Off-Topic Old Cardiff photos

[Arfur Ap Llewellyn Europe]

…and more recently:

Beautiful building.

 

[Travis Bickle]

The Regal and Gabalfa library. Both opened in the late 1920s, with Western Avenue opening a few years later, in 1933.Gabalfa flyover now dominates the location

 

[Travis Bickle]

A 1908 photo of the Mason Arms's hotel which once stood on Queen Street

 

[Travis Bickle]

 

[Major Clanger]

Beautiful building.

Beautiful inside, as well:

 

[Travis Bickle]

The flood in 1960, Kings road, Canton

 

[Travis Bickle]

West Dock Public House, Cardiff c.1890
Brewer v Naish.

The Horse that panicked and ran into a pub.

For those that remember visiting the northern dock named pubs in Cardiff, there was the East Dock and the West Dock.
Remember the last landlord of the West Dock in the 1960s came from the Bridge Hotel in Bute Street. His tenure was not long.
His pub was demolished in the 1960s and stood at the head of Collingdon Road and the Bute West Dock.

In the old day’s sailors could leave their ship and walk straight into the pub - it was that convenient! Between the ship and the pub was one building, Edward England's potato warehouse.
Thomas Naish, the landlord of the West Dock Public House, Herbert Street took out a private summons against John Brewer a potato merchant.
• He alleged that a horse driven by a carter employed by Brewer, had crashed against his pub window, destroying it, breaking up seats inside the pub and causing damage to other pub property. The most expensive work was the lettering on the window, showing the name of the pub.

The carter said that he was driving the horse towards Herbert Street from Bute Street when a whistle of a Taff Vale railway engine scared the horse and he charged, pulling the cart behind him. He had tried to control the horse which nearly ran down the canal bank and he had pulled up the reins with some force, which annoyed the horse even more and it ran straight into the pub window, head first!
Whose fault was it? The Steam Engine? The Horse? The carter? Brewer the owner?

The Judge awarded Thomas Naish, the West Dock landlord £11, plus costs.
John Brewer was deemed liable for it all.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Ninian Park 1947.. Getty Images.

 

[Travis Bickle]

This photo was taken, which forming part of Cardiff Borough Records, back in 1870. It shows the view from the city centre over the bridge towards Riverside and Canton. Very different to the view from the same place today

 

[Major Clanger]

The Hayes, circa 1972....

I read that the sculpture made a re-appearance in 2019, but I only recall it from 1972.

 

[Travis Bickle]

HM Prison from the air May 1951, showing Knox Road in the foreground leading to Adam Street. Originally named Gaol Lane it was changed to Knox Road in 1936 at the suggestion of the then Governor Major John S Knox.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Antique print from 1806 by J Hassell of Castell Coch.

 

[the other bob wilson]

The Hayes, circa 1972....







said that

I read that the sculpture made a re-appearance in 2019, but I only recall it from 1972.

I would never have said its first appearance was nearly 50 years ago and I thought it was around for much longer than just the one year in the 70s.

 

[the other bob wilson]

HM Prison from the air May 1951, showing Knox Road in the foreground leading to Adam Street. Originally named Gaol Lane it was changed to Knox Road in 1936 at the suggestion of the then Governor Major John S Knox.

What an ego to suggest that a street name be changed so it can be bnamed after you

 

[Jimmytaff]

The Hayes, circa 1972....









I read that the sculpture made a re-appearance in 2019, but I only recall it from 1972.

Where was meant to have reappeared? Pretty sure it wasn't in town

 

[Major Clanger]

Where was meant to have reappeared? Pretty sure it wasn't in town

I read about its 2019 re-appearance in a BBC News article:

Garth Evans mining hammer sculpture returns to Cardiff

The artwork has not been seen in the city for almost 50 years.

www.bbc.com

It also has a short entry in Wikipedia:

Untitled (Evans) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

According to the articles, it was located back on the Hayes, somewhere near its' 1972 position:

Apparently, it's now to be found at a University of Wales location, in GlynTaff:

More associated reading can be found here:

Untitled Sculpture - Archive of Destruction

On many levels, the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation’s City Sculpture Project of 1972 could be viewed as a fantastic failure. Designed to introduce the public to the latest developments in modern sculpture, the project sited fourteen artworks in towns and cities across England and Wales for a period...

archiveofdestruction.com

Untitled Sculpture by Garth Evans - Rhondda Cynon Taf Our Heritage

www.rctourheritage.com

https://www.southwales.ac.uk/oriel-y-bont/artwork-in-focus/

 

[Travis Bickle]

An undated postcard of Barry Island pleasure park, featuring the old wooden scenic railway

 

[Travis Bickle]

Church Street 1982

 

[Major Clanger]

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

In your photograph you can also see the original location of the drinking fountain, which is now located over on Kingsway, near the Dock Feeder:

 

[Travis Bickle]

In your photograph you can also see the original location of the drinking fountain, which is now located over on Kingsway, near the Dock Feeder:

Good spotting