Following a campaign by a resident of North Cardiff, Junction 30 on the M4 was opened in 2015. Unknown to other motorway users, it leads directly to resident's back garden and is for their personal use only.
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Following a campaign by a resident of North Cardiff, Junction 30 on the M4 was opened in 2015. Unknown to other motorway users, it leads directly to resident's back garden and is for their personal use only.
Loads of times , in written print and on BBC Wales Today , its a complete myth . Ely , Townhill etc are far far biggerQuote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
Brackla in Bridgend has also been said to be one of Britain's biggest housing developments
It's not
"The reason why there are so many mountains and hills in Wales, is because the Welsh took so much land from the English, that they had to stack it high"
- NOT true!
Aren't Ely and Townhill suburbs rather than housing estates?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
According to the 2011 Cencus they are estatesQuote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
Population of Ely 15000
Townhill 8000
Gurnos 5000
When I was at college we had an urban studies lecturer who had us rolling about laughing when the myth that the gurnos was a huge housing estate was going around
For a town with a population of 50 odd thousand it's a big place but it's not a big place in the big picture
Holme Wood in Bradford has a population of 30000 and I think there may be even bigger estates than that
Depends on your definition of housing estate I guess. To me it's a development of council houses built by a local authority, of which the Gurnos is one. Ely and Brackla aren't.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
If you throw careau in with Ely, which most people do, then the population rises to around 25,000.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I thought it was Ely that used to be the biggest housing estate in Europe? Thats what i was told anyway :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
I think the biggest is in Romford, or around that area, London overspill. Something like 50, 000 residents, although that sounds a lot, doesn't it? Maybe I'm way off.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueArmy 86
I have heard that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueArmy 86
I think it's called Beacontree ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
"Wales is a principality of England"
You're right, Dagenham way. ****ing huge, housed loads of the ford plant workers.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
It's a very large estate but not the biggest in the UKQuote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
Considering how big it is the people who live there have been served up with crap facilities for years
Maybe it's to do with the geography but why hasn't it got a train station ? The nearest one is fairwater
It's almost forgotten like St Mellons , Llanrhymney ?
Now THAT'S a big estate 😆Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Are Ford still making cars there ?
Bridgend engine plant is going or gone
It rains all the time
That's clearly untrue
It's sunny today for example 😎😀
Not so. Wales is 8,000 square miles in area. England is 50,000. That 8,000 square miles could not exceed 50,000 square miles when flattened out. (And England's area would expand even more if it was flattened out).Quote:
Originally Posted by bobh
All Welsh people can sing.
I wish!
When people from the UK moan about "Welsh weather", whatever that really is.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
If someone from Bristol or wherever wants to claim they have better weather then be my guest but I can't help imagining two badly balding guys arguing over who has the best comb over.
The difference to England is that we give it a go mindQuote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
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Originally Posted by insider
That everyone sounds like Stacey from Gavin and Stacey.
That if you go to a pub in a Welsh speaking place then they go quiet and are from that point probably talking about you because they know you're English. - heard this story so many times.
Everyone has a weird deep hatred of England or English people. Sure some do but certainly nowhere near most, certainly no one I know of personally.
Cardiff is Europe's fastest growing capital city.
Everything in Wales must be close so why bother looking at google or a map - get this so much in work, people from outside Wales will email our Cardiff office when it should go to merthyr, North Wales wherever because they think it must be here. Where as if I don't know where something is in England, Scotland wherever I'll just look on Google.
I think that you're wrong mate. I saw it on a sticker of the back window of a Corsa. I'll just add that there are plenty of people in Wales whose 'other' car is a Ferrari as well. Culture.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
If you are Welsh you are a good singer! They obviously haven't heard me.
In the mid 1980s I was working on the building of the A470 around Aberfan/Merthyr Vale. A younger engineers stopped work one day at about 3pm and looked out the window, as he wanted to see the dirty miners walking home from the pit whilst they sang! True.