Category Archives: History
My Life as a Cambrian Airways Air Hostess 1955
Cambrian Airways Work, play and tragedy: Rhiwbina’s Gloria Gee recalls her days as an air [...]
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Jan
The Bruiser: Howard Norris
Cardiff. Wales. Barbarians. British Lions. These are just some of the esteemed names that have [...]
Jan
Cry 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 [...]
Jan
Cardiff’s Secret Bunkers
Take a look around you. We’re all familiar with the landscape around us. Or are [...]
Nov
The Mathew Family of Cardiff
Lying silently in the north aisle of Llandaff Cathedral is Sir David Mathew. The effigy [...]
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Oct
All Aboard a Vintage Cardiff Bus
Cardiff Bus By Berwyn Prys Jones “This is how Mummy and Daddy used to go [...]
Sep
Is Joseph of Arimathea buried in Bute Park?
Joseph of Arimathea Cardiff could soon become a worldwide place of pilgrimage if details in [...]
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Aug
From Llandaff to Daleks: Terry Nation
Terry Nation was born in 1930 in Llandaff to Gilbert and Susan Nation. Terry’s father, [...]
Jul
Rhiwbina Centenary: Growing Up in Rhiwbina in the 1930s
by Alan Gray My father had joined the GPO (the old name for British Telecom) [...]
Mar
Rhiwbina Centenary: The Air Raid on Wenallt Road, 1943
By John Lloyd Thomas air raid On the 18th May 1943, I was 8 [...]
Mar
Cardiff Railways: What became of Rhyd y Walla Halt?
by Gareth Neale cardiff railways That was the original name proposed by the Cardiff Railway [...]
Jan
The History of Rhiwbina’s Garden Village
Rhiwbina’s Garden Village movement began in the 1890s in response to the industrial revolution’s side-effects [...]
Dec
The Fairytale Castle: Castell Coch – A History
Castell Coch (the Red Castle) sits proudly on the side of a hill overlooking North [...]
Dec
Battle of the Butchers: The Bloody Brook
By Gareth Neale the bloody brook The Battle of Hastings in 1066 started the Norman [...]
Sep