Swansea’s Bookshops & Booksellers

Just gathering a list of the Information Palaces of Swansea. Image is ©Cover to Cover in Mumbles.

Current

• Waterstones (Online Chain & Oxford Street)
• Cover to Cover (Online and Newton Road, Mumbles)
• Dylan’s Online and Mobile Bookstore
• Siop Ty Tawe (Christina Street)
• Christian Bookshop, Swansea Market (DBD FB SHG)
• N.B. Books Swansea Market
• The Works (Quadrant Centre)
• W H Smith (Quadrant Centre)
• Oxfam Bookshop (Castle Street)
• Books and Bobs (Online?)
• College Street Books (Ammanford)

Past

• Dylan’s bookstore (King Edward Road, Salubrious Passage – mid70’s to 2000, Ty Llen, King Edwards Road & see also current)
• Ralph the Books (Alexandra Road, Singleton Street?)
• Peters (Kingsway) closed ca 2000
• Borders (Fforestfach)
• Charlotte’s Web (Mumbles)
• Paperback Parade (High Street)
• unknown on St Helen’s Road (closed in the 90’s?)
• Swansea University Bookshop (Singleton Park Campus)
• Uplands Bookshop (Uplands, Gwydr Cres and later Uplands Crescent (now the Bookshop Cafe/Bar)) and a store on lower union street ca 1970’s on the right on the way down to the Quadrant (Bernard Lewis, FB SHG)
• A.R. Way, Craddock Street (Anthony Williams FB SHG)
• Full Marx Alexandra Road (Dewi Bowen FB SHG)
• Ty John Henry then CLC (Christian Literature Crusade) St Helen’s Road/Ty John Penry (Tim James FB SHG)
• Second hand bookshop in Swansea Market (Bernard Lewis FB SHG)
• Rowlands Music upstairs in original shop only (Mathew Walters FB SHG)

See:

• Archive Collections
  • Swansea University https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/a4524fac-1b44-3ff5-aa7b-2ec8c8a416ea

• Articles
  • Ralph the Books, Swansea on BookRide http://www.bookride.com/2010/06/lost-bookshops.html
  • Jeff Towns and more in Generosity of a Bookseller on Gwallter https://gwallter.com/books/generosity-of-a-bookseller.html
  • The Swansea Gang – with a mention of Ralph the Books and images – http://bernardmitchell.co.uk/the-swansea-gang/
  • Dylans Bookstore https://www.dylans.com/about/