Off-Topic Old Cardiff photos

[Travis Bickle]

St Mary Street and the Marquess of Bute statue at St Mary Street near Saunders Road in the 1890's.

 

[Travis Bickle]

An undated image of Hansom Cabs at Wood Street.

 

[Travis Bickle]

 

[TH63]

My grandfather was a docker, from Newport.
He used to walk, from Newport, to Roath Park, play baseball in front of huge crowds like this, albeit earlier than the 50’s, then walk home again.
He got selected to play for Wales, before being forced to quit through injury.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Views of County Hall, c1996

 

[Travis Bickle]

Glamorgan canal and swing Bridge 1950s

 

[Travis Bickle]

Sports Day at Maindy Barracks field Whitchurch Road during the First World War.

 

[Travis Bickle]

An old photo showing the Glamorganshire Canal and Lock gates at Llandaff North near Cardiff. ( It took 4 years to build the Glamorganshire Canal. Starting in 1790, with an army of navigators with picks and shovels. The 25-mile-long canal had 50 locks and dropped 165m (about 500 feet) from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff.)

 

[Travis Bickle]

 

[Travis Bickle]

Late 60’s

 

[stantys tattoos]

My grandfather was a docker, from Newport.
He used to walk, from Newport, to Roath Park, play baseball in front of huge crowds like this, albeit earlier than the 50’s, then walk home again.
He got selected to play for Wales, before being forced to quit through injury.

was that bobby baseball bollocks?

 

[Travis Bickle]

Crossways Service Station and Garage, now a Tesco Extra Store. Cowbridge Road West, in Ely

 

[Travis Bickle]

 

[Major Clanger]

Inside the old Post Office on Westgate Street, around 1971:

Love the old -style weighing scales on the counters, plus centre table with blotter pads, where you could write postal orders, etc.

 

[Travis Bickle]

Inside the old Post Office on Westgate Street, around 1971:



Love the old -style weighing scales on the counters, plus centre table with blotter pads, where you could write postal orders, etc.

They had a phone book for virtually every town in the UK in there, the telegram boys and their motorbikes were based in the underground car park

 

[Travis Bickle]

A very early photo showing Donkeys, Boats, People. 1904. Whitmore Bay, Barry Island

 

[Travis Bickle]

Hangman’s, or Death Junction (junction of Albany/City/Richmond/Crwys rd and Mackintosh Place)

 

[Melvin Udal]

They had a phone book for virtually every town in the UK in there, the telegram boys and their motorbikes were based in the underground car park

Telegram boys….