Off-Topic Old Cardiff photos

[Travis Bickle]

Queen street c1984

 

[Travis Bickle]

Spillers store on the Hayes c2000

 

[Melvin Udal]

Spillers store on the Hayes c2000

Bought loads from there

 

[Travis Bickle]

Bought loads from there

And me

 

[Travis Bickle]

An electric tram, Victoria Park (Victoria Park on the bus display), looks to be near the Clarks Pie shop? 1940’s and more recently

 

[Travis Bickle]

A photo taken during the demolition of the New Moon Club in the early eighties.

 

[the other bob wilson]

A photo taken during the demolition of the New Moon Club in the early eighties.

Good grief, it's half a century since the Friday night/Saturday morning when I drove home pissed from the Moon with about eight mates crammed into my Hillman Minx (my first ever car) and got stopped by the police around by Victoria Park at about 2.30. I'd been out all night and had a few pints at lunchtime, so I knew the breath test would be positive and went to Canton police station a few hours later to present my documents and pick up my car.
I waited for the inevitable summons and subsequent ban, but, somehow (I can only think some poor sod who'd had a pint and a half of shandy got their blood test mixed up with mine!) I got a letter a few days later saying that no further action would be taken as the blood test showed I was within the legal limits despite me probably being into double figures for the number of oints drunk over a period of about twelve hours. I certainly learned my lesson that night and limited myself to no more than a single pint whenever I had my car from then on.
The best thing about the whole episode was that as soon as I stopped after the Police signalled to me to pull over, one of my mates jumped straight out of the car and ran away from the police while calling them all of the names under the sun - he was so pissed/stoned though that they easily caught him and he was driven to the police station with me. I spent a few minutes in a cell, but had sobered up quickly and was allowed to go home (in fact, the copper who'd arrested me gave me a lift) once I had the blood test, but my mate spent the night in the cells before having to appear in court the following morning where he was fined for being drunk and disorderly!

 

[TDA]

Good grief, it's half a century since the Friday night/Saturday morning when I drove home pissed from the Moon with about eight mates crammed into my Hillman Minx (my first ever car) and got stopped by the police around by Victoria Park at about 2.30. I'd been out all night and had a few pints at lunchtime, so I knew the breath test would be positive and went to Canton police station a few hours later to present my documents and pick up my car.
I waited for the inevitable summons and subsequent ban, but, somehow (I can only think some poor sod who'd had a pint and a half of shandy got their blood test mixed up with mine!) I got a letter a few days later saying that no further action would be taken as the blood test showed I was within the legal limits despite me probably being into double figures for the number of oints drunk over a period of about twelve hours. I certainly learned my lesson that night and limited myself to no more than a single pint whenever I had my car from then on.
The best thing about the whole episode was that as soon as I stopped after the Police signalled to me to pull over, one of my mates jumped straight out of the car and ran away from the police while calling them all of the names under the sun - he was so pissed/stoned though that they easily caught him and he was driven to the police station with me. I spent a few minutes in a cell, but had sobered up quickly and was allowed to go home (in fact, the copper who'd arrested me gave me a lift) once I had the blood test, but my mate spent the night in the cells before having to appear in court the following morning where he was fined for being drunk and disorderly!

Horrible place. Crap music and warm bottled Newcastle Brown. (The New Moon club, not Canton Police Station)

 

[Jimmytaff]

Horrible place. Crap music and warm bottled Newcastle Brown. (The New Moon club, not Canton Police Station)

Before my time but from what I've heard it was full of prostitutes too

 

[the other bob wilson]

Horrible place. Crap music and warm bottled Newcastle Brown. (The New Moon club, not Canton Police Station)

Yeah, it was a right dive, but I found it quite cool when I was around 18-20. I thought the band that was there most weeks were good. As for prostitutes, yes I'm sure there were some there, but, unless I was really pissed, I would have run a mile from them at that age! Actually, I had my first ever job collecting payments for Tenovus (cancer charity) around Fairwater every Friday when I was about twelve and the most fanciable woman on the round turned out to be a regular at The Moon club during the year or so I went there, but she was about thirty then, so I thought she was ancient .

 

[Travis Bickle]

P & A Campbell's paddle steamer "Bristol Queen" at the Pier Head floating pontoon landing stage at low tide in August 1967

 

[Travis Bickle]

Cardiff by WH Bartlett 183 Years-Old Antique Steel Engraving

This Steel Engraved Print Has Been Removed from an Antique 1842 Edition of
Finden’s The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places and Coastal Scenery of Great Britain.
Illustrated By Views Taken on The Spot by W.H. Bartlett, with Descriptions by William Beattie.
Published London George Virtue, 1842 During the Reign of Queen Victoria

 

[kernel]

Cardiff by WH Bartlett 183 Years-Old Antique Steel Engraving

This Steel Engraved Print Has Been Removed from an Antique 1842 Edition of
Finden’s The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places and Coastal Scenery of Great Britain.
Illustrated By Views Taken on The Spot by W.H. Bartlett, with Descriptions by William Beattie.
Published London George Virtue, 1842 During the Reign of Queen Victoria

It's always seemed weird to me that they plonked the city hall in the middle of High Street like that. It must have been incredibly poky in there.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Green Farm Road 1968

 

[Travis Bickle]

Mynachdy Lock, undated photo

 

[Arfur Ap Llewellyn Europe]

Cardiff City v Chelsea 1984.
Venue Ninian Park.
A perfect day for the Terrace Dandy on both sides, Biggest mob ever to come to Ninian Park

 

[Melvin Udal]

Cardiff City v Chelsea 1984.
Venue Ninian Park.
A perfect day for the Terrace Dandy on both sides, Biggest mob ever to come to Ninian Park

Cokny cunts

 

[Travis Bickle]

The temporary Bailey Bridges at Ely Bridge in 1969/70

 

[Travis Bickle]

Castle Street and the private garden in front of Cardiff Castle in 1906.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Cardiff Castle, 1700s (engraving)