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Grandparents
My Grandparents William Garside and Evelyn Bowden were married on 29th February 1896 in Cardiff and Grandad lived in Roath prior to his marriage. I imagine they may have also stood in this spot when courting, looking quite similar.
DAVID MORGAN
The David Morgan Dept store left of picture was one of the few privately owned Dept Stores in the U.K. This store sadly closed down in 2006 and is now being refurbished and made into apartments and smaller shops.
A memory of Cardiff contributed by michael tucker
working life
I like this photograph because it
reminds me of when I used to travel
in to Cardiff by train from Barry where
I lived.
I worked in the National Provincial
Bank in St.Mary Street. I had some
lovely friends and times
A memory of Cardiff contributed by wendy john
Grandmother's home
I think my grandmother grew up in Rose Cottage. I hope to learn more about the area and one day visit. She told such beautiful stories about this town.
Any info? womanwiththeheadofroses@hotmail.com
Extracts From Radyr & South Glamorgan books
The photographer has certainly
attracted a sizeable group of curious
onlookers in this scene dominated
by James Howell’s store (right). The
draper’s original Cardiff premises
opened in the Hayes in 1865
employing a mere five assistants.
Relocating to St Mary Street in
1867 and the shrewd acquisition
of adjoining premises allowed
the frontage that we see here,
constructed in 1879. Only a year
prior to our photograph the store
expanded ‘inwardly’ to Trinity Street.
The farmer’s son from Pembrokeshire
was on course to create Wales’
premier department store.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
Admired by a lady sitting in the area later to be
occupied by the National Museum stands the City Hall,
a year after the bestowal of Cardiff’s city status. The
move to locate the then Town Hall out of the ‘old town’
was considered bold and proved contentious. Objectors
to the audacious scheme suggested alternative sites in
the Arms Park and Temperance Town.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
Today’s motorists can but marvel at the wide expanse of road on offer here. The formal layout of roads around the Civic
Centre was initiated in 1903 some five years after completion of the purchase of Bute’s parkland. Original plans for one
grand avenue leading from Queen Street to City Hall proved fruitless - a development partially hindered by the Bute
retention of the adjacent Greyfriars site.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
The ‘new’ University
College building which
opened in October
1909 was the fruition
of ten years’ concerted
fundraising aided
by the Corporation’s
gift of five acres of
building land. Its
unusually elongated
frontage, allegedly
imposed by height
restrictions, proved
controversial. Not so
its library - the Caroe-
designed Turner-built
amenity was described
as ‘a dream in
architecture’ during its
opening proceedings.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
Even before the end of the First World War calls had been made to erect a monument to
honour Wales’ dead. After years of fundraising initiated by the ‘Western Mail’ newspaper a war
memorial was finally constructed in Cathays Park’s Queen Alexandra Gardens. The Memorial
was officially dedicated by the Bishop of Wales on 12 June 1928.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".