Cwmdonkin Park - Blue Plaque - Swansea, Wales.
N 51° 37.309 W 003° 58.176
30U E 432877 N 5719422
Cwmdonkin Park - A beautiful park situated in the heart of the city of Swansea, with unique features and various references to Dylan Thomas, including a Blue Plaque, with reference, to Dylan, The Park, & the Poem 'Hunchback in the Park'.
Waymark Code: WMMFC2
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/12/2014
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The birthplace of Dylan Thomas is only a stone's throw away in Cwmdonkin drive. The park proved to be an important source of inspiration to the poet and featured in his work, including the radio broadcasts Return Journey and Reminiscences of Childhood, and, most famously, the poem 'The hunchback in the park'.
£1.4 Million has been spent in the park. in readiness for the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth in 1914. The plaque and the refurbished café, Memorial Shelter, and Seating around the drinking fountain, are some of the additions, and improvements, for 2014.
Dylan Thomas was born in 5 Cwm Donkin Drive, in 1914 and wrote and conceived two thirds of his work here. Today Dylan’s birthplace has been lovingly restored to its Edwardian splendour and is open to visitors." Source: (
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"In his radio broadcast 'Reminiscences of Childhood' he dwells at length on the importance of this space and its profound significance in his early life. It was
... "A world within the world of the sea town ... full of terrors and treasures ... a country just born and always changing ... and that park grew up with me ... In that small, iron-railed universe of rockery, gravel-path, playbank, bowling-green, bandstand reservoir, chrysanthemum garden, ...in the grass one must keep off, I endured, with pleasure, the first agonies of unrequited love, the first slow boiling in the belly of a bad poem, the strutting and raven-locked self-dramatization of what, at that time seemed incurable adolescence." Text source: (
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