Help us keep History alive!
Welcome to Llanelli Town's history section. Here you will find information on the history of Llanelli. History is there for all and we’d like to show it on the site!
If you’re a part of an organisation or an individual then please contribute and help us keep the Town’s unique history alive.
If you like to get involved then please email us.
Old Photos of Llanelli
Together we can build a wonderful archive of these old images. If you have any old, vintage, historical, edwardian or victorian pictures of Llanelli, from the earliest days of photography, right up to the 1980's, then please do scan them for display and preservation on this site. Preferably either 1024 pixels in width, or for portrait style photographs 1024 pixels in height.
Please do consider donating a copy of your old photographs, email them here
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History of Llanelli: Llanelli Dock Railway
The original Llanelly Dock Company was formed by a group of local businessmen who had interests in the Llangennech Coal Company. Previously the coal was transported by small barges or the newer tramroad to wharves on the mouth of the Loughor river at Yspitty Bank where it was stored before loading onto larger sea-going vessels.
It was with the prospects of developing the Llangennech coal seams in the Dafen district of Llanelli that a pit was planned by the Llangennech Company. A two mile (3 km) line would connect with the company's New Dock on Llanelli Flats, with a rope operated incline at the Dafen end to the new St. David's Pit. The Act authorising the construction of the line and dock received the royal assent on 19 June 1828. Problems with the pit delayed the opening of the railway until 1833.
The line managed to survive for well over a century and was known simply as the Dafen Branch when it closed in 1963. Some of the route can still be traced. A portion forms a footpath from Trostre Road towards the mainline behind the Llwynw
hilwg housing estate whilst a stretch of the M4 link road, which connects Halfway and Dafen is built over the trackbed.
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Llanelli is famous for
- The Stepney Spare Motor Wheel – designed by Walter Davies, production was started on it in 1904. The wheel consisted of a rim with an inflated tyre, which could be temporarily attached to a punctured car wheel. The name followed from the marker's location, Stepney Street in Llanelli. It was a huge success. These wheels were exported all over the world and a factory was established to produce 2000 wheels a month.
- The first Welsh medium primary school, Ysgol Dewi Sant was established in Llanelli in 1947 by the Local Authority.
- Llanelli has hosted the National Eisteddfod five times: in 1895, 1903, 1930, 1962, and 2000
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Llanelli Timeline
This is just a basic timeline of Llanelli's history. Please help us create an enhanced version. All submission can be emailed to
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1600s
1682 - Creation of Llanelly Church
1683 - Start of parish records
1700s
1761 - Oldest map of Llanelli created, where Machynys is shown to be an island.
1772 - John Wesley visits Llanelly.
1779 - Wesley visits again.
1780 - Independent chapel established at Capel Als.
1785 - Calvinist Methodist church established at Gelli On.
1791 - Blast furnace set up in Cwmddyche by Gevers and Ingman.
1795 - Alexander Raby begins to operate mining and melting of metal ores. Llanelly’s population recorded as less than 500.
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Madame Meryl is a proper astrologer who should be taken seriously. Madame Meryl is herself the seventh daughter of an ancient Druid astrologer who was herself the seventh daughter of a master Druid. Madame Meryl is an enthusiastic resident of Llanelli and expresses her spiritual powers by writing for us...
