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The 1937 Library Reading Room. With the growth of the University College of Swansea in the 1920s the old library based in Singleton Abbey was no longer suitable. [1] A competition was held in 1934 and was won by the London architect Verner O. Rees who designed other university libraries including the now-demolished University of Birmingham Library which was constructed in 1959. [2]
1937 Library (Swansea University) F. Fulton House, Swansea; W. Wallace Building, Swansea This page was last edited on 19 March 2016, at 23:19 (UTC). Text is available ...
The old Swansea Central Library in Swansea, Wales, was a public lending and reference library in Alexandra Road, in the city centre. The former library, a late 19th-century Grade II listed building , is now occupied by Swansea Metropolitan University's Welsh School of Architectural Glass .
Swansea University (Welsh: Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, [ 4 ] as the fourth college of the University of Wales .
Singleton Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Singleton) is a large, mainly 19th-century mansion in Swansea, Wales. Today, the buildings are used to house administration offices for Swansea University . They can be found at the eastern end of the Swansea University Singleton Park campus.
The building was in use by 1 December 1961 when the founder Professor of Chemistry, Prof J. E. Coates was presented with a portrait 'as a mark of the respect and esteem in which his contribution to chemistry in Swansea' by colleagues and students which he donated to Swansea University for hanging in the corridor of the new building. [2]
He is a graduate of the University of Bristol and was appointed to a research post, and then promoted to higher academic positions, at Swansea in 1964. [ 2 ] Griffiths was a member, and later chair, of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales , sat on the Advisory Council on Public Records, and on the Council of the ...
Singleton Park, Swansea: Country: Wales: Coordinates ... The Wallace Building is a Grade-II Swansea University building, in Singleton Park, Swansea. [1] History.