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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. There was simply too much coal coming down the valleys from Merthyr for the wharves to cope with.

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.