Swansea ....

[Mr_Nice]

Hi Folks, I grew up in Swansea, and have never managed to stay away for long - still in the Uplands. If anybody wants a native to show them the ropes PM me. I'm usually found wandering between the Uplands Tav, Mozarts and Monkey in no particular order.

TP,

Been here for 2 weeks now and its not that bad a place, still getting my bearings, funny enough in the first week I was offered weed by a group of lads I am going back on Friday but I am around mid week if ya fancy meeting for a drink, checked out Monkey, nice place but it was quite when I got there 1am last night ......
Get back to me and give me the lowdown,

 

[marty21]

Hi Folks, I grew up in Swansea, and have never managed to stay away for long - still in the Uplands. If anybody wants a native to show them the ropes PM me. I'm usually found wandering between the Uplands Tav, Mozarts and Monkey in no particular order.

uplands tavern - did that use to be called "streets" in the 80s? it had a load of shop fronts as the pub decor - very popular palce when i lived there

 

[Trufflepig]

TP,

Been here for 2 weeks now and its not that bad a place, still getting my bearings, funny enough in the first week I was offered weed by a group of lads I am going back on Friday but I am around mid week if ya fancy meeting for a drink, checked out Monkey, nice place but it was quite when I got there 1am last night ......
Get back to me and give me the lowdown,

Glad to hear you're enjoying it, I'll be happy to meet up - I'm in San Francisco atm - but flying back to the "graveyard of ambition" today. Monkey is really a weekend spot - though these days its pretty crowded, better in the old days before they expanded into next door. Still it is one of the few spots to avoid the weekend warriors after closing time. Mozarts in the Uplands is the typical afterhours drinking den, full of all sorts, nicotine stained stripey walpaper and piano. The Tav is still Swansea's live most popular music pub - but everyone is sat outside, get there early on the weekend if you don't want to queue.

To LilMissHIssyFit - I was an Olchfa boy, though my Mum taught cookery at Bishop Gore for about 25 years.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

OMG Who's your mum? I used to be a regular in the uplands Tav many years ago.
Happy days

My brother went to Olchfa, we lived in the catchment but my olds sent me to BG.

 

[Tan_Y_Ddraig]

I have been to the uplands tav a few times. It's over the road from the spar and the rock club (up some stairs) and been there a few times too.

Shame about how packed it gets.. i even saw a massive queue to get in once!

 

[Col_Buendia]

Only discovered this place recently on the recommendation of a friend, but it seemed like a pretty decent art gallery and worth checking out on a slow Sunday afternoon:

Glynn Vivian Gallery

 

[Strumpet]

It's a beautiful building.....and only about 1 min. walk from me

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

Sometimes I miss swansea, most of the time I give it not a second thought.
Ive realised most people who grow up there fall into two camps, those who cant leave and those who have left and rarely go back

Then there are the third lot... the incomers who think its the bees bollocks (my parents fall into that category)

 

[Strumpet]

I left a few times n came back.
Hope to leave again sometime...change is as good as a rest eh!
Would come back when I'm old though

 

[editor]

What a fucking shitball

A property developer has been fined £300,000 for ordering a 176-year-old, 90ft giant redwood to be cut down for new homes.

Fiorenzo Sauro, 49, had 70 protected trees illegally felled to build 80 homes.

The redwood, in Penllergaer, Swansea, South Wales, was one of the first in Britain, planted in 1842.

Swansea council tree officer Alan Webster told a court the tree was “irreplaceable”.

He added: “This is ancient woodland dating back hundreds of years. It is important.’

Sauro and his firm, Enzo Homes Ltd, were yesterday found guilty of contravening a tree preservation order by magistrates in Swansea, south Wales.
The tree contractor who carried out the illegal felling was fined another £120,000 for the destruction in the ancient woodlands.

A court heard the towering 90ft tree was estimated to be worth more than £66,000 but, in reality, it was “irreplaceable”.

Sauro said the felling was an accident - but a judge ruled he “deliberately” ordered it to be chopped down to make way for 80 new homes.

Property tycoon who had 180-year-old giant redwood tree cut down is fined £300k

 

[jjuice]

Hope the 300k fine has wiped that effing smirk off his face. What a disgrace