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Monday - Saturday: 8:30 — 16:00, Sunday: Closed
  • Home
  • COVID-19 Update
    • Deliveries
  • Improvements Plan
  • Market Stalls
    • Bakery & Confectionery
      • Arlene’s Sweetie Jar
      • 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
    • Cards, Gifts & Books
      • Capnoco
      • Card Collection
      • Christian Bookshop
      • Cim’s Creations
      • N.B Books
      • Something Different
      • Swansea Bay Records
      • The Welsh Stall
      • Warringtons
    • Clothing, Footwear and Leather Goods
      • The Baby Room
      • Kandy’s Tailoring
      • Rock-A-Bye
      • Seema Fashions
      • Sew It Seams
      • Sew4Sure
      • Sian’s Fashions (Ladieswear)
      • Sian’s Fashions (Menswear)
      • Socks Up
    • 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
      • City Flowers
      • Get Fresh
      • Plant More Plants
      • Neil Evans
      • Nick Jones
    • Home & Fabrics
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      • Duttons Yarns
      • High Street Antiques
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      • Alison Rose
      • Don’s Jewellery Service
      • Forever Gold
      • Gold Reserve
      • Hairlines
      • Jemz
      • The Kazbah
      • Lethbridge Handbags
      • Pandora’s Box
      • The Powder Room
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      • Rani’s File & Style Boutique
      • Ryan’s Beauty
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      • Cafe Janet
      • Country Kitchen
      • Donut Den
      • El Mercado
      • The Falafel Stall
      • Greedy Fellas
      • Iokasti’s Kitchen
      • Little Tokyo
      • The Lunchbox
      • The Market Pantry
      • Storm in a Teacup
      • Thai Taste
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      • Dragon Coach Tours
      • The Engraving Centre
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      • Timpson
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    • The Victorian Market (1890-1941)
    • The Wartime Market (1941-1961)
    • The Modern Market (1961 – Present Day)
    • The Cockle Industry
  • What’s On
    • Celebrating 50 years of Swansea as a city
      • Adrian Coakley-Greene
      • Catherine Butler
      • Charlotte Berry
    • Music at the Market
    • Vegan Mini-Markets
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The Wartime Market (1941-1961)

Unfortunately, the second instalment of the Oxford Street market wasn’t to last as Swansea was bombed heavily during the Luftwaffe raids of WWII; its lavish glass roof shattered and much of the interior completely destroyed.

Coakley-Greene fishmongers is still going today!

It was crucial that the market continue, as it was a vital food supplier for the city. So it was temporarily housed in Singleton Street above the bus garage throughout the war allowing it to keep serving the people of Swansea.

Luckily, the external walls remained standing, so in 1941 after clearing the rubble and debris, traders moved back into the shell of the market, enduring the climate. It remained open-air throughout the 1940’s and 1950’s.

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