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The Smelting Pot | Learn about Swansea and the Copper Industry

7 Mai 2025

The learning team at National Waterfront Museum are always trying to help assist learners and teaching professionals to learn more about Welsh history and now they are creating audio recordings that go through the story of smelting copper in Swansea. The first recording can be found here or on SoundCloud and there will be more to follow. Be sure to look at the Learn pages for the National Waterfront Museum for learning resources. 

The Smelting Pot | Episode One | What is Copper and why Swansea became Copperopolis

Join Leisa and Rebecca from the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, to learn about what copper is and why Swansea became known as Copperopolis.

 

Find out more about daily life in Swansea in 1851 here

Nid yw sylwadau ar gael ar hyn o bryd. Ymddiheuriadau am yr anghyfleustra.