Old Cardiff photos

[Travis Bickle]

Interesting looking bus on Wood street,possibly late 50s or early 60’s

 

[Travis Bickle]

High street c1997

 

[TDA]

Interesting looking bus on Wood street,possibly late 50s or early 60’s

Silver Star Motor Services - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Major Clanger]

My dad’s office was on the industrial estate behind kwikfit, and he took me there on the weekend so I could watch the demolition. I’ve got a b&w photo somewhere of the explosion that I’ll dig out someday

Here are some photos of the Roath Power Station cooling towers coming down, circa 1972:

 

[Major Clanger]

Silver Star Motor Services - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Here are a few more tidbits:


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[Travis Bickle]

Queen street, the first electric tram May 1st 1902

 

[Travis Bickle]

Castle Coch, the medieval castle was heavily damaged in the 14th Century, possibly in the Llewellyn Bren uprising of 1316 or the Despenser War of 1321 and was subsequently abandoned after

 

[Travis Bickle]

On 13th May 1897 radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi made history by transmitting a radio signal from Flat Holm to Lavernock Point in the Vale of Glamorgan.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Buses turning into Duke street,from Kingsway,with Evan Roberts behind,late 1970s

 

[Travis Bickle]

Newport rd, c1984 and 2026

 

[kernel]

Newport rd, c1984 and 2026

One of the old big box stores a few doors up from there now a Sketchers shoe shop. It's massive, I had no idea Sketchers has such a huge range of shoes on sale

 

[Popeye]

One of the old big box stores a few doors up from there now a Sketchers shoe shop. It's massive, I had no idea Sketchers has such a huge range of shoes on sale

Lecter spends whole weekends in there.

I remember MFI and Superbowl next door. Superbowl now just a big storage facility.

 

[Jimmytaff]

Lecter spends whole weekends in there.

I remember MFI and Superbowl next door. Superbowl now just a big storage facility.

They sell Crocs?

 

[TH63]

One of the old big box stores a few doors up from there now a Sketchers shoe shop. It's massive, I had no idea Sketchers has such a huge range of shoes on sale

They sell these bad boys too

 

[kernel]

They sell these bad boys too

Do they help you hyper burst like a pro?

 

[Jimmytaff]

They sell these bad boys too

They look awful. They go nicely with chequered trousers?

 

[TH63]

Do they help you hyper burst like a pro?

Not actually worn them yet. They’re my back up pair

 

[TH63]

They look awful. They go nicely with chequered trousers?

Don’t wear chequered trousers. Plain black or khaki me.

 

[Eat Y'self Fitter]

Not actually worn them yet. They’re my back up pair

In case you get a hole in one?

 

[TH63]

In case you get a hole in one?