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[pipster]

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If I remember rightly Temperance town was a place that specifically had to no alcohol / pubs - is that right?

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

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If I remember rightly Temperance town was a place that specifically had to no alcohol / pubs - is that right?

That's what temperance means

[North Cardiff Blue]

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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.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifest...rhoods-8978805

Loads of Temperance Town and the Bus Station being built.

[cantonboy]

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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.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Is Newtown aka Temperence Town ?

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown,_Cardiff

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

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[BLUETIT]

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Is Newtown aka Temperence Town ?

No

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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It's funny how this thread has
developed, from a negative (stabbings) to a rather interesting journey back to yesteryear.

The beauty of CCMB!

[blue matt]

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It's funny how this thread has
developed, from a negative (stabbings) to a rather interesting journey back to yesteryear.

The beauty of CCMB!

indeed, we have our knockers, but this place is still a joy to read

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

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indeed, we have our knockers, but this place is still a joy to read

Sludge in 3..2..1

[Moodybluebird]

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It's funny how this thread has
developed, from a negative (stabbings) to a rather interesting journey back to yesteryear.

The beauty of CCMB!

You could say my original post has been derailed. Sorry, I'll get my coat.

[the other bob wilson]

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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.

What a pair of really good, atmospheric photos.

[Rjk]

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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?

Certainly not as far to walk as someone living in the middle of Pontprennau or any of the new housing estates they're building around the city

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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.

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.