Old Cardiff photos

[TDA]

It wasn’t me that marked it in red

I didn't think it would have been

 

[Travis Bickle]

 

[Travis Bickle]

The location of The Ten Acre Field, Cardiff painted by Alexander Wilson is hardly recognisable today but was the area near Moira Terrace,. Adamsdown Cemetery & Chapel, Howard Gardens. and the perimeter wall of Cardiff Prison. The towers of St Mary the Virgin Church at Bute street can be seen on the left hand side of the painting.

 

[Travis Bickle]

City rd c1912 and more recently

 

[Arfur Ap Llewellyn Europe]

Blew my mind this.

Gabalfa flyover mid construction

 

[Arfur Ap Llewellyn Europe]

The location of The Ten Acre Field, Cardiff painted by Alexander Wilson is hardly recognisable today but was the area near Moira Terrace,. Adamsdown Cemetery & Chapel, Howard Gardens. and the perimeter wall of Cardiff Prison. The towers of St Mary the Virgin Church at Bute street can be seen on the left hand side of the painting.

Think I prefer the original

 

[Jimmytaff]

Think I prefer the original

I preferred Adamsdown during the Ice Age

 

[Travis Bickle]

The remaining Gas Holder from Ferry Road Gasworks, now stands next to IKEA, and is Grade II listed.
Built in 1881, it consists of 16 cast iron Doric columns with cornices in the style of 15th Century Florentine architecture.Originally chambers would rise and fall on tracks that ran up and down the outer metal framework. As the gas was pumped in, the chamber would rise. When gas was being used, the chamber would fall.

 

[Travis Bickle]

A undated postcard of the Ladies' Training College, College Road, Barry. Nowadays Hen Coleg Resource Centre.

 

[Travis Bickle]

The Carlton,Queen street. Opened in the 1890s, by R.E.Jones, it was sadly bombed during the blitz and never reopened.It was demolished in the 1950s and replaced by BHS.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Hayes bridge rd,1960s and more recently

 

[kernel]

Hayes bridge rd,1960s and more recently

Not a single thing has changed in all that time. Crazy.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Frederick street 1970

 

[Travis Bickle]

Wooden pit props stock piled at Cardiff docks during the 1912 coal strike

 

[TH63]

Hayes bridge rd,1960s and more recently

Sad thing is, I remember the first photo, everything being demolished to build the shopping centre, then the ice rink, then demolishing everything again

 

[Jimmytaff]

Sad thing is, I remember the first photo, everything being demolished to build the shopping centre, then the ice rink, then demolishing everything again

Tell.us about the war Uncle Tony.......

 

[TH63]

Tell.us about the war Uncle Tony.......

Falklands? Gulf?

 

[Melvin Udal]

Falklands? Gulf?

Boar

 

[Jimmytaff]

Falklands? Gulf?

First

 

[Jimmytaff]

Boar

Ah the pig wars o 1964