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**MOZZER2** · 05-11-23, 21:28

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if you don't mind stretching your legs park near the Cornwall pub top end of grange town and walk in

**blue matt** · 05-11-23, 21:30

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Originally posted by MOZZER2 View Post

if you don't mind stretching your legs park near the Cornwall pub top end of grange town and walk in

We have a meeting in Sophia gardens, so would be better if I could park outside

**SLUDGE FACTORY** · 05-11-23, 22:14

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Originally posted by blue matt View Post

We have a meeting in Sophia gardens, so would be better if I could park outside

I fish in the taff behind there

I generally don't have a problem but if it's chokka I drive to where the old electricity club was , the start of pontcanna fields ?

It's a ten minute stroll to Sophia Gardens from there but obviously there are resident only areas in places

**Loramski** · 05-11-23, 23:52

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Originally posted by blue matt View Post

We have a meeting in Sophia gardens, so would be better if I could park outside

If your meeting is in the sports centre, parking is free in the car park in front of there for anyone using the facilities (the pay and display is down by the coach station). Not sure how they stop shoppers or town workers parking there but my lad has been a regular over the years and I'm not aware of him having had a problem getting a space unless there's a big event on. Maybe phone ahead if you want better information but you should be fine.

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**the other bob wilson** · 06-11-23, 05:11

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I was usually able to find somewhere to park in the streets nearby when I’d go to watch Glamorgan at Sophia Gardens in a Championship game, but, increasingly, it became a case of having to drive around the area for some time waiting for someone to drive off - I was usually able to find somewhere within about a five minute walk of Sophia Gardens.

**BLUETIT** · 06-11-23, 06:28

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Originally posted by the other bob wilson View Post

I was usually able to find somewhere to park in the streets nearby when I’d go to watch Glamorgan at Sophia Gardens in a Championship game, but, increasingly, it became a case of having to drive around the area for some time waiting for someone to drive off - I was usually able to find somewhere within about a five minute walk of Sophia Gardens.

Using all those fumes driving around, don’t tell Duckford, otherwise he’ll have you hung, drawn and quartered

**Armitage Shanks** · 06-11-23, 07:12

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There's a car park where the national express bus stop is

**blue matt** · 06-11-23, 08:27

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thanks all

**North Cardiff Blue** · 06-11-23, 11:36

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Originally posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post

I fish in the taff behind there

I generally don't have a problem but if it's chokka I drive to where the old electricity club was , the start of pontcanna fields ?

It's a ten minute stroll to Sophia Gardens from there but obviously there are resident only areas in places

What's in that part of the Taff now?

I used to see Salmon swimming up and trying to get up the weir, but not for a good few years.

They should be returning about now, shouldn't they?

**xsnaggle** · 06-11-23, 13:13

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Originally posted by North Cardiff Blue View Post

What's in that part of the Taff now?

I used to see Salmon swimming up and trying to get up the weir, but not for a good few years.

They should be returning about now, shouldn't they?

There's a salmon ladder on Blackwier so he fish can get up to their spawning grounds. You can look down into it sometimes and se them jumping up.

**SLUDGE FACTORY** · 06-11-23, 13:17

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Originally posted by North Cardiff Blue View Post

What's in that part of the Taff now?

I used to see Salmon swimming up and trying to get up the weir, but not for a good few years.

They should be returning about now, shouldn't they?

Up to Blackweir there are roach , dace , chub , perch , pike , barbel , bream and carp

I don't know anything about Salmon as I don't fish for them but the rivers are a lot cleaner than they were so I would imagine that there are more about than during the coal mining years ?

Plenty of trout and mullet at the bottom end of cathedral road in the summer

It's pike and perch I fish for

**Ivortheengine** · 06-11-23, 16:35

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How does this thread go from car parking to fish ? Something not right somewhere

**blue matt** · 06-11-23, 22:08

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thanks all

Parked in the big car park next to the nat express bus station, did walk upto the National sports place, a car pulled out, but apart from that space, it was full

Nice walk into town after though the park, Town is a bit of a dump these days, I havent been in since pre-coivd times, loads of empty shops and far too many homeless making a nuisance of themselves, a shame really

**Eric the Half a Bee** · 06-11-23, 22:13

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Originally posted by blue matt View Post

thanks all

Parked in the big car park next to the nat express bus station, did walk upto the National sports place, a car pulled out, but apart from that space, it was full

Nice walk into town after though the park, Town is a bit of a dump these days, I havent been in since pre-coivd times, loads of empty shops and far too many homeless making a nuisance of themselves, a shame really

Get Braverman there. She'll kick their tents down.

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