Off-Topic Old Cardiff photos

[Travis Bickle]

 

[TDA]

Barry Docks & Railway Office, built 1897 - 1900, is a Calendar Building.
It features 4 floors (seasons), 52 marble fireplaces (weeks in a year), 12 panels in the porch (months), 2 circular windows, one on each side of the porch representing the Sun and Moon, 7 lights behind the traceried fanlight window (days in a week), 365 windows ( days in a year) and a staircase of Portland stone which consists of 31 stairs (days in most months).

I've seen that reference to the design as well, but I have my doubts about it. Is there an inner courtyard? I think there would have to be to get anywhere near 365 windows. I don't see any round windows either.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Wentloog rd, Rumney c1930 and nowadays

 

[Travis Bickle]

The Blue Anchor pub, once on Wharton street and photographed in the late nineteenth century. it was demolished in the late 1920s, for part of the James Howell store

 

[SweetFA]

The Blue Anchor pub, once on Wharton street and photographed in the late nineteenth century. it was demolished in the late 1920s, for part of the James Howell store

What is the text for the Ely Brewery - Stouts & ???

 

[Malarkey]

What is the text for the Ely Brewery - Stouts & ???

Porter. I think it's something like a Brains Dark. Probably wrong though

 

[Popeye]

Wentloog rd, Rumney c1930 and nowadays

Miss the Rompney

 

[TDA]

What is the text for the Ely Brewery - Stouts & ???

Porter. I think it's something like a Brains Dark. Probably wrong though

Porter is an old fashioned very dark beer, usually bottled. Less sweet that stout.

 

[SweetFA]

Porter is an old fashioned very dark beer, usually bottled. Less sweet that stout.

I thought I read it as that, although it’s not something I had heard of before. Thanks for the info.

 

[Arfur Ap Llewellyn Europe]

Junction of Duke/St John street and Kingsway, decorated for The Royal visit of King Edward VII in 190, whose horse drawn carriage is making its way onto Queen street.Three ancient Inns are visible, The Rummer Tavern,The Green Dragon (later Fulton Dunlops) and The Glove & Shears, which is just visible on the right of the photo

What about the one that is now a museum piece above the Burger King?

 

[Travis Bickle]

 

[Travis Bickle]

The Drope viaduct known locally as the 9 arches, it carried coal and passenger trains from valleys to Barry Docks and Barry Island, demolished ( by dynamite) it the early 70s for the building of the first part of the A4232.

 

[Arfur Ap Llewellyn Europe]

The Drope viaduct known locally as the 9 arches, it carried coal and passenger trains from valleys to Barry Docks and Barry Island, demolished ( by dynamite) it the early 70s for the building of the first part of the A4232.

What an absolute waste

 

[Travis Bickle]

The Victorian public toilets at Kingsway in the 1950s. Got rid of in the late 70s?

 

[Travis Bickle]

The impressive facade of Noah Rees & Sons, photographed in 1900, which was on Working street.Through the entrance and behind the building, was one of Cardiffs old courts, Thomas Court and was used by the company for storage.It disappeared, along with the left hand three quarters of the building in 1963, for the fine fare building, which became Primark, although I can’t remember a Primark on Working street and I’m not sure when the remaining quarter of the building was demolished?

 

[the other bob wilson]

The Victorian public toilets at Kingsway in the 1950s. Got rid of in the late 70s?

I worked in the Law Courts for a few months in 1976 and would often walk around that area in my lunch breaks, I can't remember them being there then, but that doesn't mean that they weren't.

 

[Travis Bickle]

A view up High street,towards High Corner House and The Castle c1876

 

[Travis Bickle]

 

[Melvin Udal]

Love flares.

 

[Travis Bickle]

St Mary Street in the snow around 1915.