Old Cardiff photos

[stantys tattoos]

Different views of the Glamorganshire Canal at Kingsway

willy hanging out or dropping a pellet?

 

[Travis Bickle]

Park Street and Wood Street 1957/8, building Thomson House

 

[Travis Bickle]

David Evans' Eagle Foundry, Llandaff Yard. Nowadays Lidl, Llandaff North

 

[TDA]

1947 aerial photo of the same lock. Cow & Snuffers on the south side of the canal.

 

[TDA]

These might have been posted before

 

[Travis Bickle]

Bowcott's the butcher, Trinity Street 1959, which was absorbed into Howells .

 

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A E Harris car showroom Castle Street,1950s

 

[Travis Bickle]

Industrial and Maritime Museum 1990

 

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Gabalfa Lock. Lock No 47 on the Glamorganshire Canal. The Master Gunner, south of the Gabalfa Avenue/ Cathedral View roundabout, now stands on the site.

 

[Jimmytaff]

Industrial and Maritime Museum 1990

I hated that place as a kid. A trip there and seeing the mud when the tide was out was pretty depressing

 

[Travis Bickle]

High street junction 1960

 

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A horse and cart in St Mary’s street 1910

 

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Norwegian Church 1987. Dismantled and put in storage pending bay redevelopment .Today on Harbour road.

 

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North Road pre flyover, bus passing the Plaza cinema

 

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Merchants Exchange built in 1886, then rebuilt after fire in 1892. It became the headquarters of Powell Duffryn in the 1930s.
Demolished for the Welsh Industrial & Maritime Museum 1977 - 1998, which in turn was demolished for Mermaid Quay.

 

[Travis Bickle]

An undated postcard of the Old Mill St Fagans

 

[TDA]

An undated postcard of the Old Mill St Fagans

I don't think the house on the postcard is the one circled. I think it's this one just north of the railway line and river on the corner of the entrance to the Folk Museum.

 

[Travis Bickle]

I don't think the house on the postcard is the one circled. I think it's this one just north of the railway line and river on the corner of the entrance to the Folk Museum.

Unless that house was reconstructed there

 

[TDA]

Unless that house was reconstructed there

Good point, but I think the aspect of the other house in the background (which is still standing) indicates that The Old Mill was back towards the village and on the other side of the road anyway. Mill House was more likely to be on the watercourse.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Good point, but I think the aspect of the other house in the background (which is still standing) indicates that The Old Mill was back towards the village and on the other side of the road anyway. Mill House was more likely to be on the watercourse.

It wasn’t me that marked it in red