation, later Swansea County Borough Council, later Swansea City Council, recordsBA, BE, EA, HE, LE, PL, TC and TR

Borough Architect's DepartmentS/BA/hub

Borough Engineer's DepartmentS/BE/hub

Borough Estate Agent's DepartmentS/EA/hub

Deeds of title of Swansea Corporation property. These documents, which formerly must have been in the possession of the Town Clerk, had been kept for many years in the Borough Estate Agents department prior to accession in December 1976. Although no prior list of the class exists, the documents had been enumerated and ordered on several occasions, the last and only known occasion being 11 April 1952. The class has been broken up at some time. The sub-numbers used in this list follow this numbering system. The deeds in this series were catalogued and described by W. C. Rogers in his Swansea and Glamorgan Calendar, edited by Bernard Morris and published by the West Glamorgan Archive Service 2005 (searchroom library, LOC/SWA 78)S/EA/1/hub

Building lease applicationsS/EA/2/hub

Estate maps and registers of property belonging to Swansea CorporationS/EA/3/hub

Surveys relating to SwanseaS/EA/4/hub

Manorial recordsS/EA/5/hub

Deeds relating to Swansea School Board properties and other deedsS/EA/6/hub

Title deeds and leases relating mainly to properties at Brynmelyn and Greenhill, Swansea, 1630-1750. These deeds were found in two bundles, one containing deeds labelled A, E. K and L, and the other containing the rest. Both included notes by W. C. Rogers, former Estate Agent of Swansea made in 1942. He used them in his Swansea and Glamorgan Calendar (edited by Bernard Morris, and published by West Glamorgan Archive Service under the title Historic Swansea) where he refers to them as the Brynmelyn Deeds.S/EA/7/hub

Various deeds and leases of premises in Swansea, Oystermouth and Waunarlwydd, 1763-1944. There is no discernible original order to this series, so they have been arranged in date order.S/EA/8/hub

Pre-registration title deeds of properties in SwanseaS/EA/9/hub

Papers relating to the North Dock Abandonment Act 1928, 1913-1971. Swanseas North Dock was built in the 180s out of a bend in the River Tawe near to the town. The course of the river was straightened by the creation of the New Cut, and its former course turned into the North Dock, which was opened in 1852. By the 1920s, following the opening of larger docks to the east of the River Tawe, the North Dock was largely redundant and the Great Western Railway Company, its owners, proposed to close it. This resulted in the passage of the Great Western Railway (North Dock Abandonment) Act, 1928. The dock closed to shipping in 1930 and the upper part was filled in, leaving the North Dock Basin open until 1969, when it was filled in. New roads were built and the site eventually redeveloped for retail.S/EA/10/hub

Legal papers relating to the passage of the Act and subsequent actions, 1925-1953S/EA/10/1/hub

Correspondence files with firms and landowners affected by the North Dock Abandonment, 1925-1971S/EA/10/2/hub

File entitled Closing of North Dock. Bill and agreement. Containing draft proposals for discussion.EA 10/2/1

File entitled Closing of North Dock. Petitions and objectionsEA 10/2/2

File of regarding Parry and Rocke Ltd. Includes elevations of the premises and copy of the companys petition against the BillEA 10/2/3

File of correspondence regarding Woolworths premises, High Street [situated on the corner of High Street and Welcome Lane]EA 10/2/4

File of correspondence regarding the Swansea Oil and Grease Co.EA 10/2/5

File of correspondence regarding the Atlantic Fuel Co.EA 10/2/6

File of correspondence regarding Richard Thomas & CompanyEA 10/2/7

File of correspondence regarding the Anglo-French Nickel CompanyEA 10/2/8

File of correspondence regarding the Swansea Improvements and Tramways CompanyEA 10/2/9

File entitled Closing of North Dock. Reports.EA 10/2/10

File of correspondence entitled Petition of Corporation against alterationsEA 10/2/11

File entitled Bill and agreement. G. W. Rly. [Great Western Railway] Amendments and Clauses, containing correspondence regarding the agreement between Swansea County Borough Council and the GWR., and a draft of the agreement.EA 10/2/12

File entitled Closing of North Dock. Correspondence, miscellaneous.EA 10/2/13

File entitled Closing of North Dock. Correspondence with GWR Officials.EA 10/2/14

File entitled Closing of North Dock. Correspondence with officialsEA 10/2/15

File entitled Closing of North Dock. Miscellaneous statements, estimates, particulars, etc.EA 10/2/16

File of correspondence entitled G. W. Rly. Co. (Ssea North Dock Abandonment) Act 1928 supplemental agreement. Dunns Premises High Street and Welcome Lane.EA 10/2/17

File entitled Parliamentary estimatesEA 10/2/18

File entitled G.W.Ry Co (Swansea North Dock Abandonment) Act, 1928, etc. containing notes on, and correspondence regarding, the agreements with the Great Western RailwayEA 10/2/19

File entitled Great Western Railway Swansea (North Dock Abandonment) Act 1928. Supplemental agreement regarding the supplemental agreement with the Great Western Railway. Relates to easements, the acquisition of Padleys Yard and exchange of land.EA 10/2/20

File entitled Weavers Agreement, relating to part of the site of Weavers Flour MillEA 10/2/21

File entitled Town and Country Planning Act 1947. Development plan. Proposals of railway executive for North Dock, SwanseaEA 10/2/22

Untitled wallet file containing the following: volume of valuations of premises affected by the North Dock abandonment; envelope of photographs of GWR wall at Architects Yard, Strand; draft financial statement of nett cost to Swansea Corporation in relation to works in connection with the decommissioning of the dock; reply to the chairman and members of the Parliamentary Committee regarding the implication of the proposal by the GWR for the closure and filling-in of the North Dock, 27 May 1925; notes and plans relating to the North Dock abandonment.EA 10/2/23

Photographs and maps, 1913-1937S/EA/10/3/hub

Walters Ffynone Estate, 1750-1939S/EA/11/hub

Papers relating to the acquisition and provenance of Swanseas charters and other papers, 1718-1895S/EA/12/hub

Records relating to the collection of rentsS/EA/30-32/hub

Correspondence files, 1930s-1970sS/EA/51/hub

Records relating to Requisitioned propertiesS/EA/60/hub

Records relating to the Redevelopment of SwanseaS/EA/61/hub

Papers from the office of Bernard Morris, former Swansea City Estate Agent, c. 1880-1980. Bernard H. Morris (1932-2012) worked in the Estates Department of Swansea City Council, becoming City Estate Agent later in his career. He was a keen and knowledgeable local historian and long-term member of the Gower Society. These records consist of a miscellany of reports and other items collected by him in the course of his work and transferred to Swansea City Archives in 1989.S/EA/150/hub

Sales catalogues collected by the Estates Department, relating mainly to properties in SwanseaS/EA/180/hub

Market Managers Office RecordsS/EA/200-215/hub

Swansea City Council, Estates Department photographs, slides and negativesS/EA/ES1/hub

Medical Officer of Health's DepartmentS/HE/hub

Swansea City Council: Leisure Services DepartmentS/LE/hub

Swansea City Council: Planning DepartmentS/PL/hub

Town Clerk's DepartmentS/TC/hub

Treasurer's DepartmentS/TR/hub

File entitled Closing of North Dock. Correspondence with officials

File entitled Closing of North Dock. Correspondence with officials