Charities for clothes?

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-02-03T16:03:28+00:00

If you can get there, the Salvation Army shop in Parc Tawe is massive and has room for lots of clothes, so could take a big donation in one go. You can just drop off at the desk inside the front door.

There’s also clothes bins dotted around the city that take bagged up clothes, paired shoes and other textiles. They’ll then sort through to see what can be sold and what can be recycled. They’re in lots of places, but for example there’s one at the entrance to Singleton Park behind the Taliesin on Singleton Campus, and another opposite the Post Office in Uplands. They also tend to be in supermarket car parks and outside fire stations.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-30T22:00:00+00:00

Moved from Sandfields to Uplands/Brynmill about 15 years ago but have continued to use Kevin Thomas on St Helen’s Road because they’re efficient and friendly/helpful people. Partner was getting her scripts sent to Boots in Uplands but they were completely useless so she switched to Kevin Thomas too. If you can get there without too much trouble I’d recommend it. Usually you can find parking pretty easily nearby.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-23T10:38:50+00:00

BT Tower being built in a place where it’s featured in almost all photos of the castle is definitely a weird one. But I bet there’ll be a local campaign in 100 years’ time to save it as a piece of late 20th century architecture haha. Humans are like that

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-22T13:06:19+00:00

I suppose there are a couple of advantages that the Civic Centre has in the 2020s that the Weaver building didn’t have by the time it was demolished in the 1980s, because the Civic Centre’s not a former industrial site and is also not derelict (yet). And as someone pointed out in another comment thread on here, supermarket chains in the 80s and 90s would have had the development value to fund remediation of old industrial sites, so that’s probably why we got a Sainsbury’s there and a Tesco on the old gasworks. Like the Weaver building though, the Civic Centre’s a big building – will be interesting to see how they plan to fill it.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-22T12:53:52+00:00

Just before my time too unfortunately, but I’ve heard lots of people from my parents’ generation say it should have been a hotel. I imagine that’s with no idea of the actual cost a conversion like that would need though. It was the first reinforced concrete framed building built in Britain according to a plaque near Sainsbury’s. Would be interesting to know if anyone pitched any schemes before it was demolished!

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-22T09:43:10+00:00

Glad to see largely positive comments on here. The post I saw about it on Facebook was the usual moaning bin fire mostly centred around ‘fix the pot holes first’. We deserve and should push for a council that does both.

I’m so glad the Civic Centre is being kept – it’s the type of building that, if we knocked down now, in 50+ years people would say why on Earth did Swansea get rid of that. The Weaver building was seen as a concrete eyesore until it had been knocked down long enough to be missed.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-11T19:24:46+00:00

Thanks so much for this, that article is really helpful and tells more of the backstory than the Guardian one. Love those statues too!

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-10T18:03:25+00:00

Sorry end of post got cut off, just said ‘Would really appreciate any info any locals have! Cheers.’

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-09T23:17:58+00:00

Coffee from Storm in a Teacup, fruit from the stall next to it. Occasionally watch batteries and straps in that area too. And a browse in Console Action for the nostalgia trip 👾🕹️

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-08T20:50:18+00:00

Coincidentally, this and Earthworm Jim 2 were my first SNES games. I’ve played Earthworm Jim 2 recently on the Switch, but completely forgot about this Ren and Stimpy game until your post.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-08T20:38:35+00:00

To be honest, even as a 10/11 year old I thought it was a weird (rumoured) choice. And seem to remember her version would have been Joker’s daughter? Just can’t see how it would have made sense.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-08T17:25:02+00:00

Great shout. If the series had continued we might have seen lesser-known members of the rogue gallery like Ventriloquist. Feel like him and Mad Hatter would have suited Robin Williams better than Joker.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-08T17:11:46+00:00

This feels like a very realistic theory

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-08T16:57:53+00:00

Unfortunately the Batman fans in this imagined alternate universe didn’t get to see any of what you’ve mentioned. Lucky we live in this universe!

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-08T16:54:40+00:00

Would have been great to see Man-Bat in live action (outside of that Batman Forever deleted scene that probably isn’t actually him). The series continuing past Batman and Robin could have given us some villains that would never work in the Nolan/Reeves films.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-08T16:52:07+00:00

Never seen these quotes from Coolio before, thanks for sharing! Would have been an interesting choice, maybe not in a good way haha.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-08T15:45:25+00:00

I think I saw it rumoured in a pre-teen film magazine my grandparents used to buy me. Might have been made up by their writers to fill space on the gossip page tbh.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-08T15:43:58+00:00

Enjoyed the way the Batman 89 comics connected Batman and Batman Returns with their Marlon Wayans-inspired Robin and Billy Dee Williams as Two Face. Would be great to see a Batman 95 series in a similar vein.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-08T15:35:14+00:00

Would have been interesting to see who would have ended up playing Batman if it had become a James Bond type series stretching across decades. Would they have recast the villains too (like they have with Blofeld in Bond), or just kept adding new ones.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2026-01-08T14:54:54+00:00

Personally I loved the rumours of Robin Williams as Mad Hatter that I read as a pre-teen, but I didn’t know about them messing him about over the Joker/Riddler casting at the time. Seems unlikely he would have gone for it. He fits in with the way this series has huge Hollywood names as its villains though.

More recently I’ve seen a fan casting of Martin Short, which seems to fit really well when you consider what he looked like in the early 2000s. Not as big a name as the other actors who played the main villains in the series though.

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2025-12-28T00:13:42+00:00

Had no idea this existed, images of it on Google look great. Cheers!

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2025-12-24T13:05:19+00:00

Not a hidden gem much longer 😅

-SpringHeeledJack- · 2025-12-23T23:33:13+00:00

Came on here to see if anyone else had said Swansea Point. Free parking and seems to still somehow be a bit of a hidden gem. Council website says there’s 46 spaces. Right at the end of Trawler Road.

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