Off-Topic Old Cardiff photos

[TDA]

The Odean cinema, Queen street, 1960’s

Double yellow lines? When did they start appearing?

 

[Travis Bickle]

Double yellow lines? When did they start appearing?

 

[TDA]

1960 - Earlier than I thought

 

[Travis Bickle]

18th August 1906 – BETTING ON DOCK VIEW ROAD

Robert Yarr, a young man of Barry, was arrested for loitering on Dock View Road for the purpose of betting. Between 12.30pm and 1.15pm in the afternoon, no fewer than thirty men were seen handing him slips of paper along with money. Yarr promptly dispatched these wagers to a Cardiff bookmaker by express post. His enterprise ended badly – he was fined 40 shillings plus costs.

 

[Travis Bickle]

An undated postcard

 

[Travis Bickle]

Newport rd 1965

 

[Travis Bickle]

Merthyr Road, Whitchurch Village Post Office c 2000. Now home to Dominos

 

[Major Clanger]

Newport rd 1965

Newport rd 1965

Lloyds Bank and what remained of the Royal Cafe just a few years later, in 1982...

 

[Steve R]

18th August 1906 – BETTING ON DOCK VIEW ROAD

Robert Yarr, a young man of Barry, was arrested for loitering on Dock View Road for the purpose of betting. Between 12.30pm and 1.15pm in the afternoon, no fewer than thirty men were seen handing him slips of paper along with money. Yarr promptly dispatched these wagers to a Cardiff bookmaker by express post. His enterprise ended badly – he was fined 40 shillings plus costs.

Our street.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Our street.

Are those buildings still there?

 

[Steve R]

Are those buildings still there?

Unfortunately not. The tall building on the left was the Chain Locker (Hotel/Pub servicing Sailors and Prostitutes alike), demolished in the 70s/80s for a Care home. The one shop on the corner is still there but shops and houses on the left are now shitty flats. Our house was built in 1910 for executive workers whilst building the docks.

 

[Major Clanger]

The Odean cinema, Queen street, 1960’s

Five new pence for Saturday morning mayhem, if I remember rightly.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Western Avenue, viewed from Insole Place in 1943 and more recently

 

[Travis Bickle]

The Town Hall on St Mary street and about 5 years before its demolition in 1915

 

[Arfur Ap Llewellyn Europe]

Lloyds Bank and what remained of the Royal Cafe just a few years later, in 1982...

Longcross Court being built there.

Longcross Court being demolished below:

 

[Major Clanger]

Longcross Court being built there.

Longcross Court being demolished below:

Thank you; I had no idea that it was being demolished. I see from Wales Online that it will be replaced by student accommodation:

Massive 18-storey student block to be built in Cardiff in £8.7m deal

Fusion Group will create a new 706 student bedroom scheme following its acquisition of the Longcross Court site

www.walesonline.co.uk

Wasn’t that what also happened to Glossop Terrace maternity hospital, just across the street?

 

[Travis Bickle]

Aerial view of Queen Street near Park Place and Churchill Way in the early 1950's.

 

[Travis Bickle]

1928 Cardiff Docks

 

[Travis Bickle]

The Old Airport Tremorfa, closed down 2006

 

[Travis Bickle]

An old photo showing a tennis game at Howells School. c1908. Llandaff, no sign of Dirk or his girls