Swansea City Centre Christmas Decorations, 2018

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Kingsway Road Works

Kingsway Road Improvements

Kingsway Road Works

Kingsway Roadworks

The Kingsway Roadworks

The Old Martha's/Car Park Site Ready For Rebuild

The Old Oceana/Odeon Complex Rebuild

Artist's Impression of New Building

Artist's Impression of New Building

Artist's Impression of New Building

The Old Odeon/Oceana Demolition

The Old Odeon/Oceana Demolition

Oceana Demolition, Kingsway

The Old Odeon/Tesco/Oceana Complex Demolition

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Odeon Outdoor Lighting

There are not many more days left of Swansea's iconic Oceana building on the Kinsway, WIth that in mind, I thought I would capture a quick snap of what is left of the outside lighting that is located beneath the overhang over the front entrance of the building. When it's gone its gone and all that:

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Books For Free

The charity 'Healthy Planet' have a great free bookshop down on the Kingsway. The company operates by saving books no longer needed by libraries and other charity shops and offers them back to the reading public for free. They also accept donations.

The books are mostly in great readable conditions and you can find a wide variety of reading subject here from various decades. Run by volunteer staff, the opening times are a bit hit and miss, but the place is definitely worth checking out. You might be surprised just what you might find in there.

Lionheart and Lightsout

Lionheart and Lightsout by Bedwr Williams

Located near the soon-to-be-demolished Oceana complex building on The Kingsway is this interesting public artwork by Bedwr Williams. Comprised of four brass high-heeled footprints set in four connecting pavement slabs, the piece celebrates an incident which occurred outside the nightclub in 2009.

Cage-fighters Daniel Lerwell a.k.a. ‘Lionheart' and James Lilley a.k.a. 'Lightsout’ were on a night out in Swansea's city centre when they were set upon by two drunks who took exception to the atheletes' drag outfits. The drunks had already caused a scene by setting upon other members of the public and, fired up by this previous fracas, they then attacked the two, unbeknown to them, cage-fighters. The fight lasted just seconds and was captured on CCTV. The video, showing the two violent drunk's comeuppance at the hands of Lionheart and Lightsout, went viral when it was released on social media and led to the two cage fighters being celebrated across the internet, tabloids and TV.

Bedwr Williams' outdoor art installation, memorialises the events of that night and literally sets in concrete the fight against harassment and persecution that was symbolised in the digital CCTV footage of the fight.

Old Pizza Hut Building, Kingsway

More change spotted on the Kingsway today - looks like there is work going on inside the old Pizza Hut building:

Oceana Road Signs

The road  signs outside the Oceana complex are  now in place along the Kingsway and when I walked past the site this afternoon there was a cacophony of hammering and demolition sounds emanating from inside the building. Work taking down the external walls of the building is currently scheduled for the end of this month. Watch this space for further images of the last few weeks of this much-loved building...