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      • Arlene’s Slush Bar
      • Davies of Mumbles
      • Good News Swansea
      • Jan Evans Bakery
      • Norfolk Bakery
      • T.C Jones Confectionery
    • Butchery
      • Billy Upton
      • Hugh Phillips Gower Butchers
      • Simpsons
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      • CAPNOCO
      • Card Collection
      • Christian Bookshop
      • Cim’s Creations
      • N.B Books
      • Something Different
      • The Welsh Stall
      • Warringtons
    • Clothing, Footwear and Leather Goods
      • The Baby Room
      • Bibs & Bobs
      • Kandy’s Tailoring
      • Seema Fashions
      • Sew It Seams
      • Stitch For Sure
      • Sian’s Fashions (Ladieswear)
      • Sian’s Fashions (Menswear)
    • Delicatessen & Health Foods
      • Abrahams and Family
      • A.J.Meats
      • Brontosaurus
      • Country Quality Meats
      • DE Richards and Sons
      • Deli Cymreig
      • Healthworld
      • Mair Harries Welsh Produce
      • The Thai Shop
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      • Console Action
      • Mike-O-Soft
      • Market Spares
      • The Phone Doctor
      • Quartztime
      • Tom Whitehouse Ltd
    • Fish & Seafood
      • Coakley-Greene
      • The Market Plaice
      • Tuckers Fish
      • Cockle Rotunda: C.Watts
      • Cockle Rotunda: M.Swistun
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      • The Choice is Yours
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      • Swansea Jewellery Repairs
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      • Gold Reserves
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      • The Kazbah
      • Lethbridge Handbags
      • Pandora’s Box
      • The Powder Room
      • Rani’s Brow & Eyelash Lounge
      • Rani’s File & Style Boutique
      • Ryan’s Beauty
    • Places to Eat
      • Cafe Janet
      • Country Kitchen
      • Donut Den
      • El Mercado
      • The Falafel Stall
      • Greedy Fellas
      • Iokasti’s Kitchen
      • Little Tokyo
      • The Lunchbox
      • The Market Pantry
      • Nonna’s Deliciously Different
      • Storm in a Teacup
      • Thai Taste
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      • The Engraving Centre
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    • The Victorian Market (1890-1941)
    • The Wartime Market (1941-1961)
    • The Modern Market (1961 – Present Day)
    • The Cockle Industry
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The Cockle Industry

This women-led industry has been in the Market for generations, and is still going strong today!

Aided by donkeys, the “cockle women” would harvest fresh cockles daily from the estuary in Penclawdd and until the opening of a railway line in 1867, would walk to Swansea Market everyday to sell their fresh produce! That’s around 8 miles each way!

Even when the Market was destroyed by the Blitz, the cockle women persevered!

Traditionally, the cockle women would wear full Welsh costume, a tradition which re-emerges every St David’s Day in modern Swansea Market.

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