History
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1.4KFrom Llandaff to Daleks: Terry Nation
Terry Nation was born in 1930 in Llandaff to Gilbert and Susan Nation. Terry’s father, known to everyone as Bert, trained as...
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2.1KRhiwbina in the 1970s
by Dr Timothy Cross rhiwbina The 1970’s. What an era! Musically, it was the time of ‘Glam Rock’ – Slade, The Sweet...
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2.0KRhiwbina Centenary: Growing Up in Rhiwbina in the 1930s
by Alan Gray My father had joined the GPO (the old name for British Telecom) as in the prelude to World War...
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1.5KRhiwbina Centenary: The Air Raid on Wenallt Road, 1943
By John Lloyd Thomas air raid On the 18th May 1943, I was 8 years old and my sister Shirley was...
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1.6KCardiff Railways: What became of Rhyd y Walla Halt?
by Gareth Neale cardiff railways That was the original name proposed by the Cardiff Railway Company for the Halt they were going...
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3.2KThe History of Rhiwbina’s Garden Village
Rhiwbina’s Garden Village movement began in the 1890s in response to the industrial revolution’s side-effects of slums and poor living conditions. Its...
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5.8KThe Fairytale Castle: Castell Coch – A History
Castell Coch (the Red Castle) sits proudly on the side of a hill overlooking North Cardiff and the valley that carries the...
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2.2KBattle of the Butchers: The Bloody Brook
By Gareth Neale the bloody brook The Battle of Hastings in 1066 started the Norman Conquest but the conquest of the part...
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2.7KThe Rise and Fall of a Screen Giant: The Monico Cinema in Rhiwbina
It was once the landmark of Rhiwbina. For decades, it entertained the people of North Cardiff and the valleys. Its name still...
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1.7KLlandaff North in the 1930s: My Memories
by Desmond Marley I write regarding the article by Les Gibbon entitled ‘More Memories of Melingriffith’, as published in a previous edition...
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1.5KMemories of a Melingriffith Boy by Ken Hopkins
Ken Hopkins was born at Forest Farm, Whitchurch in 1930. My early memories as a four year old are of our two...
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1.5KMelingriffith Water Pump Reinstalled
by Stephanie Wilkins (Chair, Friends of Melingriffith Water Pump) Following a partial restoration by volunteers from the Oxford House Archaeological Society (Risca)...
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1.2KFantastic Roald Dahl: Llandaff’s Greatest Son
Arguably Llandaff’s greatest son, Roald Dahl is still considered one of the world’s finest authors. Twenty years after his death this November,...
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1.1KOut and About: Caerphilly
Caerphilly’s history goes back nearly 250,000 years when what we know as Neanderthals scoured the plains for food and shelter. Leaving little...
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