Cardiff, City Hall, Law Courts 1906
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Cardiff has a perfect Edwardian Civic Centre, precise in scale and scope. It was built in Portland stone around 1904, and most of the buildings put up since have been designed with an empathy for the whole. The buildings themselves enclose a large rectangle, within which wide, tree-lined avenues bisect Cathays Park.

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My mother was from Newtown in Cardiff, near the docks. It was a community of very poor Irish immigrants. My great grandmother had a job cleaning the City Hall. She would walk through Cardiff in the early morning and do her work which included polishing the steps then walk all the way back home again, a good few miles. On the way she would stop at her friend's house and her friend would make her a cup of tea, ...see more
Our great grandfather was a stone mason named William Jones. His daughter, our grandmother, told us many years ago that her father was killed in a fall while working on the construction of the City Hall. It had to be after January 1900 as he was present at Grans' wedding in Jan 1900. I have been unable to confirm the happening of this accident. Can anyone help me? I now live in Western Australia so it is ...see more