Off-Topic Old Cardiff photos

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A painting of Cardiff Castle by French artist Alphonse Dousseau around 1840

 

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Grangetown Baptist Church and schoolrooms at Clive Street around 1905.

 

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The Park Hotel, 1914 and 1954

 

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Queen street c1904

 

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Queen Street when it was two way traffic. ( Queen Street finally said goodbye to traffic on November 3rd. 1975.) Cardiff.

 

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Howells Garage on Newport rd, photographed in 1959 and the same location nowadays

 

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Pierhead c1979 and 2023

 

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The Town Hall on St Mary street c1910. It was demolished in 1915, as no longer fit for purpose, as The City Hall was built in 1906. Notice the drinking fountain, built into the small wall on the right. It was preserved and moved to Mill Lane. It moved again in 1952 and currently stands on the bridge over the dock feeder at Kingsway.

 

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The Castle during the 1940s

 

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The new BBC Studios on Llantrisant rd, Llandaff 1966

 

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Caerau Square, Ely c1960 and where St David’s crescent and Cymric Close now stand. The Square, was in Ely despite the name and was built just after WWI, then known as “No.9 road” and surrounded by fields. It was linked to the main rd by a footpath. The houses fell into disrepair and were demolished in the late 60s.

 

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A relatively new Gabalfa Flyover, looking towards a relatively new Heath Hospital (UHW) 1972

 

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Children pose on the grass verge on Chapel Row, St Mellons c1910, looking towards Newport rd, with The Fox & Hounds pub up on the right, which is hidden by the trees in the more recent photo

 

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Llandaff Cathedral, viewed from Heol fair 1960s and nowadays

 

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An orange double decker, on Countisbury Avenue Llanrumney in the 1990s

 

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The original Norwegian church in its old position, an undated photo

 

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Children pose on the grass verge on Chapel Row, St Mellons c1910, looking towards Newport rd, with The Fox & Hounds pub up on the right, which is hidden by the trees in the more recent photo

The thing that struck about the 1910 photo Trav is that those kids are standing on what is now a War memorial - built in 1923.

 

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The thing that struck about the 1910 photo Trav is that those kids are standing on what is now a War memorial - built in 1923.

It‘s not the memorial site that’s further up by the old A48 road, the grass patch is still there, funnily enough I walked passed it yesterday

 

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It‘s not the memorial site that’s further up by the old A48 road, the grass patch is still there, funnily enough I walked passed it yesterday

Top tip - If some idiot is going along Newport Rd 10mph towards St Illtyd’s/town, swing a left into Chapel Row then into Old Hill and you’ll be at the top before the slow feckers.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Top tip - If some idiot is going along Newport Rd 10mph towards St Illtyd’s/town, swing a left into Chapel Row then into Old Hill and you’ll be at the top before the slow feckers.

Have you seen all the cars parked in the bus lane outside St Iltyd’s when they’re dropping off and picking up