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This compilation of over 200 evocative images traces some of the changes that had taken place in this unique area over the last century. While for many the Gower Peninsula is indicative of beaches on hot summer days, walks in the woods or across the clifftops or surfing, the area is also home to many people who live and work in this most beautiful place.

The reader is taken on a tour of Gower as it was before the internal combustion engine came to dominate everyday life, when local craftsmen had their place in every village, and families and communities worked together for the benefit and enrichment of all.

Each image is accompanied by supporting text providing a wealth of local colour and historical detail. This comprehensive pictorial record will reawaken memories amongst older residents, whilst bringing to newcomers an opportunity to look at how things used to be.

This book covers the period of Gower's history from the Romans through to the period of industrialisation with coal mining, copper production, canal building and rapid expansion of the town of Swansea.

Gower's history, like much of the rest of Wales and its borders, tells at times of the animosity between Norman/English and Welsh, at times of great co-operation and trust and at others when loyalties divided on issues of religious, political or social belief that had nothing to do with 'tribal' backgrounds.

This book tells the story of 250 ships wrecked or stranded on the Gower peninsula. Records for the years before the local newspaper began publication in 1804 are scarce and just 22 incidents are recorded but from that year the record is almost complete.

The vessels lost, range from barques and ships outward bound with coal, or returning with ore for the copper works, to the humble smacks making coastal passages with coal, farm produce or groceries.

The sterling work of the lifeboat crews at Port Eynon and Mumbles is highlighted in many a rescue. The coastguard rocket apparatus companies at Rhossili and Oxwich also saved many crews and their efforts are not forgotten.

Complimented by photographs and contemporary advertisements announcing the sale of wrecked vessels and their cargoes.

Gerge Edmunds was born at Newport in the then County of Monmouth (now Gwent). He is a Sales Engineer with a deep and abiding interest in sub-aqua diving and all that this activity can mean. His interest extends to shipwrecks, legends, mystery and folklore, and in particular that relating to Gower, a small peninsula along the South Wales coastline.

This part of the Welsh coast has for centuries been the scene of much history. George Edmunds has painstakingly unearthed some of the more recent history and legends in his research on the shipwrecks around the Gower coastline. The result is this book, which has taken him six years to write and compile - truly a labour of love.

There is a full account of the Dollar Ship and many others, coming from the mouths of the Gower people themselves, with whom he has spent many a long hour. In addition to a most comprehensive listing of shipwrecks, with their attendant tales of horror, smuggling and brave lifeboat rescues, there is a guided tour of the coastline and reference to places existing today that bore witness to the happenings of long ago.

Penclawdd is situated on the North Gower Coast where estuary meets sea. This books contains recollections of its inhabitants. We read vivid portraits of life in the village: the cockle women, out in all weathers, enduring the hardships of the estuary; the miners underground; those that went away to war and those who lived in the Barracks - the row of houses with plenty of community spirit and no running water; the heart and soul of village life from those who attended church and chapel. We learn what excited, inspired and concerned them: gossip in village stores; the local rugby teams; the wonderful music. Or was it the cawl, the broth, that makes up all our lives, that consists of all these ingredients. And then the characters; Joe the Cockney proudly bore home a sheep's head to make cawl, Carl Gustav Pamp, the Swedish sailor who never regained his land legs.

Ann Morgan, nee Roberts, is Penclawdd born and bred. She has spent years listening to her friends. She is now writing their story. Please read it and then ask: is it any wonder why hiraeth is so powerful a feeling for the Welsh?

Settled in her village home, minding her own business, Olwen Harris looks forward to middle age with resignation if not eagerness. She has everything she could want except a family of her own; and she thinks she can live without that. Little does she know that the local community is about to be blown apart by terrible rumours about the activities of its vicar, Tim Sutcliff, Olwen's friend and personal idol.

Along with Elvis "The Music" Jones, the organist and choirmaster, Olwen stands by the Sutcliff family in their struggle to prove Tim's innocence. Life takes another unexpected turn when Tim's personable solicitor appears on the scene.

Spiced with snippets of observation about the daily life of Swansea and the scenery of the Gower peninsula, this book will excite, intrigue and finally melt your heart.

For twenty years, Deborah Fisher lived and worked in the Swansea area. She is the author of several novels and a biographical dictionary, Who's Who in Welsh History (Christopher Davies, 1997). She now lives in the Vale of Glamorgan with her husband and two children. t

Three Corners of Gower Peter R Douglas Jones