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If a trimmer was taking the hot metal off the beds, then yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by alfie
I only went there as I finished on a site and there was not a lot out there, so my brother got me in.
Great money, but lousy hours, especially 2 till 10. Sun beaming down and you’re going to work. Not for me
No, a trimmer was the ones in the rod mill where they took a cut off the coils for testing. It sounds to me like you were in the next mill called the 9 and 12Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
As a student, I lived for a year on Pearl Street.
Can someone remind me of the name of the pub at the bottom of Clifton Street
..... and the late night / after hours cafe further up the road ?
Which end.You had the Splotlands one end and the Tredegar the other.Both shut down now.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarcP
Pub was the TredegarQuote:
Originally Posted by MarcP
Welsh Brewers pub, sold Hancocks, name escapes me.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarcP
The restaurant was the Patrice (spelling)
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Originally Posted by alfie
The Clifton is on the other end, still open
Restaurant ??? Your'e having a laugh.You ever been in there. It was worse than the tred. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
For years after that place had closed there were squatters in there, nobody seemed bothered though. The pub was as rough as ****, i remember going in there in my early twenties and there was a bloke in there sawing one of the tables in half, when i asked someone why he was doing it the reply was 'Because he's ****ing mad' suppose it made perfect sense at the time :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
Best eater in the diff in its era, mixed grill and a mountain of skinny chips :thumbup: rough as fk, cheap as chips, what more could you want after a session in Monty's if you hadn't pulled (I was always in the Patrice) !!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Well, we used to get a 2am steak in there, never went there during daylight :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by alfie
The Pat Rice-****ing carnage! I don't think anyone actually ate any of the food, just threw it at other pissed punters.Quote:
Originally Posted by alfie
It was OK for a while, but went downhill rapid with the drug barons moving in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
I knew a good few of them as they played rugby for adamsdown rugby club. Mad as hattersQuote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Didn't Pat Rice play for Arsenal?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Yup, Mental pub. The Locomotive on Broadway was a bit crazy as well. What was the other pub on Broadway that has closed down?Quote:
Originally Posted by alfie
What,you paid? We used to piss off when a fight startedQuote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
Yup, the place was called the Patrice hence Pat Rice. He probably would've done a better job of cooking the food than they did.Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardM
The Bertram , New Dock TavernQuote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
:hehe: There was always bother.Quote:
Originally Posted by alfie
The Bertram, that's the one. The New Dock was byThe Royal Oak i think?Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Had my 1st wedding reception in the Tred.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
The Bertram was on Braodway wasn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
The locomotive was a place to avoid for a number of years before it closed. A mate of mine from ely was in there one day and went to the toilet where his own cousin tried to mug him. He was so smashed out of his head he didn't even recognise him.
But my firend and his brothers had long memories.
Ah, yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
Now I remember
Agree, a pretty rough place............ but often bought our Sunday joint/meat there on the Saturday night.
I started in GKN Castle Works, Cold Roll department, in early 1980. The section I worked on was permanent mornings, I was a bit worried at first as how I'd cope with having to start at 6am every day. However, it wasn't too long before we were working short-time. I would usually work Monday to Wednesday and then off Thursday and Friday with 80% of normal pay, this lasted for about 2 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by alfie
I was single at the time and living in a bedsit in Canton, so I had no real financial worries, it suited me fine, particularly in the summer.
Not surprisingly the Cold Roll shut not long after and I was transferred to the Re-Bar department on the Tremorfa site.
The Bertram was a rough place. The 'travelling community' used to get in there a lot, especially around the pool table in the bar.Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
Thank god. Enough lunatics there without a pub!!Quote:
Originally Posted by alfie
I went to a wedding party there, on a Saturday night, upstairs.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
We bought those 7 pint tins, to take to the “after party”
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Originally Posted by dembethewarrior
Great estate and times during the 60’s.
Used to stay up there after school (St Illtyds), before riding home to Roath.
Later years, the Goodies used to have a fantastic skittle roll off, on a Saturday night, before we all went to town, mostly with the kitty money. GREAT TIMES
Another late night Broadway haunt was the Numismatics Club (just a little bit further down than The New Dock), it was eventually taken over by a bloke named a Billy Hood and renamed, can’t remember what he called it at first, something ‘Pantry’ I think, them he changed the name to a Clayton’s Prison. Didn’t open until about 11pm and went on all night, crazy place.
The Howardians club in Clifton Street for an after hours drink.
Most of the old bill from next door got in there as well.
ACCACsQuote:
Originally Posted by alfie
Was something ‘Pantry’, it was called Jan’s Kitchen, like a mad speakeasy:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
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Originally Posted by splott parker
Wasn’t I meant:thumbup:
Ah...memories....my favourite laces were The Pilot at the start of Bute Street....(where all the offices are now) and the Ship and Pilot down the docks....great sawdust floor places.......the latter has a new trendy name now I think....there was also another pub on a corner just up from The Pilot...can't remember the name...always packed......
Fascinating list here of the old pubs of Cardiff. It's amazin how many pubd there were in the city centre.
But what drew my attention was the Clifton in broadway.
It says "formally know as the Tredegar" how odd is that given that the tredegar people remember now was at the opposite end of clifton Street.
greatest apo,gies for the wrong alink, i don't know how that happened. the proper link is here.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/ca...vol5/pp438-445
Thats right it was The ACACs I payed for them and The Tredegar pub was my local for about 25 years .Quote:
Originally Posted by light up the darkness
And as other posters have said it was a mad pub but what memories some mad and fantastic ones probably some of the best times I ever had.
I was also a regular in here,used to go in there with my mate Tony Debono [god rest his soul] we used to order chicken curry & chips/rice 1/2 & 1/2 but I think it was Mulligatawny soup with bits of chicken in.:hehe::hehe::hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
It was cheaper than you could make it for yourself about 3 quid:hehe::hehe::hehe:
The Ship was the next one towards west bute st. The big one on the corner of James and bute st's was the mountstuart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maurice Swan