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Creigiau maps
Historic maps of Creigiau and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Creigiau maps
Creigiau photos
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Groesfaen| Miskin| Llantrisant| Talbot Green| St Fagans| Pontyclun| Radyr| Church Village| Taffs Well| Tongwynlais| St Nicholas| Rhiwbina| Llandaff| Pontypridd| Abertridwr| Caerphilly| Wenvoe| Aberthin| Tonyrefail| Cardiff| Cowbridge| Llanbradach| Llanblethian| Bedwas| Llandough| Penarth
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Parc-Y-Felin Farm, St Fagans
My grandparents and great-uncle and aunt lived and worked at Parc-y-Felin farm in the 1930s. My mother and her sister went St Fagans school. Although the farm was demolished in the early 1960s the farm cottage still survives where my great-uncle used to live. It was a milk producing farm, the dairy was at the rear of the farm which I think was powered by a water wheel, the water was supplied by the River Ely by a water channel which my mother called the "race".
Groeswen Village
Although I was born in Merthyr Tydfil our family lived in Brynllwyfan Groeswen, we were known locally as Ball Top House. I remember the freedom my older brother Mervyn and I had in the village and surounding area. My dad Percy (Tyke) worked on the railways and Mam (Nora) worked in the Hendre school canteen. My sister Pat was the youngest of us. Our uncle and aunte (Moses and Margaret) also lived in Groeswen with my cousins, Iori, Doug,Glennis,Gwyn (squeeky) Reg, Brian and Marilyn (Lalin). We all attended Hendre junior school until we were 11. My brother then went to school in Caerphilly and my sister went to a girls school in Caerphilly and I went to school in Senghenydd. There were times we would help the local farmers Handel and Mervyn Evans collect the hay in the hot summer days. I remember seing my first calf born it was fantastic! We had a great community spirit in the village, we had a carnival once a year, we would all... Read more
The Laurels
The front room of The Laurels used to be used as the pay office for the estate workers when they collected their weekly pay. The Estate Bailiff lived there, which is near to the Estate Yard, which really was the nerve centre of the Wenvoe Estate building operation. At the time the estate was owned by Mrs Laura Jenner, who died in 1935.
Mabel Annie Jones
My grandmother was born in Yackla, Wenvoe (the cottages near the Whitehall Quarry) in 19th January 1888 and was the daughter of Mary Morgan and George Jones and baptised on the 19th September 1888 at St. Mary's Church Wenvoe.
Sometime around 1891, Annie Mabel was found living with her mother at the Whimms which overlooked Cardiff known later as Wimms Houses. It was a terrace of five houses. At the time of the 1891 census her father was not at home and Mary her mother was living on her own means.
St Fagans
I was so pleased to find these photos of the gardens, as there don't seem to be very many around.
My grandfather Trevor Dimond was the head gardener there. He started just after the war and was there for 30 years and boy, did he and his men work hard, starting at 6.00am and finishing at 10.00pm to maintain the standards.
I lived with him and my grandmother in The Gardens House, a large house tucked away in the museum, now unfortunately offices, and my playground as a child was the gardens, it couldn't have been more magical.
I am so proud of the work he put into the gardens and often visit and look back. I remember him nurturing the seedlings to plant on when the season was right, pruning the red and black vines of the grapes in the greenhouses that visitors used to buy, and the smell of the flowers on summer evenings.
I really wish there was there was more of his work shown in the... Read more
Grandparents
My Grandparents William Garside and Evelyn Bowden were married on 29th February 1896 in Cardiff and Grandad lived in Roath prior to his marriage. I imagine they may have also stood in this spot when courting, looking quite similar.
Working Life
I like this photograph because it
reminds me of when I used to travel
in to Cardiff by train from Barry where
I lived.
I worked in the National Provincial
Bank in St.Mary Street. I had some
lovely friends and times
