Take a look around you. We’re all familiar with the landscape around us. Or are we? Patric Morgan goes underground to discover...
Mathew Family of Cardiff Lying silently in the north aisle of Llandaff Cathedral is Sir David Mathew. The effigy of him that...
Cardiff Bus By Berwyn Prys Jones “This is how Mummy and Daddy used to go to school, darling.”, “When did they stop...
Joseph of Arimathea Cardiff could soon become a worldwide place of pilgrimage if details in a newly-published book are proved true. It...
Terry Nation was born in 1930 in Llandaff to Gilbert and Susan Nation. Terry’s father, known to everyone as Bert, trained as...
by Dr Timothy Cross rhiwbina The 1970’s. What an era! Musically, it was the time of ‘Glam Rock’ – Slade, The Sweet...
by Alan Gray My father had joined the GPO (the old name for British Telecom) as in the prelude to World War...
By John Lloyd Thomas air raid On the 18th May 1943, I was 8 years old and my sister Shirley was...
by Gareth Neale cardiff railways That was the original name proposed by the Cardiff Railway Company for the Halt they were going...
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...
Castell Coch (the Red Castle) sits proudly on the side of a hill overlooking North Cardiff and the valley that carries the...
By Gareth Neale the bloody brook The Battle of Hastings in 1066 started the Norman Conquest but the conquest of the part...
It was once the landmark of Rhiwbina. For decades, it entertained the people of North Cardiff and the valleys. Its name still...
by Desmond Marley I write regarding the article by Les Gibbon entitled ‘More Memories of Melingriffith’, as published in a previous edition...