Category Archives: History

McCormack’s Reaping Machine

There’s a newspaper article dated August 1852, which describes ‘the-start-of-the-end’ for the tiny farms around [...]

The Bridge of Whitchurch

How a painting from 1843 helped depict scenes of Whitchurch in times gone by. Awen’s [...]

Whitchurch and Llandaff: A Living History

The villages of Whitchurch, Llandaff, and Llandaff North are crammed with history, both ancient and [...]

Robin Goch: The incredible story of Charles Horace Watkins and his Whitchurch plane

Yet another story of a local man with an incredible story! Has anyone heard of [...]

Road Trip USA

In 1952, Brian Rowlands and a friend spent two weeks travelling across the USA. They [...]

Rhiwbina in the 1970s

by Dr Timothy Cross  The 1970’s. What an era! Musically, it was the time of [...]

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Atlas Express remembered

Atlas Express was once a familiar sight in and around Whitchurch and Llandaff. Steve Nicholas [...]

Greenhill, Rhiwbina

By Nigel Lewis A hundred and eighty years ago, at the time of the Tithe [...]

Deri Mill

By Nigel Lewis In the last issue of Rhiwbina Living, we looked at Beulah Corner [...]

Tennis in Whitchurch

By Nigel Lewis I was looking at some old photographs recently of immaculately-dressed Edwardian Whitchurch [...]

C’est La Vie

David Judd’s life was changed the day he met his French exchange student at Cardiff [...]

Photo gallery: Daffodil planting in the 1990s

Rhiwbina’s Garden Village is often full of daffodils at this time of year. Many of [...]

The French Connection

Cardiff celebrates 60 years of its twinning with the French city of Nantes this year. [...]

Village Farm

Merthyr Road, in the heart of Whitchurch, is now a bustling high street. But it [...]