Happy Fiftieth Birthday Penlan Library !

It is 50 years since Penlan Library opened on May 7th 1971 it was built alongside Penlan South Community Centre on Heol Frank. It was opened by the Chair of the Swansea Public Library Committee T. R. Davies with the Mayor of Swansea. It has been serving people of Penlan faithfully ever since with brilliant staff, great books and exciting events.

Memories from Penlan Library staff.

Celebrate Penlan at 50! — Llyfrgelloedd Abertawe (squarespace.com)

Find out more about all the great things on offer at Penlan Library at our website where you can order books in advance for Click and Collect:

https://www.swansea.gov.uk/penlanlibrary

Did You Know?

The first Penlan library was only meant to be a temporary solution and was located in a converted ground floor flat on Heol Gwyrosydd. It opened on 20th September 1960.

Penlan Library had the benefit of a major £86,000 refit in 2012 with new shelving, carpets, redesigned seating areas, toilets and other new facilities. You can read about that at the flyer from the time.

Before the creation of the postwar Penlan council estate, this area was all farmland. It was part of Penlan Fawr farm and the farmhouse stood to the east of the library roughly where Idwal Place is now.

A railway tramway for carrying coal from Mynydd Newydd Colliery ran a little to the south of where library and community centre stands now. It joined the main railway line at Landore junction.