Central Station Cordoned Off

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Temperance Town

I always thought Temperance Town was over towards where the old ice-rink used to be?
That photo seems to show the area immediately to the left as you exit the station.
However, I will bow down to your greater knowledge - you and BLUETIT probably had many a night out on the ale in Temperance Town. :hehe: :hehe:

[NinianOpinion1927]

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I know what you mean. They're a bit in your face when you exit the station. Smarter than the old bus station I suppose but completely lacking in character.

They are smarter but i bet it's a nightmare for travellers exiting the station requiring a bus. Especially those unfamiliar with the various streets.

[splott parker]

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I always thought Temperance Town was over towards where the old ice-rink used to be?
That photo seems to show the area immediately to the left as you exit the station.
However, I will bow down to your greater knowledge - you and BLUETIT probably had many a night out on the ale in Temperance Town. :hehe: :hehe:

Erm…Temperance Town, as the name suggests there were no nights out there. The developer who financed & built it in the 19th century was a strict teetotaller. Not one drinking establishment in the area. The father in law was born there in the 1920s, he ended up on the committees of the Docks Non Political Club & The Ex Servicemen’s, loved a drink all his life, he certainly railed against his roots:xmashehe:

The area around the old ice rink, Bute Terrace, Mary Ann St etc was notorious for its shebeens and drinking dens, no evidence of the temperance movement there.

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

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I always thought Temperance Town was over towards where the old ice-rink used to be?
That photo seems to show the area immediately to the left as you exit the station.
However, I will bow down to your greater knowledge - you and BLUETIT probably had many a night out on the ale in Temperance Town. :hehe: :hehe:

Wasn't that Newtown?

[the other bob wilson]

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Erm…Temperance Town, as the name suggests there were no nights out there. The developer who financed & built it in the 19th century was a strict teetotaller. Not one drinking establishment in the area. The father in law was born there in the 1920s, he ended up on the committees of the Docks Non Political Club & The Ex Servicemen’s, loved a drink all his life, he certainly railed against his roots:xmashehe:

I should know more about the history of my home city, but, say, your father in law lived bang in the middle of Temperance Town, how far would he have to walk to get to the nearest pub? It wouldn't have been too far would it?

[splott parker]

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Wasn't that Newtown?

Newtown’s six streets were off Tyndall St, there are still a row of council houses there. It’s now a small industrial estate opposite the hotel. The black bridge over the railway linked it to Adam St, near The Vulcan.

[splott parker]

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I should know more about the history of my home city, but, say, your father in law lived bang in the middle of Temperance Town, how far would he have to walk to get to the nearest pub? It wouldn't have been too far would it?

Temperance Town was on the exact spot of the old bus station. So getting a drink was no hard task. It was just very unusual for the time given that the norm was nigh on a pub in every terraced street.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Erm…Temperance Town, as the name suggests there were no nights out there. The developer who financed & built it in the 19th century was a strict teetotaller. Not one drinking establishment in the area. The father in law was born there in the 1920s, he ended up on the committees of the Docks Non Political Club & The Ex Servicemen’s, loved a drink all his life, he certainly railed against his roots:xmashehe:

The area around the old ice rink, Bute Terrace, Mary Ann St etc was notorious for its shebeens and drinking dens, no evidence of the temperance movement there.

Fair play, you enlightened me with a degree of compassion. In my ignorance, I had to Google the meaning of 'temperance'. Got it now. :xmasthumbup::xmashehe:

[splott parker]

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Fair play, you enlightened me with a degree of compassion. In my ignorance, I had to Google the meaning of 'temperance'. Got it now. :xmasthumbup::xmashehe:

:xmasthumbup:

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

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Newtown’s six streets were off Tyndall St, there are still a row of council houses there. It’s now a small industrial estate opposite the hotel. The black bridge over the railway linked it to Adam St, near The Vulcan.

Ah ok. I knew it started north of Tyndall Street but wondered if it extended further north to the other side of the railway.

[BLUETIT]

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Newtown’s six streets were off Tyndall St, there are still a row of council houses there. It’s now a small industrial estate opposite the hotel. The black bridge over the railway linked it to Adam St, near The Vulcan.

The Fitzgeralds used to run the pub in Newtown. The name escapes me for the moment, but I’ve only had one cup of coffee :xmashehe:

[the other bob wilson]

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Temperance Town was on the exact spot of the old bus station. So getting a drink was no hard task. It was just very unusual for the time given that the norm was nigh on a pub in every terraced street.

:xmasthumbup:

[North Cardiff Blue]

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At least their bikes were safe, or is that the taxi rank

Amazing photo what year would that be?

My Mother grew up on the other side of the station.

[Cyclops]

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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.....

[Cyclops]

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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.