 The facility cost £6 million and is home to the club's reserve and academy teams, including an indoor pitch as well as grass and Artificial turf outdoor fields.The first copper works in the Swansea area was opened in Landore in 1717, and in the 1860s Carl Wilhelm Siemens perfected the open hearth furnace at a local works.By 1873 the area had one of the world's largest steelworks, and industrial pollution in Landore inspired the doggerel "it came to pass in days of yore / the Devil chanced upon Landore.