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Swansea Blitz: The failed attempts to rebuild a shattered town


BBC News
By Rhys Williams
media captionMany areas of the sophisticated town were devastated by raids in the Three Nights Blitz of 1941
Eighty years after the German Air Force destroyed the thriving town of Swansea, the legacy of disjointed attempts to rebuild its centre is still being felt.
The local authority had ambitious and forward-thinking plans to restore Swansea to its pre-war glory.
But its plans were blocked by a central government with a superior attitude, historian Dr Dinah Evans said.
The words of Llanelli MP Jim Griffiths in the Western Mail following the Blitz summed up the ambition of the authorities for Swansea to regain its former glory as a commercial centre. ....

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