Old Cardiff photos

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The Moulders Arms, Union st, now gone. The street was off Bridge st and was sandwiched between Frederick st and Charles st, it wasn’t joined to Queen st but there was a dividing lane between Frederick st and Charles st at the Queen st end.

 

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Workers busy knocking down a building on Cardiff's Queen Street in April 1960.
- Western Mail Archive

 

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St. Marks Church , Gabalfa 1968. Before the Flyover

 

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Reg Braddick‘s bike shop Broadway 1960’s

 

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A Sinclair C5 is dwarfed by a Cardiff Bus on a busy St Mary Street, 1985

 

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Cigarette card The Reign of King George V - opening of the National museum of Wales 1927

 

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Cigarette card The Reign of King George V - opening of the National museum of Wales 1927

It's considered the most famous event of 1927 in Cardiff

 

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It's considered the most famous event of 1927 in Cardiff

Royalty involved

 

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January 1965, and BBC Wales' new headquarters in Llandaff is nearly complete

 

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January 1965, and BBC Wales' new headquarters in Llandaff is nearly complete

And now they're knocking it down to put a housing estate in its place because if there's one thing Llandaff needs is more people driving around in it.

 

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An early 1900's colour tinted postcard of Cardiff viewed from the Clock Tower of Cardiff Castle.

 

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Cambrian airways plane at Rhoose airport

 

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Canton High school, Market Road 1905

 

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The old building, top of Bute st, canal end which was once Nethercott‘s cafe/shop back in the 1960’s

 

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Work continues on a housing project in Cardiff 1954, possibly Llanrumney, top looks like Rumney hill. Bert Hardy

 

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Metal st Adamsdown and St Germans Church in c1890 and a similar view recently

 

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Queen st c1973

 

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A view up Heol Trelai from Caerau lane early 1950’s and more recently

 

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Famous Singing cowboy Gene Autry has a police escort to the Capitol Theatre on his arrival in 1939