Off-Topic Old Cardiff photos

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A chaotic looking Queen st c1900

 

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Yeah, before that it was Merrets bakery I think

Wonderloaf Tav.

 

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Wonderloaf Tav.

Where was Merrets then it was definitely on Meas y coed rd

 

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Where was Merrets then it was definitely on Meas y coed rd

Dont know mate. Maybe it was Merrets after Wonderloaf and before or after Memory Lane but defo Wonderloaf late 60s and early 70s.

Edit: quick search threw up that it all became Allied Bakeries

 

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Merrets left Newport rd in the late 60’s/early 70’s for Maes y coed my father in law worked there

 

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The Bridge Inn

Had some crazy afternoons in that place

 

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Wonderloaf were also at Maindy Lane apparently... Cakes at Maes y Coed Rd, Bread at Maindy

Wondercake (??) at Maes y Coed

 

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Llandaff north is just a bit of Gabalfa isn't it?

Depends if your buying or selling
I'm in Ely, but when we sell it's the vale

 

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Merrets left Newport rd in the late 60’s/early 70’s for Maes y coed my father in law worked there

Seems this guy has the low-down on who was where and the changes. Seems they were next door to eachother.

Re: South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards.
by lyndon56 » Thu Oct 27, 2016 9:38 pm

hi guys, re; memory lane cakes, I was a former employee of wonderloaf maindy lane Cardiff, sister company was wonder cakes maes y coed road heath Cardiff , the memory lane cakes were originally wonder cakes in Cardiff , the van livery was originally the same as wonderloaf , only wonderloaf was blue white and orange , and wonder cakes were red and a sort of creamy white colour, spillers owned both, then spillers changed the bread division to homepride bakeries, colour brown with a bakers picture on the side with bread all around him, same time spillers changed the cake division to memory lane cakes, then the bread division merged wonderloaf with coop bakeries and lyons bakeries ,then they changed the colours back to blue white and orange , then they called the company spillers French baking , then they went out of business , and sold the cake division to Finsbury foods, merrett's became sunblest and is next door to memory lane cakes , in maes y coed road Cardiff ,they now are known as kingsmill bakery's , mothers pride bought all the wonderloaf vehicles from our bakery,they then bought the old coop bakery in taffs well near Cardiff ,that bakery and my old bakery maindy in Cardiff are knocked down now ,they are student and housing sites now, my old bakery was a cracking big bakery great place to work, I started as a van boy, then a loader, then a slicer , and I worked as an oven plant hand finished up as a plant cleaner, most vehicles were fg's some bedfords , bakery served retail and wholesale, wish I had a picture of maindy lane Cardiff bakery and vans , brilliant place to work,

 

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Seems this guy has the low-down on who was where and the changes. Seems they were next door to eachother.

Re: South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards.
by lyndon56 » Thu Oct 27, 2016 9:38 pm

hi guys, re; memory lane cakes, I was a former employee of wonderloaf maindy lane Cardiff, sister company was wonder cakes maes y coed road heath Cardiff , the memory lane cakes were originally wonder cakes in Cardiff , the van livery was originally the same as wonderloaf , only wonderloaf was blue white and orange , and wonder cakes were red and a sort of creamy white colour, spillers owned both, then spillers changed the bread division to homepride bakeries, colour brown with a bakers picture on the side with bread all around him, same time spillers changed the cake division to memory lane cakes, then the bread division merged wonderloaf with coop bakeries and lyons bakeries ,then they changed the colours back to blue white and orange , then they called the company spillers French baking , then they went out of business , and sold the cake division to Finsbury foods, merrett's became sunblest and is next door to memory lane cakes , in maes y coed road Cardiff ,they now are known as kingsmill bakery's , mothers pride bought all the wonderloaf vehicles from our bakery,they then bought the old coop bakery in taffs well near Cardiff ,that bakery and my old bakery maindy in Cardiff are knocked down now ,they are student and housing sites now, my old bakery was a cracking big bakery great place to work, I started as a van boy, then a loader, then a slicer , and I worked as an oven plant hand finished up as a plant cleaner, most vehicles were fg's some bedfords , bakery served retail and wholesale, wish I had a picture of maindy lane Cardiff bakery and vans , brilliant place to work,

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Looking over Butetown from the South in 1930

 

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The Grade II Listed Bonded warehouse at Atlantic wharf...then 1920 and more recently

 

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The old Ely Library at the bottom of Grand Avenue in the late 80’s

 

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High Street near the entrance to the High Street Arcade in the 1890's.

 

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Penarth, Docks 1910's

 

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The Kings Castle 1979