History
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3.3KThe History of Rhiwbina Recreational Club
This year, 2014, sees the Centenary of Rhiwbina Recreation Club. The Club was created to provide recreational activity for the newly arrived...
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4.7KMy Life as a Cambrian Airways Air Hostess 1955
Cambrian Airways Work, play and tragedy: Rhiwbina’s Gloria Gee recalls her days as an air hostess for Cambrian Airways in 1955. I...
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3.5KThe Bruiser: Howard Norris
Cardiff. Wales. Barbarians. British Lions. These are just some of the esteemed names that have been embellished on the jerseys of Rhiwbina’s...
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3.1KCry The Beloved Country: My First Day at Grammar School in 1948
A story based on my first day at grammar school in 1948 By Peter Davies You could tell I was worried...
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12.3KCardiff’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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4.6KThe 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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2.8KAll 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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3.7KIs 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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2.8KFrom 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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4.2KRhiwbina in the 1970s
by Dr Timothy Cross The 1970’s. What an era! Musically, it was the time of ‘Glam Rock’ – Slade, The Sweet and...
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3.1KRhiwbina 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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2.9KRhiwbina 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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2.9KCardiff 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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4.9KThe 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...
Community Business of the Year 2017
