Off-Topic Old Cardiff photos

[Travis Bickle]

Bridge Street looking towards Cardiff Masonic Hall, Guildford Street then & nowadays - Rapports still there

 

[Travis Bickle]

St John street c1989

 

[TH63]

St John street c1989

The name of the place where burger king is now is bugging me. Can’t you remember?

 

[Major Clanger]

The name of the place where burger king is now is bugging me. Can’t you remember?

It used to be the Gas Board showroom in the seventies, much like the SWEB showroom on The Hayes.

 

[Major Clanger]

It used to be the Gas Board showroom in the seventies, much like the SWEB showroom on The Hayes.

You can see the Gas Board showroom in the background of this photograph, which is from 1982-ish, I believe:

 

[TDA]

You can see the Gas Board showroom in the background of this photograph, which is from 1982-ish, I believe:

Almost certainly the Jan / Feb of 1982. Along with 1963, the worst snow in my lifetime.

 

[Travis Bickle]

A general view of the bus/train station 2007

 

[Travis Bickle]

Cardiff Bay - late 1990s - looking towards entrance to Roath Dock with the Visitor Centre to the left.

 

[Travis Bickle]

The name of the place where burger king is now is bugging me. Can’t you remember?

Was it the Casa Gil restaurant?

 

[Travis Bickle]

A postcard of Sully Hospital, 1955

 

[Travis Bickle]

North Road Interchange under construction - 1969-1970, opened as Gabalfa Flyover on 10th March 1971.

 

[Major Clanger]

Talking of themed restaurants, does anyone remember a nautical -themed cafeteria in town, perhaps in the basement of Howell’s, or Morgan’s?

I recall being taken there as a child and possibly having to go down a double-wide staircase with brass handrails to reach it. The walls were painted a turquoise -ish colour and there were lots of brass ships’ fittings around, such as portholes on the walls, lanterns and a telegraph.

I have searched around, but not succeeded in finding any information about it and am now beginning to question my sanity….

FYI: After a bit more digging, I found out that the nautical -themed cafeteria was in the basement of Howells and was called ‘The Argosy’:

Howells Argosy Cafeteria

I am still looking for photos, but at least it wasn’t a figment of my imagination.

 

[Travis Bickle]

A train crossing Windsor Road in Cogan sometime in the 1970's

 

[Travis Bickle]

 

[Major Clanger]

A postcard of Sully Hospital, 1955

That’s an unusual choice of subject matter for a postcard. I wonder what the senders would write on the back; ‘wish you were here?’.

 

[Travis Bickle]

The Hope & Anchor, Bridge street c1974

 

[Travis Bickle]

 

[the other bob wilson]

The Hope & Anchor, Bridge street c1974

I started my first job working in the South Wales Traffic Area office in Dominion s . Arcade that year and used to go for a Friday lunchtime drink with a colleague who was about ten years older than me. We'd usually just go across Queen Street to the Taff Vale, but on Christmas Eve 1974, he said we should go to his normal Christmas Eve pub because everywhere else would be packed, so I ended up in the Taff Vale for the first of only two occasions in my life with the second one being Christmas Eve 1975. I could never work out why it was just like a "normal" day in there both times when all of the pubs around it were heaving, it was a really nice pint (I used to drink Brains Dark in those days) and there was no sort of intimidating atmosphere - quite the opposite if I remember rightly.

 

[the other bob wilson]

I started my first job working in the South Wales Traffic Area office in Dominion s . Arcade that year and used to go for a Friday lunchtime drink with a colleague who was about ten years older than me. We'd usually just go across Queen Street to the Taff Vale, but on Christmas Eve 1974, he said we should go to his normal Christmas Eve pub because everywhere else would be packed, so I ended up in the Taff Vale for the first of only two occasions in my life with the second one being Christmas Eve 1975. I could never work out why it was just like a "normal" day in there both times when all of the pubs around it were heaving, it was a really nice pint (I used to drink Brains Dark in those days) and there was no sort of intimidating atmosphere - quite the opposite if I remember rightly.

Sorry, just seen my "deliberate mistake" - I meant that I went to the Hope and Anchor on Christmas Eve!

 

[Travis Bickle]

Clifton Street, 1910