Quote Originally Posted by Harry Monk View Post
That area was massively hit in WWII. The Steel Works and docks were targetted.

On one night of bombing Cardiff, one Luftwaffe bomber mistook the Irish Sea for the Severn Estuary and bombed Cork City by mistake.

Between 1940 and March 1944 approximately 2,100 bombs fell on Cardiff killing 355 people.
I'd never realised that so many bombs had been dropped on Cardiff. I mean, if someone said 50-100 bombs had been dropped, that would seem quite a lot, but bloody over 2,000!