A letter from George Grant Francis to Charles B Mansfield, Town Clerk regarding the Swansea Charters. Francis was returning the charters to the Town Clerk for safekeeping in the Charter Chest. The letter includes a brief overview of the missing charters, and the offer the translate the charters free of charge.

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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

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

Papers relating to the Swansea Charters, 1843-1871S/EA/12/1/hub

Envelope addressed Old papers relating to Swansea received from Mr John Lloyd, Barrister at Law. No contents.EA 12/1/1

Two small pieces of parchment with faded writing on. Possibly used as hanging tabs for seals.EA 12/1/2

Note stating the charters were given to Mr G G Francis with authority of J C Richardson, Mayor to have a copy made of them.EA 12/1/3

A leather pouch with the word Charters printed on it.EA 12/1/4

Memorandum by George Grant Francis on the Charter of Henry III, The writing and parchment of this charter is quite perfect, but the seal is entirely gone, the silk cord only remaining. Also Made a careful copy for publication in Vol. for Corporation, 1 April 1867.EA 12/1/5

Memorandum by George Grant Francis on the Charter of Edward II, The writing and parchment of this charter is quite perfect, and the seal exists as sketched below.EA 12/1/6

Memorandum by George Grant Francis on the Charter of Edward III, The writing of the Charter is quite perfect, the parchment is somewhat tainted and the corners of the folds have perished, the seal exists ad sketched below.EA 12/1/7

Memorandum of George Grant Francis on the Charter of William De Breos, The writing and parchment are very perfect to within 6 inches of the end, where it appears to have suffered from damp or written with different ink, and to have been repaired, every word is nevertheless quite legible; a small portion only of the seal remains, but quite sufficient to prove it the same De Breos attached to the Popes Letter , 1301, preserved in the Chapter House, a cast from which I have given to the Royal Institution of South Wales.EA 12/1/8

A letter from George Grant Francis to Charles B Mansfield, Town Clerk regarding the Swansea Charters. Francis was returning the charters to the Town Clerk for safekeeping in the Charter Chest. The letter includes a brief overview of the missing charters, and the offer the translate the charters free of charge.EA 12/1/9

A letter from George Grant Francis to Thomas Phillip, Mayor of Swansea regarding the translation and transcription of the Swansea Charters.EA 12/1/10

Letter from Messrs Johnson & Weatheralls, Temple, London to Richard A Essery regarding the Swansea Charters.EA 12/1/11

Letter from George Grant Francis to Richard Aubrey Essery regarding Swansea Charters, which he viewed at a Chambers on Kings Bench Walk, London. He describes the parcels containing the charters as higgledy, piggledy and the great seals and chipped and broken in pieces.EA 12/1/12

A note by George Grant Francis: Received on loan for copying the original Charter of James II to Swansea.EA 12/1/13

Miscellaneous papers including papers relating to the Commission of the Peace, 1718-1895S/EA/12/2/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