History
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11.5KCardiff’s Secret Bunkers
Take a look around you. We’re all familiar with the landscape around us. Or are we? Patric Morgan goes underground to discover...
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3.9KThe Mathew Family of Cardiff
Lying silently in the north aisle of Llandaff Cathedral is Sir David Mathew. The effigy of him that guards his tomb measures...
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2.5KAll Aboard a Vintage Cardiff Bus
Cardiff Bus By Berwyn Prys Jones “This is how Mummy and Daddy used to go to school, darling.”, “When did they stop...
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3.3KIs Joseph of Arimathea buried in Bute Park?
Joseph of Arimathea Cardiff could soon become a worldwide place of pilgrimage if details in a newly-published book are proved true. It...
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2.5KFrom 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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3.3KRhiwbina 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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2.8KRhiwbina 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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2.6KRhiwbina 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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2.6KCardiff 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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4.6KThe 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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9.9KThe 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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3.8KBattle 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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4.7KThe 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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2.8KLlandaff 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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