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Map of South Glamorgan
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Llancarfan photos (none available)
We have no photos of Llancarfan,although these nearby locations do:Llancarfan books (5 available)
Around Penarth Photographic Memories
Paperback
Around Penarth Photographic Memories
Hardback
Did You Know? Cardiff - A Miscellany
Hardback
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Mustow's cafe.
I lived with my family in St Athan village from the time of my first birthday in 1946 to my marriage in 1970. Mt wife and I were married at the church shown in the photograph. The church is dedicated to an Irish saint by the name of Tathan. The village was once known as Llandathan, then Saint Tathen and finally St Athan(s). At this church I was a choirboy, Sunday School teacher and bellringer too. There are six bells in the tower cast by Warners.
Mustows' Cafe figures prominently and this shop was run by Dai Mustow, as we knew him, along with his wife and they lived next to his brother in one of ...read more here
A memory of St Athan contributed by Mr WM Price
Hammett's Farm.
This building was known to us as Hammett's Farm, properly West Orchard Farm, in the Higher End area of St Athan. Arthur Hammett and his wife ran the farm and I occasionally helped to deliver milk from the farm around the village from a horse and cart. Arthur, who lived to the great age of 92, and continued farming to the last, would bottle his own milk in a tiny parlour. He was a lovely chap and always gave us a mangold to make a lantern for Halowe'en night. The farmhouse is alongside the old main road from Barry to Llantwit Major before the huge RAF Station at St Athan was further enlarged and another road had ...read more here
A memory of St Athan contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
The Town Hall Steps
When I was very young I can remember that my mother used to let me run up and down the town hall steps.
A memory of Llantwit Major contributed by Ceri Bosley
Barry Island in the 50s and 60s
I traveled to Barry Island every summer because it was the nearest seaside to Brynmawr where we lived. The excitement of seeing the sea was overwhelming, and every time I would be sick on the old coach taking us there. We would first spend a few hours on the beach, then a walk around the shops, hoping for the biggest stick of rock possible. Then we spent an hour or so at the fair. I don't know how I ever went on the rides, I couldn't now! Then it was back to the coach. I was always OK going home, so it was just the thrill of being at Barry Island, something nice to look forward to. Barry Island has brought ...read more here
A memory of Barry Island contributed by jackie haynes
Extracts From Llancarfan & South Glamorgan books
A new decade would usher
in an era of rapid decline.
Both Bute East and West
docks neared closure.
West finally succumbed in
1964 with East surviving
a further six years.
The famous Butetown
community was ripped
apart by a programme
of demolition and re-
housing. We now know
that the area was not dead
but merely dormant.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
Today the city’s
international reputation
is based on its leisure
and tourist facilities.
The former tidal basin is
now a fresh water lake. A
waterbus (centre) enables
exploration of its eight-mile
waterfront. The St David’s
Hotel & Spa (second from
right) was completed
along with the barrage in
1999. With its distinctively
futuristic roof structure it is
Cardiff’s first purpose built
five star hotel.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
A paddle steamer
momentarily obscures
Penarth Head on route to
Cardiff where it will join
the massed ranks of vessels
from all around the world.
It is perhaps difficult today
to appreciate the port’s
international standing
at this time. Just prior to
the First World War nearly
50 nations had consular
representatives based
in the area - sometimes
a single person acting
on behalf of two small
neighbouring countries.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
The rich terracotta brick
Pier Head building (right)
was constructed in 1886 as
offices for the Bute Dock
Company. Some claim that
the grandeur of its design
vershadowed that of the
Coal Exchange prompting
the latter’s overhaul and
refurbishment in 1911. In
1922 it was taken over by
the Great Western Railway
whose acquisition of every
South Wales port instantly
made them the world’s
largest dock owner.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".
Prior to the advent of mass car ownership cycling to the park was an even more popular option than today. With so many
bicycles present this busy scene is more reminiscent of Oxford or Cambridge. Indentification of one’s own on retrieval must
have proved challenging! Note how neglected the Scott Memorial appears, its faded grey colour unfamiliar to us today.
An extract from from"Cardiff Old and New Photographic Memories".