Interviews by Clive Saddington for a feature on Mumbles Community Radio entitled ‘Mumbles Memories’. The interviews are with Judie Knight, Peter Williamson and Brian E. Davies, conducted at Oystermouth Library. Judie Knight is head librarian at Oystermouth Library, chats about what the library can offer; Brian E Davies is an author, who talks about his book on Swansea and Gower pubs and their history; Peter is an old school friend of the interviewer and a Mumbles boy who joined the Merchant Navy. He tells stories about his Mumbles life.

[00:00:01] Adverts: Adverts, etc until 2m 36s. [00:02:36] Personal Details: Judy Knight, Manager of Mumbles Library, 2011 interviewed by Clive Suddington, Radio Mumbles, "Mumbles Memories". [00:03:16] Judy Knight: Career (Borders Bookshop, Central Library). [00:04:07] Mumbles Library: 2nd busiest in Swansea. [00:04:43] Mumbles Library: Nature of "all inclusive service". [00:04:53] Mumbles Library: Children's services, encouragement. [00:05:42] Mumbles Library: Wednesday Rhyme Time sessions. [00:05:57] Child Reading: Growth, "Harry Potter effect". [00:06:52] IT: 7 public access computers. [00:07:00] IT: Tuesday IT courses, BBC 1st Click, waiting list. [00:10:46] Mumbles Library: Book Group started April '11, monthly, adult fiction. [00:11:20] Killay Library: Crime fiction reading group. [00:12:00] Adverts: Adverts, etc until 13m 53s. [00:14:00] Personal Details: Brian E Davies (BED), author of Wales: A Walk Through Time - Flatholm to Brecon, interviewed by Clive Suddington, Radio Mumbles, "Mumbles Memories". [00:15:00] Pubs: BED's work & methodology for book on Mumbles & Gower pubs. [00:15:39] Brewing: Mumbles pubs along "Mile" used to brew beer. [00:16:20] Brewing: Plunch Lane brewery, early 19th century, Nicholls family. [00:16:58] Brewing: Swansea Old Brewery (taken over by Trumans), United Brewery (bought by Hancock's). [00:17:29] Brewing: Beer recipes jealously guarded. [00:17:45] Brewing: Swansea Brewing Co, Bishopston. [00:17:57] Brewing: Most pubs (also many farms) used to brew own. [00:18:16] Pubs: Signs predated names. [00:18:23] Brewing: Hops grew wild; barley grown on Gower, malted locally. [00:19:08] Pubs: "Mumbles Mile" - White Rose to Pier. [00:19:38] Dylan Thomas: Antelope & Mermaid pubs. [00:20:10] Pubs: Antelope: surfers, literati in 1950s-60s. [00:20:35] Pubs: Old pubs - Beaufort, Kittle C15th; Plough & Harrow, Murton. [00:20:52] Pubs: Records indicate pubs on seafront early C18th: Victoria 1860s, Park Inn. [00:21:21] Pubs: Differing clientele of backstreet & seafront pubs. [00:21:47] Pubs: Nag's Head (later The Oystercatcher, now Costa Coffee) a livery stable; 1795, Methodist meeting place. [00:22:14] Temperance: Late C19th religious temperance movement. [00:22:33] Pubs: Decline of pubs, reasons. [00:24:03] Pubs: Social aspects - conversation, mixing (classes, not drinks). [00:24:38] Pubs: Traditional pubs: comeback. [00:25:03] Pubs: Gower pubs, clientele - tourists, agricultural. [00:26:17] Literature: Description of route for abovementioned A Walk Through Time. [00:27:14] Literature: Description of next two volumes - Brecon to Harlech, Harlech to Anglesey. [00:28:22] Tommy Cooper: Statue in Caerphilly; Pembroke guard duty. [00:32:32] Music: Spencer Davis, The Mumbles Train. [00:36:41] Personal Details: Peter Williamson (PW), of West Cross, interviewed by Clive Suddington (CS), Radio Mumbles, "Mumbles Memories". [00:37:26] Agriculture: Beynon's farm, now housing, Fairwood Road. [00:37:54] Education: Grange School, Mayals School - teacher Mr Taylor, sport. [00:39:16] Education: "The Academy" [Presumably Oystermouth Secondary School], post Mayals. [00:39:33] Leisure: Trolley building. [00:39:55] Housing: Boarspit Estate [built c1973-74]. [00:41:27] Leisure: Mumbles Carnival, marine inconvenience. [00:43:25] Leisure: Ostreme Festival, 1971, CS as King Edward I. [00:44:49] Bus Station: Old tunnel to sea. [00:45:41] Leisure: CS canoeing. [00:46:45] Education: Opinions of Oystermouth School - "too strict"; teachers, nicknames. [00:48:22] Australia: PW residence in Australia. [00:51:48] Retail: Woodleys Butchers, Mumbles; bike deliveries. [00:53:20] Climate: CS reading of The Big Chill, by Helen Webber; account of 1947 winter. [00:55:09] Music: Sea Shanty - Andrew Mackay, "Mumbles Lifeboat Horses" (also on T38 1-b, 41m 55s)