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36-651: The remains of the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks , originally developed by Vivian & Sons , consists of a core Grade II listed building and additional Grade II listed structures on a 12 acres (4.9 ha) site, on the banks of the River Tawe in Hafod , Swansea . The Hafod works was founded in 1810 by the Cornishman himself John Vivian. During the 19th century, this was the largest copper works in

72-507: A joint enterprise with Yorkshire Copper Works Ltd. The combined Hafod and Morfa Works site continued rolling copper until its closure in 1980. Morriston Morriston ( / ˈ m ɒr ɪ s t ə n / ; Welsh : Treforys [trɛ'vɔrɪs] ) is a community in the City and County of Swansea , Wales , and falls within the Morriston ward . It is the largest community in

108-469: A large ornate bandstand, swimming baths, lido, aviary, cricket pitch, changing rooms, shop, and even a 9-hole golf course. In recent years, many of those amenities have since closed. Over the years, the significance of Morriston Park has fallen, along with its condition. However, park still maintains the structure of an 18th-century landscape garden with views over the Lower Swansea valley. Morriston

144-569: A limited company in 1916. During 1924–1925, Vivians merged with two other Swansea firms – Williams, Foster and Company and Pascoe Grenfell and Sons (owned by Williams, Foster and Co. since 1897) – to form British Copper Manufacturers Ltd., which in 1928 was absorbed by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). The interests of the ICI Metals Division in the Lower Swansea Valley passed in 1957 to Yorkshire Imperial Metals ,

180-498: A new hotel, restaurant and new housing. In 2011, the local council named Swansea University as a development partner of the site, who are evaluating the possibility of developing academic facilities at the site. Public grants of £540,000 were awarded for the preservation and renewal of the site. Stage1 commenced in October 2013, clearing overgrown vegetation and undertaking essential preservation works. In 2019, plans to re-develop

216-603: A nickel mine and smelting works at Senjen in Norway. Between 1889 and 1894 the company owned and worked the Murray Mine near Sudbury, Ontario , during the period when the rich Canadian ores were displacing the nickel ores of Norway from the world market. By the mid-1880s, the quality of Cornish copper ore had decreased and it proved to be more economical to smelt ores at the mines in Chile and elsewhere. This situation led to

252-666: A taxi lane in Woodfield Street. Tabernacle Chapel is a major building in the centre of Morriston that visually dominates the area. It has been described as the " Non-Conformist Cathedral of Wales", while Anthony Jones, in his 1996 definitive book "Welsh Chapels" described the chapel as "The largest, grandest, and most expensive chapel built in Wales". The book features the Grade 1-listed building as its cover-photograph. Victorian industrialisation brought rapid population growth to

288-479: Is a rugby club founded in 1876 and based at Maes Collen. It is one of the founder clubs of the current Welsh Rugby Union and feeder club to the Ospreys region. The club caters for all age group rugby from age 6 to youth and senior sides and has produced many players who have achieved international honours, including Ross Moriarty . Morriston has several amateur association football clubs, most of which play in

324-532: Is at Woodfield Street, which consists of many small shops and pubs. Once a month the street is closed to traffic for Morriston Market, a monthly street market selling Welsh produce from hand-made items to fresh food. The nearby Swansea Enterprise Park comprises national chains. Morriston was originally located next to the Swansea Canal , which, along with the River Tawe, provided transport of goods in

360-525: Is in the Lower Swansea Valley , adjoining the River Tawe , on terrain sloping gently downward to the east and steeply upwards to the west. It is centred on Woodfield Street, a shopping area that runs in a north-south axis. The street features two of Morriston's most notable structures, the Church of St. John and Tabernacle Chapel . In its original design, St. John, locally known as "Church in

396-430: Is part of the Lower Swansea Valley. Over a period of about 150 years up until the 1920s, the valley was one of the most heavily industrialised areas of the developed world. Morriston was constructed as "Wales' earliest planned industrial village" and was laid out on a grid pattern designed by William Edwards and named after its founder, Sir John Morris . The grid pattern remains in evidence today. Morris originally named

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432-495: Is still in use, transporting freight traffic and also for the Fishguard to Cardiff/Cheltenham Spa passenger service. It runs through northern Morriston with a viaduct at Clydach Road. The centre of Morriston contains a large car park and has bus routes from Morriston Hospital into Swansea City Centre and on to Swansea University with services provided by First (South & West Wales) . The locality has two taxi offices with

468-624: Is the oldest sporting organisation in Morriston. The club plays its home matches at Tir Canol adjacent to the Rugby Club and is affiliated to the South Wales Cricket Association. A number of notable sportspeople have links with Morriston, either through residency or from the fact that Morriston Hospital once housed the maternity ward for Swansea and its surrounding areas. Welsh rugby international Shane Williams

504-589: The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), both major employers in the area. The Morriston hospital, the largest near Swansea, is located in Cwmrhydyceirw , about one mile north of Morriston town centre. The DVLA is in Clase , a suburb west of Morriston; and handles all British driver and vehicle registrations. The remainder of Morriston can be divided into three areas: The heart of the town retail community

540-431: The Lower Swansea Valley , close to the port of Swansea, as rural workers sought new employment opportunities in many tinplate and copper works established in the area. Welsh Nonconformity enjoyed great popularity; and dozen chapels were built in the Morriston area alone in the latter half of the 19th century, and Tabernacle, planned as the ultimate evocation of a Welsh chapel in terms of architecture, space, and facilities,

576-608: The Cheadle Brasswire Company of Staffordshire . By 1806 his second son, John Henry Vivian , was made manager at Penclawdd. In 1808–1810, land at Hafod was leased from the Duke of Beaufort and the Earl of Jersey , by the new firm of Vivian & Sons. The partners were John Vivian and his two elder sons, John Henry Vivian and Richard Hussey Vivian . Richard was the older but was fully occupied in his military career; it

612-525: The Hafod Works were the largest of their kind in the world, and their output represented one-quarter of the entire copper trade of the United Kingdom. During the last decade of John Henry's life, 1845–1855, his eldest son, Henry Hussey Vivian , managed the works and took full control of the business on his father's death. In 1853, Vivian jointly acquired, with Williams, Foster & Co. of Morfa,

648-693: The Lower Swansea Valley Project had started to transform the most derelict industrial landscape in Britain, resulting in the closure of the rolling mills in 1980. The former rolling mills were converted into the Landore Collection Centre, part of Swansea Museum . In 2010, the local authority discussed plans to have the site re-developed where the listed buildings would be preserved and new uses would be given to heritage buildings. The 2010 development plan included

684-602: The Middle of the Road", was the centrepiece of Morriston. It has since fallen into disrepair and is no longer used as a church. Tabernacle Chapel is a Grade I listed building designed by architect John Humphrey and built between 1870 and 1872. Tabernacle Chapel has also been called "the Cathedral of Welsh non-conformity". The Church of St. John and Tabernacle Chapel remain important town landmarks, along with Morriston Hospital and

720-674: The Morfa Bascule Bridge which served the site is planned to be returned to working condition. 51°38′15″N 3°56′07″W  /  51.6376°N 3.9353°W  / 51.6376; -3.9353 Vivian %26 Sons About 1800, the Cornishman John Vivian (1750–1826) , the first of the Vivian family to settle in Swansea, became managing partner in the copper works at Penclawdd and Loughor owned by

756-614: The Morfa side of the site into a distillery and visitors' centre for the Penderyn brand were approved, with construction due to begin at the end of 2019, and the centre to open in 2022. The project was part-funded by a £3.75m National Lottery Heritage Fund grant. Other parts of the copper works have also been worked on; the Musgrave Engine House and Vivian Engine House were made safe with the hope of further restoration and

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792-513: The Swansea Senior League: Morriston Town is a former Welsh Football League team based at The Dingle. Morriston Athletic and C.R.C. Olympic are also based in Morriston. Before they merged, games between Morriston Olympic and C.R.C. (Cwmrhydyceirw) Rangers were fiercely contested, with scores of supporters lining the pitch at Tir Canol whenever the two sides met. Morriston Cricket Club was formed in 1865 and

828-791: The Swansea Valley. The canal was superseded by rail and roads, and the major transportation links in Morriston now include the M4 motorway and theA4067 road. The nearest railway stations are at Llansamlet and Swansea High Street . Until the 1960s, Morriston had two other railway stations, Morriston East and Morriston West on the Morriston Branch of the Swansea District line and the Swansea Vale Railway , which have since been closed. The Swansea District line

864-517: The Swansea county. Morriston is sometimes referred to as a distinct town (e.g., the local football club is named Morriston Town A.F.C. ); however, it has yet to receive a town charter. Morriston lies three miles northeast of the Swansea city centre and is considered part of the urbanised region. It is the most populous of Swansea's electoral divisions and is situated close to other communities including Plasmarl , Treboeth , Llansamlet , Cwmrhydyceirw , Clase , Ynystawe and Ynysforgan . Morriston

900-804: The White Rock Copper Works at Foxhole, leased from the Earl of Jersey. In 1864, he began to obtain sulphuric acid from copper smoke, and in 1870-1871 he converted part of the White Rock works to treat poor silver-lead ores. White Rock ceased operations in 1928, the lease was surrendered and the works dismantled. By the mid-1870s, the Vivian & Sons undertaking at Hafod consisted of six works: Hafod Alkali Works, Hafod Copper Mills, Hafod Copper Works, Hafod Iron Foundry, Hafod Phosphate Works, and Hafod Silver Works. The firm also owned brick works and

936-564: The gradual cessation of copper smelting in the Swansea area. Other metalliferous industries took its place, as did a greater emphasis on engineering products. During the First World War, Vivians supplied the British Admiralty with brass tubes and condenser plates, more than doubling their output. The manufacture of shell driving bands was another notable contribution. Vivian & Sons traded from 1810 until 1924, becoming

972-672: The local rugby club, and Morriston Ladies Choir, formed in 1941 by Miss Lillian Abbot and members of the Local First Aid Defence Group. The Wales Book of the Year -winning novelist Stevie Davies was born in Salisbury , England , but her family moved to Morriston when she was a week old. Although her RAF family left Morriston two years later, Davies would return there to stay with her grandmother every summer and still consider it her hometown. Morriston R.F.C.

1008-496: The old Forest Spelter Works at Morriston ; were colliery proprietors at Mynydd Newydd, Pentrefellen and Pentre; and had their own shipping offices at 6 Cambrian Place, Swansea. In addition, H. H. Vivian personally owned the Hafod Isha Nickel and Cobalt Works. In 1883 he formed the associated company of H. H. Vivian & Co. Ltd. to take over that works, along with German silver and brass rolling mills at Birmingham and

1044-469: The town "Morris Town", but this was shortened into the single word "Morriston" with the Welsh language translation being Treforys . Morriston was initially constructed for the workers of the tinplate and copper industries that built up along the banks of the River Tawe in the 18th century. The Swansea Canal also ran through the area, transporting coal, limestone, and other products along the valley, but it

1080-410: The western slopes of the Lower Swansea valley. The mansion had a garden of extensive open grassland giving way to a wooded wilderness and a panoramic vista. In 1911, Swansea Corporation purchased 47 acres of Clasemont, which became Morriston Park in 1912. For several years the park received investment and new facilities, hosting many activities, carnivals, and musical performances. It once incorporated

1116-592: The world's first accommodation built specifically for workers by their employer. Little of the structure remains today, although its ruins are visible on high ground above the nearby Landore district. Morriston is home to a number of choirs. The internationally-renowned Morriston Orpheus Choir was formed in 1935 and performs around 25 engagements annually both in the UK and overseas and undertakes performances on radio, television, and at national events. Other choirs include Morriston RFC Male Choir, formed in 1979 by members of

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1152-594: The world, employing over 1,000 people. The rival Morfa works was established in 1835 by Williams, Foster & Co., and the two adjacent sites combined in 1924 under Yorkshire Imperial Metals. Swansea was core to the global copper industry, and by 1823 10,000 of Swansea's 15,000 residents were supported by the copper industry. By 1883 there were 124 works including 12 copper works in the Lower Swansea Valley. But as raw geological resources had waned in South Wales, it became more economic to produce copper elsewhere. In 1971

1188-474: Was John Henry who became managing partner. It was upon this site that the Hafod Smelting Works and Mills were established. Wood in his Rivers of Wales (1813) refers to the works "...lately built by Messrs. Vivian & Co., in the construction of which a laudable attention has been paid to the comfort and convenience of the workmen by a different arrangement of the furnaces". By the 1840s,

1224-610: Was born in Morriston, for example, but grew up in Glanamman in the Amman Valley . Other Welsh international rugby players with stronger links to Morriston include William Richard Arnold , Tony Clement , Richard Moriarty , Paul Moriarty and Ross Moriarty. Footballer James Thomas , who played in the English Football League for Blackburn Rovers , West Bromwich Albion and Swansea City (amongst others),

1260-441: Was completed in 1872 at the cost of £18,000. The design was evolved by three prominent figures in the area: the minister, Emlyn Jones; the architect, John Humphrey; and the contractor, Daniel Edwards. The Cambrian national newspaper described it as "the one great redeeming feature in that manufacturing district, an oasis in a desert". Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet of Clasemont , built a mansion in 1775 called Clasemont, at Pengwern on

1296-622: Was drained from Clydach to Swansea in the 1970s. Some small remains, including a footbridge, are still present in Morriston. Tin-plating had almost vanished from the area by the end of the Second World War , with production in South West Wales concentrated at new works in Felindre and Port Talbot . Sir John Morris was also responsible for the construction between 1768 and 1774 of Morris Castle , considered to have been

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