Nostalia

[Bluebirdman Of Alcathays]

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I did not say she was my favourite...read again....no labour message/person ever came close to her thinking. My thinking regarding the lost soul of towns is limited in practicality. My only 'claim to fame' in this respect is when I lived on Pontypridd. There was a proposal to demolish a beautiful old Victorian building in Tyfica Road and replace it with either six 'boxes'. or an old peoples home. It was derelict.....drug addicts used it....Fire damage....I could have afforded to buy it, but not restore it.....but I fought alongside a local councillor and eventually planning permissions were refused. Eventually it was restored and became once again a beautiful home in the centre of the town.

Okay, not your favourite but memorable above all others for the right reasons. Glad to hear you were able to protect the building but that would need to happen all the time and I'm sure it wasn't easy for you. People aren't told in good time about plans for new buildings, find it difficult to find time to assemble and research and protest and are belittled if they do.

Another thing is that the law is often on the side of the planners and developers and they can apply to other bodies if planning is refused. The councils, fearing the litigation and expense, then wave it through.

There are good councillors/politicians though; that one who helped you must have been alright.

[cyril evans awaydays]

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Nostalgia ain't what it used yo be.

Certainly Nostalia isn't

[splott parker]

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Certainly Nostalia isn't

Where is Nostalia anyway?

[splott parker]

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Noel has nothing to do with this subject...

You’re being hard work Maurice, are Vearncombe & Dilwyn John still bugging you?:xmashehe:

[cyril evans awaydays]

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Where is Nostalia anyway?

Up the Nirvana Valley, across the way from Shangri-La.

[splott parker]

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Up the Nirvana Valley, across the way from Shangri-La.

I think the City should be checking out Nostalian internationals, bloody embargo though.............you do know that Maurice will be annoyed at our flippancy!!!!!

[Maurice Swan]

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You’re being hard work Maurice, are Vearncombe & Dilwyn John still bugging you?:xmashehe:

ah....would see off Vearncombe anyday..... (and his deputy Ron Nicholls...) Now Dilwyn was altogether a different matter...(debut at 17....those were the days.....)...terrific young keeper. He was made a scapegoat after being 6-0 down at half time (I think..) away to Chelsea...and then Bobby Tambling hit the bar from about 35 yards...

Salutations....time to put presents for the children under the tree...!!! Bon Nuit.

[Dorcus]

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ah....would see off Vearncombe anyday..... (and his deputy Ron Nicholls...) Now Dilwyn was altogether a different matter...(debut at 17....those were the days.....)...terrific young keeper. He was made a scapegoat after being 6-0 down at half time (I think..) away to Chelsea...and then Bobby Tambling hit the bar from about 35 yards...

Salutations....time to put presents for the children under the tree...!!! Bon Nuit.

Joyeaux Noel

[xsnaggle]

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No problem...I just phone SAMU and they would deal with it!!!

What if you've broken your leg and your phone doesn't work? :shrug:

[splott parker]

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What if you've broken your leg and your phone doesn't work? :shrug:

Or, on the other hand, you’ve broken your phone and your legs don’t work:shrug:

[ToTaL ITK]

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remember when there wasn't auto tune..or im i just being nostaldic?

[xsnaggle]

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Or, on the other hand, you’ve broken your phone and your legs don’t work:shrug:

Or the SAMU rep who should be answering the phone had broken his leg and hasn't gone to work?

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Read a throw away comment under the Coventry thread from Sludge Factory:


Set me searching and reading about the canals under Cardiff and about the Churchill Way project - I rented there for a few months in Spring 2021....and that set me searching on a nostalgia trail where I was brought up in Cymmer, .Porth.

It is very sad that the character that it once had has been subject to planning vandalism over the decades. Who are the people making these decisions? Where are the residents that they haven't stood up to them? Porth is shocking and lacks any sort of ambience or welcome. One of my early positions was with Midland Bank in Tonypandy - around 1968-70. My word....the place was buzzing.... The Co-operative there was thriving. Customers would be queuing outside the doors on a Saturday morning. I drove around there a year or two back (I say around because in their wisdom the main road through had been pedestrianised......starving the town of passing traffic.). It was absolutely DEAD. It all saddens me.

I have a beautiful book on Valley chapels.....and yes, the population no longer supports them, but surely instead of knocking them down (and I include many Working Men's Halls etc) they could be put to other uses - even apartments if nothing else?? They are beautifully built, solid buildings. - why destroy them to be replaced with soul-less box houses that add nothing to the architectural heritage - indeed detract from it? Cheap and Nasty comes to mind.

WHAT has gone wrong over the years?? One cannot simply put the blame on National Government, so it comes down to Local - yes they always claim they are starved of funds etc etc.... but lack of funds does not necessarily mean that places cannot be preserved and eyesores avoided. It is a sad indictment that throughout this deterioration people continue to vote for a Labour council.

I have never voted Labour in my life, despite growing up there and my father working in the mines. You know, when I was young,, and things were not so autocratic, there was one person who still occupies my mind - Annie Powell - I believe that she was the first Communist Mayor in the UK...maybe the only one(?). She CARED about the community.

One of my regrets in life is that I never put myself forward for any office that could INFLUENCE issues. Mainly because although I was always a thinker, I needed time. I was not an orator...an inability to respond with a quick retort.. Later life has rectified that to some extent but....

Here now in the Dordogne in retirement, we have a local Marie (Mayor) who I can contact immediately with any issue. - no bureaucracy.
My two young sons (9 and 4) attend local village schools which are reminiscent of the UK in the fifties. Small classes, everyday involvement. Everyone knows each other....the doctor needs no appointments......He has no staff.....you just walk in if you have a problem.....never more than a few (one or two) in the small waiting room.

I await the bullets......and seasons greetings.

He's closing Wales down, they've succeeded in Porth, and Cardiff is next, it was once a nice City but now it's going downhill fast, I doubt I'll still live here in ten years the way it's going.

[StraightOuttaCanton]

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He's closing Wales down, they've succeeded in Porth, and Cardiff is next, it was once a nice City but now it's going downhill fast, I doubt I'll still live here in ten years the way it's going.

I was back in Cardiff in November for the first time in 5 years. I couldn’t believe how tired it looked. St.Mary St in particular was very run down. I used to recommend a visit to anyone I knew who was travelling to the UK. I wouldn’t do that anymore

[North Cardiff Blue]

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I was back in Cardiff in November for the first time in 5 years. I couldn’t believe how tired it looked. St.Mary St in particular was very run down. I used to recommend a visit to anyone I knew who was travelling to the UK. I wouldn’t do that anymore

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