Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Cardiff, South Glamorgan
- St Mellons, South Glamorgan
- Llandaff, South Glamorgan
- Rumney, South Glamorgan
- Radyr, South Glamorgan
- Rhiwbina, South Glamorgan
- Tongwynlais, South Glamorgan
- St Fagans, South Glamorgan
- Morganstown, South Glamorgan
- Whitchurch, South Glamorgan
- Walton Cardiff, Gloucestershire
- Caerau, South Glamorgan
- Ely, South Glamorgan
- Llanishen, South Glamorgan
- Fairwater, South Glamorgan
- Riverside, South Glamorgan
- Mynachdy, South Glamorgan
- Heath, South Glamorgan
- Trowbridge, South Glamorgan
- Splott, South Glamorgan (near Cardiff)
- Llanedeyrn, South Glamorgan (near Cardiff)
- Llanedeyrn, South Glamorgan (near Cardiff)
- Birchgrove, South Glamorgan
- Coryton, South Glamorgan
- Grangetown, South Glamorgan
- Thornhill, South Glamorgan
- Newton, South Glamorgan
- Butetown, South Glamorgan
- Cathays, South Glamorgan
- Capel Llanilltern, South Glamorgan
- Cyncoed, South Glamorgan
- Cyntwell, South Glamorgan
- Pontcanna, South Glamorgan
- Gabalfa, South Glamorgan
- Creigiau, South Glamorgan
- Penarth Moors, South Glamorgan
Photos
429 photos found. Showing results 61 to 80.
Maps
285 maps found.
Books
3 books found. Showing results 73 to 3.
Memories
110 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Growing Up In Aberkenfig
Growing up and the family - Part 1 My grandfather William Morgan Cockram (son of Lewis Cockram) and grandmother (Mary Cockram) (granny and grandpa Cockram) took over the ironmongers after the death of John Richards. ...Read more
A memory of Aberkenfig by
Tom Lizzie Cook
1948 - onwards. My Mother and her two cousins were brought up by their Aunt and Uncle as above and I spent all my childhood holidays with them. Great Aunt Liz was well known for her teas for visitors and ramblers from CHA Porlock. ...Read more
A memory of Culbone in 1948 by
Train Rides To Cymmer.
For many years I enjoyed playing in Caerau park. Yet my best memories are of our train rides to Cymmer. When steam trains were the normal means of transport, with our pocket money on a Saturday, sometimes we would buy a return ...Read more
A memory of Caerau in 1963 by
The Cameo Cinema Bargoed
I grew up in the Bargoed area, in Cardiff Road to be precise! It was Gladestone Villa which is now known as the Parc Hotel or Reds. My parents were divorced and my mam and I lived with my grandparents there. Every Saturday ...Read more
A memory of Bargoed in 1977 by
Sweethearts
My late wife and I spent lovely times in Aberdare Park. We both lived in Aberaman, me in the Oaklands Lodge, Cardiff Road, and Margaret in Cynon Street. Every Sunday we would walk up to the park and savour the beauty of the flowers and trees. These were lovely times I will remember all my life.
A memory of Aberdare in 1960 by
Machen Forge Blackweir Cardiff
My grandmother ran a pub called the Machen Forge in Blackweir and my mother has told me about when she was a young girl growing up there. The canel ran along the side of the pub. I would love to know if there are any photos of it.
A memory of Blackweir in 1920 by
Neath William Phillips Family
I live in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. My relative, William Phillips was born in Neath and lived at 14 Company Street, Llantwit Fardre when married. He was a collier. He married 6/1875 Rachel Thomas (b.18/7/1852 ...Read more
A memory of Neath in 1880 by
Kion
I lived in 50 Cwmnyscoy with my grandparents at the early part of the war years. I went to Blaendare Road School with my sister, Pamela, who was three years older. We had come from Cardiff and as we lived near the aerodrome we had nightly ...Read more
A memory of Cwmynyscoy in 1941 by
Posh Building, Poor Times
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 ...Read more
A memory of Cardiff in 1910 by
The Graig Secondary Modern Bassaleg
I went to the Graig School during the sixties. It was a great school and a great location. I lived in St.Mellons near Cardiff, but we all went to Bassaleg as St.Mellons was in the old county of Monmouthshire. ...Read more
A memory of Bassaleg in 1961 by
Captions
89 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.
The Royal Iris worked the Mersey and Liverpool Bay waters until the 1990s, when she went to Cardiff and was decommissioned.
Colliery owners, dissatisfied with increased costs at Cardiff, decided to open a dock at Barry, and built it between the mainland and Barry Island.
The growth of Cardiff's docks was to some extent a symptom of their own success.
As retailers of pianos, organs and gramophones they faced stiff competition from their rivals Thompson & Shackell whose two Cardiff branches underpinned their dominance of the South Wales
The town was shortlisted for the capital of Wales in the 1950s, which seems rich when it is compared with Cardiff, but may have something to do with its central location and the fast that Owain Glyndwr
There is no known record of the history or appearance of this castle, which is situated eight miles south-west of Cardiff.
Paddle steamers, such as the 'Success' in the foreground, were developed especially for Cardiff; they sat high in the water, and could work in tidal estuaries where the water level became very low.
By the close of the century, the town had attracted many of the wealthiest industrialists and shipping magnates intent on escaping an overcrowded Cardiff.
The Co-op dominated this street: drapery and millinery were at number 9 Cardiff Street, and the main part with food, ironmongery, and footwear was at numbers 3, 4 and 5.
Built originally as part of Cardiff's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain, time was eventually to catch up with the pavilion.
The draper's original Cardiff premises opened in the Hayes in 1865 employing a mere five assistants.
Of the two previous castles on the site, the first was a short-lived motte and bailey erected when the Normans pushed into the Cardiff area.
With its tower 300ft above sea level, it is probably the town's only building clearly recognisable from neighbouring Cardiff.
Much of the local authority housing was pretty cheerless in design, but it satisfied a great demand in the decades following the Second World War, due both to war damage and slum clearance in nearby Cardiff
Yet the family who had done so much to establish Cardiff,had driven the South Wales coal industry, had built the gothic fancy Castell Coch, and boasted an estate of 22,000 acres passed on a mere £437 as
If the date of the picture is correct, 1908 is quite late for a paddle-tug to be serving at other than a major coal port such as Cardiff, Sunderland or Seaham.
Newport has become a busy sister city to Cardiff, with some good examples of Victorian architecture.
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