Rumney
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Map of South Glamorgan
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Rumney books (5 available)
Around Penarth Photographic Memories
Paperback
Around Penarth Photographic Memories
Hardback
Did You Know? Cardiff - A Miscellany
Hardback
- 3 photos on Rumney appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Rumney
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Rumney memories
Read and share memories of Rumney and South Glamorgan inspired by Frith photos
Childhood
Was delighted when I saw this picture of St Augustines. I was christened in 1950 at this church. Also confirmed here, belonged to Church Girl Guides and Youth Club. Vicar was Reverend Smith. Have very fond memories of this church.
Contributed by Sharne Smith
The Ford family....
This is a picture of St. Augustine's Church, Rumney. We were married there on August 5th 1957. It is also the resting place of my husband's Mother, Father and Sister. All are buried in the Churchyard.
We moved to Canada in 1965.
Contributed by beryl ford
South Glamorgan memories
Childhood
Was delighted when I saw this picture of St Augustines. I was christened in 1950 at this church. Also confirmed here, belonged to Church Girl Guides and Youth Club. Vicar was Reverend Smith. Have very fond memories of this church.
A memory of Rumney contributed by Sharne Smith
The Ford family....
This is a picture of St. Augustine's Church, Rumney. We were married there on August 5th 1957. It is also the resting place of my husband's Mother, Father and Sister. All are buried in the Churchyard.
We moved to Canada in 1965.
A memory of Rumney contributed by beryl ford
Extracts From Rumney & South Glamorgan books
St Augustine’s church is of the Early English period, with a later Perpendicular embattled tower with pinnacles. It was restored in 1860.
An extract from from"South Wales Photographic Memories".
Many estates of what we now call social housing sprang up around Britain following the war. The long rows of new council houses can be seen on the right of this picture, while the older, more substantial houses appear on the left. Much of the local authority housing was pretty cheerless in design, but it satisfied a great demand in the decades following the Second World War, due both to war damage and slum clearance in nearby Cardiff.
An extract from from"Wales Living Memories".
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".