The 1861 UK Census shows the Whitehall Inn, the Temperance House and the Station Hotel on one side of Station Road, with the Apple Tree, the Melbourne Inn, Oddfellows, the Railway Inn, the New Inn, the Neptune, and the Sunderland Bridge, on the other.

The census for Station Road shows that Robert McCulloch, aged 34, a draper and innkeeper from Scotland, had taken over the Station Hotel. Robert McCulloch was the son-in-law of John Billing of the Union Inn, having married his daughter Elizabeth.

In March 1865 John Billing, widower, died followed by his elder daughter Mary (Higgs) who died in America during 1866.

Following her father’s death Elizabeth (Billing) McCulloch seems to have moved to St Columb, Cornwall. Slater’s Trade Directory shows that in 1866 Evan Jones was landlord of the Union Inn, Church Street, Mrs Suzannah Rees was landlady of the Cornish Arms, King Square and David Gwyn was proprietor of the Station family and commercial hotel, near the railway station and at Castle Square, Swansea.

Elizabeth Gwyn (the daughter of John and Mary Higgs), as the wife of David Gwyn helped to run the Station Hotel, in Station Road.

The 1891 UK census for Station Road shows that David Gwyn was Head of Family, aged  56 and Hotel Proprietor & Clerk in Railway, born Glamorgan. His wife Elizabeth Gwyn was age 50 and born in Liverpool.

For more tha 25 years David and Elizabeth Gwyn managed the Station Hotel, but by 1897 there was no trace of the Billing or Gwyn families in the Trade directory. The Cornish Arms, King Square was managed by Elizabeth John, the Union Inn, Church Street was managed by George Cooper, Boiler Maker, and the Station Hotel, Station Road, was managed by Henry Thomas, Licensed Victualler.