Mobile tyres fitting service in Swansea Wales
We offer the lowest priced tyres and a mobile tyres
fitting service for Swansea Wales. See our tyres price
check comparison. No call out charge. All leading brands
of car tyres, van tyres, 4X4 tyres & run-flat tyres. We
fit tyres at your place of work or home driveway. Tyres
fitting and balancing is fully guaranteed. Also car
batteries. Our low prices for tyres and car batteries
are fully inclusive, no hidden extras. We don't have
expensive tyres depots so our prices are always low.
We offer a complete range of tyres backed up by our
efficient and cost effective mobile tyres fitting
service for Swansea Wales. So, rather than having to
travel to a traditional tyre depot to have tyres fitted,
you remain at home or at work and we come to you. This
is much more convenient… and, it also greatly reduces
our operating costs so we are able to slash our selling
prices of tyres by up to 40%.
Unlike many companies selling tyres on-line we have a
head office call centre. This provides advice and
technical information on all aspects of tyres. Also, for
those who prefer to place their order for tyres by
telephone, rather than by buying tyres on-line, we have
a freephone facility (0800 028 9000).
We are proud of our Customer service record, and we
fully guarantee our work. Please feel free to call our
freephone telephone number if you would like personal
help and service, we are always ready and willing to
explain the choices and make sure you are happy with our
sales and service for car tyres and car batteries.
More about Swansea Wales
Swansea is a city and county in South Wales, situated
on the coast immediately to the east of the Gower
Peninsula. The name Swansea is believed to come from
"Sweyn's Ey" ("ey" being a Germanic word for "island")
and to have originated in the period when the Vikings
plundered the south Wales coast.
Swansea is Wales's second city, and it grew to its
present importance during the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, becoming a centre of heavy industry. However,
it did not enjoy the same degree of immigration as
Cardiff and the eastern valleys.
Archaeology on the Gower Peninsula includes many remains
from prehistoric times, passing through Stone Age,
Bronze Age, and Iron Age. Prehistoric finds in the
Swansea city area proper are rare. The Romans visited
the area, as did the Vikings, whose name for the
settlement on the river is used in English today.
Following the Norman Conquest, a marcher lordship was
created: named Gower, it included land around Swansea
Bay as far as the Tawe, and the manor of Kilvey beyond
the Tawe as well as the peninsula itself. Swansea was
designated its chief town, and subsequently received one
of the earlier borough charters in Wales.
Swansea became an important port: some coal and vast
amounts of limestone (for fertiliser) were being shipped
out from the town by 1550. As the Industrial Revolution
reached Wales, the combination of port, local coal, and
trading links with the West Country, Cornwall and Devon,
meant that Swansea was the logical place to site copper
smelting works. Smelters were operating by 1720 and
proliferated.
Following this, more coal mines (everywhere from
north-east Gower to Clyne to Llangyfelach) were opened
and smelters (mostly along the Tawe valley) were opened
and flourished. Over the next century and a half, works
were established to process arsenic, zinc and tin and to
create tinplate and pottery. The city expanded rapidly
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and was
termed "Copperopolis". By the mid-nineteenth century
Swansea docks was the largest exporter of coal in the
world.
Through the twentieth century, these industries
eventually declined, leaving the Lower Swansea Valley
filled with derelict works and mounds of waste products
from them. The Lower Swansea Valley Scheme (which still
continues) reclaimed much of the land: the present
Enterprise Zone exists almost entirely a result of this
scheme, and of the many original docks, only those
outside the city continue to work as docks: North Dock
is now Parc Tawe and South Dock became the Marina.
Little city centre evidence beyond road layout remains
from medieval Swansea; its industrial importance made it
the target of heavy bombing in World War II, and the
centre was flattened completely.
In addition to being a holiday resort, Swansea is also a
commercial centre, and the recently regenerated dock
areas are home to some cutting-edge hi-tech industries.
One of the most well-known employers in Swansea is the
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. Whilst the city
itself has a long history, many of the city centre
buildings are post-war as much of the centre was
destroyed by World War II bombing in the so-called Three
Nights' Blitz. Within the city centre, sites worth a
visit are the ruins of the castle, the Marina, the Glynn
Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea Museum, the Dylan Thomas
Centre, the Environmental Centre, and the Central
Market, which is the largest covered market in Wales. It
backs onto the Quadrant shopping centre which was built
in the 1970s.
Wind Street is the city's main watering hole and also
the location of many chain restaurants. Many of these
buildings were originally banks, with one being the old
central Post Office and thus they are substantially
larger than some of the other city centre pubs. Discos
and clubs line the Kingsway and this street is one of
two hubs of central Swansea nightlife, the other being
the aforementioned Wind Street. St Helen's Road connects
the city centre with the Brynmill area, and has many
Indian and Bangladeshi restaurants and shops on it:
convenient when walking back from the Kingsway to
Brynmill in the evening.
Swansea was granted city status in 1969, to mark Prince
Charles's investiture as the Prince of Wales. It
obtained the further right to a have Lord Mayor in 1982.
Courtesy of Wikimedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea |
