Old Cardiff photos

[Travis Bickle]

Roath park c1912

 

[Travis Bickle]

High street junction 1960s

 

[Joecity]

Listening to John Nichols new book about the Blitz. Here's a map of confirmed bombs dropped on our Cardiff.

 

[Jimmytaff]

Listening to John Nichols new book about the Blitz. Here's a map of confirmed bombs dropped on our Cardiff.

Plenty more than that. Riverside and Llandaff bombed too at least

 

[Joecity]

Plenty more than that. Riverside and Llandaff bombed too at least

Yeah. It just demonstrates how they aimed for the docks an largely missed. Thats an evenings work.

 

[Jimmytaff]

Yeah. It just demonstrates how they aimed for the docks an largely missed. Thats an evenings work.

So much for German efficiency eh?

 

[Joecity]

So much for German efficiency eh?

They used to just drop em as soon as they could and fuck off sharpish like

 

[Jimmytaff]

They used to just drop em as soon as they could and fuck off sharpish like

Like a Jerry Nuggles?

 

[Travis Bickle]

They only managed two bombs on the steel works and a German company built it in the early 30s

 

[TH63]

Like a Jerry Nuggles?

View: https://youtu.be/-8Yf5B6GbYk?si=7NAecLYqrywjR0R1

 

[TDA]

Grangetown took a pasting as did the area from the university through to Cathays.

 

[Travis Bickle]

A photo of one of the turquoise experimental liveried City Of Cardiff buses. This being one of the last batch of rear loaders. This Guy Arab V was seen here ascending Penylan Hill.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Construction of Penarth Docks, in the early 1860s

 

[Major Clanger]

A photo of one of the turquoise experimental liveried City Of Cardiff buses. This being one of the last batch of rear loaders. This Guy Arab V was seen here ascending Penylan Hill.

Here's another one of them, outside City Hall:

Perhaps Cardiff Buses were holding a line-up of sorts, in order to help people choose the new colour?

 

[TDA]

Here's another one of them, outside City Hall:



Perhaps Cardiff Buses were holding a line-up of sorts, in order to help people choose the new colour?

I can remember the two colours being in use. I don't know why it was deemed necessary to change from the very smart maroon and cream, but the blue would have been preferable to the dreadful orange.

 

[Travis Bickle]

I think it was a choice between orange and turquoise, I think it was 1972

 

[Arfur Ap Llewellyn Europe]

Queen street, the first electric tram May 1st 1902

I'll keep saying it...

Electric public transport ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE bast years ago

 

[Travis Bickle]

Listening to John Nichols new book about the Blitz. Here's a map of confirmed bombs dropped on our Cardiff.

I think this map might be of bombs fallen on one night

 

[Travis Bickle]

Brownhills Garage, just off North rd and opposite Maindy Stadium c1953 and 2022.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Penylan rd Roath, c1895 and 2026.The Claude Hotel can be seen in both images.