[3] There was a time when Penclawdd had a forge, twenty grocers, three butchers, three drapers, four fish and chip shops, eleven pubs, a cinema, the still remaining three chapels and a church and a busy railway station.

Around 1800, John Vivian of Truro, Cornwall, became managing partner in the copper works at Penclawdd and Loughor then owned by the Cheadle Brasswire Company of Staffordshire.

on Wednesday, 28 October 1942, a Bristol Blenheim bomber crossed the Burry estuary at a height of 5,000 feet.

An artillery range had been set up in the area at the outset of the war and a number of weapons were tested there, including mustard gas.

Three pounds of liquid anthrax spores detonated on the sandy ground of the Burry Inlet, upwind of two tethered lines of sixty animals.

Apart from work carried out within the then chemical defence experimental station, Porton Down, a device containing anthrax was tested on the beach at Penclawdd, South Wales, in 1942.

Investigations subsequent to this trial revealed no evidence of any residual contamination.At the time of the experiments, scientists believed that the tide had "effectively decontaminated" the entire area.

In its formative years the club had no permanent pitch, but played on suitable available ground in various areas of the village.

He won the Lance Todd Trophy for the out standing player in the Challenge cup final at Wembley in 1947.

Up until the 1970s, cockle gathering was a traditional female occupation with women using hand-rakes and riddles (coarse sieves) with the help of donkey carts.

Today the harvesting is done mostly by men, often using tractors or Land Rovers and processed in two large, modern factories in Crofty.

Other local delicacies include laverbread (laver seaweed Porphyra umbilicalis washed and boiled; it is eaten dipped in oatmeal and fried in bacon fat) and salt marsh lamb.