Workingmen's club which served miners and tin plate workers for a century faces demolition

NewsLatest Wales NewsSwanseaGorseinon Workingmen's Club was bought at auction16:16, 17 Jul 2026A former workingmen’s club which was bought at auction could be knocked down and replaced with housing. Gorseinon Workingmen’s Club, which once served miners and tinplate workers, has three cellar rooms, a stage and a snooker room. It closed as a social club in 2023.‌The building was put up for auction with a guide price of £100,000 and went for £140,000 with the sale completing in February this year. Now plans have been submitted to Swansea Council to knock it down to make way for housing, although at this stage applicant Victor Johnson is just asking if prior approval is needed for demolition.‌The two-storey building extends a considerable way at the rear at single-storey level and the plan is