Mount Pleasant, Swansea

[citation needed] The demographic of the area changed in recent years with the expansion of the former Swansea Metropolitan University campus on the main Mount Pleasant road and the arrival of a substantial student population.

The Mount Pleasant Estate, a substantial development of four parallel roads of back-to-back terraced housing completed in 1900.

It is a steep, sloping cobbled street which featured in the film Twin Town in a scene with a daring car stunt.

Alexandra Road is a designated conservation area, and consists of a number of buildings which were constructed between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

It was later called Tawe Lodge, and eventually became Mount Pleasant Hospital in 1929, when it was taken over by Swansea County Borough Council.

[7] In 1853 Swansea Grammar School for Boys moved from the city centre to a new building on Mount Pleasant designed by the architect Thomas Taylor.

It was built to accommodate English speakers in the congregation of the former Back Lane chapel when it divided after the death of its minister Joseph Harris (Gomer).

Most of the former Swansea Grammar School site on Mount Pleasant was destroyed by incendiary bombs during the Swansea blitz of World War II. This main surviving structure, then part of Swansea Metropolitan University , was renamed the Dylan Thomas Building in 1988 to honour its former pupil.