An astonishing aerial view of central Cardiff from 1923

[Cyclops]

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[insider]

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Bottom centre just above the railway is the York Hotel brains pub

[the other bob wilson]

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Loudon Square, Butetown

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[stevebrickman]

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That’s an amazing photo. I never realised there was a canal at the bottom of st Mary’s street

[stevebrickman]

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Did the canal run all the way down through Bute street to the Bay?

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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The Gas holder is actually close to the location of the Big Sleep Hotel (or whatever it's now called), opposite the Motorpoint.

The Big Sleep Hotel used to be the Gas building. Which makes perfect sense that it was built on the site of an old gas tank.

The person that thought it was The Angel Hotel, it's not. That is roughly the site now of The Marriot Hotel on Mill Lane. The canal ran along Mill Lane.

Which is why I said..."I thought it was the Angel hotel location and Westgate street, but that simply can't be"

[splott parker]

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Did the canal run all the way down through Bute street to the Bay?

It ran from town past The York hence the street names being East Canal Wharf & West Canal Wharf, it ran parallel with Bute St but behind the houses, it’s a park now. It would have carried on through James St near The White Hart, Nethercott’s (Smellies) shop was on the corner of the park, and down to the Docks itself.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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It ran from town past The York hence the street names being East Canal Wharf & West Canal Wharf, it ran parallel with Bute St but behind the houses, it’s a park now. It would have carried on through James St near The White Hart, Nethercott’s (Smellies) shop was on the corner of the park, and down to the Docks itself.

What kind of a shop was Nethercott’s (Smellies) and why was it called "Smellies".... a fishmonger's?

[light up the darkness]

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My father was born in a house on Hills Terrace 1906. It’s where St David’s 2 is located.

The house backed onto the canal that then went under the railway bridge past the York Hotel. My paternal grandfather was a coal trimmer on the coal barges that ran down the canal to the Docks.

I’m told that he’d be waiting for the barges at home and he would run and jump on the barge as it went past

[Barmy]

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It ran from town past The York hence the street names being East Canal Wharf & West Canal Wharf, it ran parallel with Bute St but behind the houses, it’s a park now. It would have carried on through James St near The White Hart, Nethercott’s (Smellies) shop was on the corner of the park, and down to the Docks itself.

My parents called it smellies,it was Tugs to us kids born in the sixties.
I fondly remember playing pool in there and going over the moon on the pinball, hey Poc!
The Canal was filled in but still integral to the docks.

[Barmy]

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That’s an amazing photo. I never realised there was a canal at the bottom of st Mary’s street

The canal was the other end of James st. Where it met Clarence rd.
There was a train line there also.

[xsnaggle]

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I don’t think that’s right. I’m seeing Mill Lane and the crossroads at the end of St Mary’s street at the bottom left and the railway lines are headed towards Central station just out of picture at the bottom.

It's St Mary Street!

[celever]

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https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=51.47715&lon=-3.17607&layers=193&right=BingHyb

this double map shows where it all is

[splott parker]

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What kind of a shop was Nethercott’s (Smellies) and why was it called "Smellies".... a fishmonger's?

It was a general store but had a pin ball machine so kids hung around in there. Why ‘Smellies’ I don’t know but that’s what it was always referred to.

[poc]

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Yeah that's what I see. You can actually see the start of Central Station platforms bottom left if you blow-up the photo. The bridge at the north end of Bute Street is plainly visible. I first thought there had been a flood, but it's obvious that it's smoke giving that impression.

I was researching that canal and Dumballs Road seems to have built on top of it.

dont think thats right the canal run alongside dumballs rd where the park is now