Category Archives: History

The History of Rhiwbina Recreational Club

This year, 2014, sees the Centenary of Rhiwbina Recreation Club. The Club was created to [...]

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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The Bruiser: Howard Norris

Cardiff. Wales. Barbarians. British Lions. These are just some of the esteemed names that have [...]

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 [...]

Cardiff’s Secret Bunkers

Take a look around you. We’re all familiar with the landscape around us. Or are [...]

The Mathew Family of Cardiff

Lying silently in the north aisle of Llandaff Cathedral is Sir David Mathew. The effigy [...]

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All Aboard a Vintage Cardiff Bus

Cardiff Bus By Berwyn Prys Jones “This is how Mummy and Daddy used to go [...]

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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From Llandaff to Daleks: Terry Nation

Terry Nation was born in 1930 in Llandaff to Gilbert and Susan Nation. Terry’s father, [...]

Rhiwbina Centenary: Growing Up in Rhiwbina in the 1930s

by Alan Gray My father had joined the GPO (the old name for British Telecom) [...]

Rhiwbina Centenary: The Air Raid on Wenallt Road, 1943

  By John Lloyd Thomas air raid On the 18th May 1943, I was 8 [...]

Cardiff Railways: What became of Rhyd y Walla Halt?

by Gareth Neale cardiff railways That was the original name proposed by the Cardiff Railway [...]

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 [...]

The Fairytale Castle: Castell Coch – A History

Castell Coch (the Red Castle) sits proudly on the side of a hill overlooking North [...]