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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
A memory of Cardiff contributed by wendy john
Childhood
Was delighted when I saw this picture of St Augustines. I was christened in 1950 at this church. Also confirmed here, belonged to Church Girl Guides and Youth Club. Vicar was Reverend Smith. Have very fond memories of this church.
A memory of Rumney contributed by Sharne Smith
The Ford family....
This is a picture of St. Augustine's Church, Rumney. We were married there on August 5th 1957. It is also the resting place of my husband's Mother, Father and Sister. All are buried in the Churchyard.
We moved to Canada in 1965.
A memory of Rumney contributed by beryl ford
On the Street where I lived
The photo shows the bottom of Highwalls Avenue, I lived half way up round the corner. It was a steep climb when i was litlle but got easier as I grew. I was born in this road and had such a happy time.
A memory of Dinas Powys contributed by Clive Turner
Extracts From Rhiwbina & South Glamorgan books
The photographer has certainly
attracted a sizeable group of curious
onlookers in this scene dominated
by James Howell’s store (right). The
draper’s original Cardiff premises
opened in the Hayes in 1865
employing a mere five assistants.
Relocating to St Mary Street in
1867 and the shrewd acquisition
of adjoining premises allowed
the frontage that we see here,
constructed in 1879. Only a year
prior to our photograph the store
expanded ‘inwardly’ to Trinity Street.
The farmer’s son from Pembrokeshire
was on course to create Wales’
premier department store.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
Admired by a lady sitting in the area later to be
occupied by the National Museum stands the City Hall,
a year after the bestowal of Cardiff’s city status. The
move to locate the then Town Hall out of the ‘old town’
was considered bold and proved contentious. Objectors
to the audacious scheme suggested alternative sites in
the Arms Park and Temperance Town.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
Today’s motorists can but marvel at the wide expanse of road on offer here. The formal layout of roads around the Civic
Centre was initiated in 1903 some five years after completion of the purchase of Bute’s parkland. Original plans for one
grand avenue leading from Queen Street to City Hall proved fruitless - a development partially hindered by the Bute
retention of the adjacent Greyfriars site.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
The ‘new’ University
College building which
opened in October
1909 was the fruition
of ten years’ concerted
fundraising aided
by the Corporation’s
gift of five acres of
building land. Its
unusually elongated
frontage, allegedly
imposed by height
restrictions, proved
controversial. Not so
its library - the Caroe-
designed Turner-built
amenity was described
as ‘a dream in
architecture’ during its
opening proceedings.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
Even before the end of the First World War calls had been made to erect a monument to
honour Wales’ dead. After years of fundraising initiated by the ‘Western Mail’ newspaper a war
memorial was finally constructed in Cathays Park’s Queen Alexandra Gardens. The Memorial
was officially dedicated by the Bishop of Wales on 12 June 1928.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".