CCS Stadium site from years ago

[Michael Morris]

80's / 90's?

[Michael Morris]

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[19bluebirds27]

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Cheers for that Mike.
Great to see the site (City Gardens) before they built my old house on top.

Wish the camera panned slightly to the left to get Ninian Park in shot too.

[the other bob wilson]

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I’d guess it’s the eighties - I think the houses behind Virgil Streetwere there in the early nineties.

[RichardM]

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I’d guess it’s the eighties - I think the houses behind Virgil Streetwere there in the early nineties.

I'd guess 90's some of the houses opposite the school in Sloper Road, off Bessemer Street, are there. I didn't think there were housed there when I moved to Cardiff in 87.

[UNDERHILL1927]

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Ah a tiny look at Ninian Park in the corner. *sheds internal tear.

[TWGL1]

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I didn’t know there was a football pitch next to Cardiff Bus depot.

Is it still there ?

[BlueArmy 86]

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I didn’t know there was a football pitch next to Cardiff Bus depot.

Is it still there ?

Yeah that's coronation park. Still there now. I used to play there for Grange Albion.

I think its late 80's. I have family who live in Carlton Gardens behind Virgil Street, and they lived there as long as i can remember, which is almost all of the nineties.

[BLUETIT]

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Going by the registration number on the white Ford Transit on Sloper Road, it’s later than 1987

[The Bloop]

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Glamorgan archives think the photo was taken in the early 90s.

[Jamsarnie]

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The stand hasn’t been built - or the track laid - at the athletics stadium which opened in August ‘89.

I’d say 1988 or late ‘87. Or maybe earlier if there were delays in the build - there doesn’t look like there’s much work going on.

[chris lee]

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Looks like the old athletics stadium is near enough the exact same location of CCS

[Canton Kev]

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Grangetown station looks a lot closer compared to any time I have to walk to/from it.
Also is that a second railway track carrying straight on towards the Bay or just a road?

[poc]

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Grangetown station looks a lot closer compared to any time I have to walk to/from it.
Also is that a second railway track carrying straight on towards the Bay or just a road?

there was a railway line that used to go to the old warehouses and onto pass the the red house pub at the bottom of ferry rd to the oil storage tanks maybe thats the one you can see

[valleys caveman]

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Google maps street view of Sloper Road shows Ninian Park still there, with the CCS being built.

Next home game Ajax, 7:45, Aug 1.