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Nino Williams

The historical site which made Swansea a world leader that's painstakingly being restored

It's a site that once put Swansea on the world map.

The Hafod -Morfa Copperworks site was the world's largest copperworks site in the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th century, when the lower Swansea valley was the globe's leading centre for copper smelting.

But the site, a stone's throw from the Swansea.com Stadium, had remained derelict for years until Swansea Council secured a £3.75m National Lottery Heritage Fund grant to transform it.

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