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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

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

Note relating to a Survey and Valuation of lands. No other information.EA 12/2/1

Counterpart Lease for 21 years for 20s annual rent, between (i) the Burgesses of the Borough of Swansea to (ii) Richard Powell of Swansea, shipwright: of all that bank or timber yard situate on The Strand, Swansea now in the possession of Richard Powell; bounded on the south by the coal yard of Robert Morris, gent.; the river on the east; the bank in the possession of Gabriel Powell, gent. being in a line from the door of the house of Robert Thomas, gent. to the river on the north; and The Strand on the west.EA 12/2/2

Noticed served on the following people: John Davies, Mary Bath, Jane A Jones, John Lloyd and Sir John Morris to quit premises in the town and franchise of Swansea (further details not given). Endorsed with place and date of notice by William Bouchier.EA 12/2/3/1-6

Letter from W M James to unknown.EA 12/2/4

Note to T Drydon regarding the cost of printing the Aberavon list of voters.EA 12/2/5

Note from George Grant Francis on receipt of Lease No 221, Burgesses of Swansea to Gabriel Powell, dated 1795 from the Town Clerk of Swansea.EA 12/2/6

Petition to Mr W J Rees, esq., Mayor of Swansea from the traders and inhabitants of the Borough of Swansea requesting a Towns Meeting to discuss Swansea on the main line and a joint central station. Includes names, addresses and occupations of those that signed the petition.EA 12/2/7

Receipt for £1 from the Town Clerk to the Crown Office, fee payable to the Exchequer for the insertion of the names of Justices in the Commission of the Peace for Swansea.EA 12/2/8

Printed letter from the Crown Ofiice to J Thomas esq., Swansea regarding the Swansea Commission of the Peace.EA 12/2/9

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