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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

By the late 1960s the RDSC had replaced their paddlers with three motor ferries: the 'Conway Castle', the 'Seymour Castle', and the 'Cardiff Castle', the latter skippered by Bill Rehberg,

With the advent of a regular bus service in the 1920s, this popular local became a favourite stopping-off point between Cardiff and Barry.

Apart from an in-house pub, temporary exhibitions are its main occupants with the Cardiff Visitor Centre perhaps finding a fitting and permanent home.

Originally a mere sub-branch of Cardiff's Bute Street, the growing stature of the town is evidenced by the bank's gaining of both 'full' status (c1886) and Bute Street's erstwhile manager, Mr H W Rice!

The old parish church of St Tydfil was restored and re-built in the 1890s; its graveyard was greatly reduced in 1902 to construct the road to Cardiff.

Described as 'the friend of the children of Cardiff' in his touching 'Western Mail' obituary, the Norwegian- born Mr Stephenson superintended bathing for 31 years.

From here there was an all-year-round steamer service to Cardiff and Newport and summer excursions.

Shipments of stone to Cardiff helped satisfy demand for paving stones in the rapidly expanding town.

This old cockpit, built in the 17th century, survives in the Museum of Welsh Life at St Fagan's near Cardiff - the cockpit was moved there and re-constructed in 1970.

When the picture was taken, Maindy was the premier athletics track in Cardiff, and used by clubs and schools from all over the Vale of Glamorgan.

With the development of St Mellons, Trowbridge and most recently Pontprennau, Cardiff and Newport move geographically closer.

It sits majestically aside the Barry to Cardiff road, facing Barry.

of abandoned gun emplacements, storage lockers and searchlights were reminders of how heavily defended this stretch of coastline was – it had been vital to protect the Severn Estuary and the ports of Cardiff

With its distinctive BO number plate we know that the car on the right was registered in Cardiff.

Cardiff institutions such as the Indoor Market and the Louis Restaurant occupy their familiar sites.

The 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

Situated eight miles south-west of Cardiff, Barry was the last of the great Welsh coal ports to be developed.

Penarth was, until quite recently, merely the marine residence and bathing resort of the well-to-do inhabitants of Cardiff; now, however, it bids fair to become of far more than local importance.

This fine example of Victorian architecture was built in 1863, and brought a flush of style and prestige to Cardiff.

As larger harbours were built, both Swanbridge and Sully ceased to be used as ports, but with the advent of cheap rail travel they became holiday beaches for day trippers from Cardiff and the surrounding

It was built by E J Smith of Cardiff in a vaguely eastern Art Deco style, and the building material was (the then) ultra modern ferro-concrete.

Balconies afford superb views across the lake for some of Cardiff's wealthiest inhabitants.

The annual staging of the prestigious 'Cardiff Singer of the World' contest has bestowed an international profile.