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One of our posters had a relative who lived in Temperance Town. She was of Irish descent and when around the age of eleven she was blinded in one eye by a brother with a red-hot poker. She never married and had seven kids, one of whom was killed by a van.
That was one of the better tales of his relatives.....
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The streets ran from Wood Street (named after the guy who owned the land) to the station and were the first proper view visitors had of Cardiff.
Hard to understand why they began to be demolished in the 1930s.
If I remember rightly Temperance town was a place that specifically had to no alcohol / pubs - is that right?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifest...rhoods-8978805
Loads of Temperance Town and the Bus Station being built.
My father's parents came over from Waterford and lived in Temperance Town, he was born there, no pubs but three brothels in his street. I think the houses were demolished as they had become slums.
I used to walk to St. DAVIDS school passing Millicent Street and Mary Ann Street. My main memory of that area is the second hand bookshop there.
Is Newtown aka Temperence Town ?
It's funny how this thread has
developed, from a negative (stabbings) to a rather interesting journey back to yesteryear.
The beauty of CCMB!
I always understood that it extended north right through the area where they later had Cardiff Arms Park, now the Pricipality Stadium. slightly off topic I also recall when I was young being told that when they bought the area for the rugby ground there was a pub there right on the edge of temperance town, and the owner refused to sell unless they agreed to name the ground after the pub.