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Central Station Cordoned Off
Just got back from a train journey with the missus and was directed to the rear of the station as police have cordoned off the front entrance. Anyone know what's happened ?
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BLUETIT
Cheers.
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BLUETIT
Cheers.
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2 youngsters in hospital with stab wounds
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SLUDGE FACTORY
2 youngsters in hospital with stab wounds
Gang related
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Awful place , dreadful views as you come out, offices half empty , half empty cafes , beggars , bolshie taxi drivers , probably looks better empty , keep it cordoned off is my advise , another shit show of planning , up the revolution .
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goats
Gang related
No school today , parents down the pub ?
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Awful place , dreadful views as you come out, offices half empty , half empty cafes , beggars , bolshie taxi drivers , probably looks better empty.
Yeah - it was loads better back in the day...
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Crikey, that's some photo! :thumbup:
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Cyclops
Temperance Town
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At least their bikes were safe, or is that the taxi rank
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I find the new buildings a bit brutal looking.
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NinianOpinion1927
I find the new buildings a bit brutal looking.
I know what you mean. They're a bit in your face when you exit the station. Smarter than the old bus station I suppose but completely lacking in character.
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splott parker
Temperance Town
I always thought Temperance Town was over towards where the old ice-rink used to be?
That photo seems to show the area immediately to the left as you exit the station.
However, I will bow down to your greater knowledge - you and BLUETIT probably had many a night out on the ale in Temperance Town. :hehe: :hehe:
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Moodybluebird
I know what you mean. They're a bit in your face when you exit the station. Smarter than the old bus station I suppose but completely lacking in character.
They are smarter but i bet it's a nightmare for travellers exiting the station requiring a bus. Especially those unfamiliar with the various streets.
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Rock_Flock_of_Five
I always thought Temperance Town was over towards where the old ice-rink used to be?
That photo seems to show the area immediately to the left as you exit the station.
However, I will bow down to your greater knowledge - you and BLUETIT probably had many a night out on the ale in Temperance Town. :hehe: :hehe:
Erm…Temperance Town, as the name suggests there were no nights out there. The developer who financed & built it in the 19th century was a strict teetotaller. Not one drinking establishment in the area. The father in law was born there in the 1920s, he ended up on the committees of the Docks Non Political Club & The Ex Servicemen’s, loved a drink all his life, he certainly railed against his roots:xmashehe:
The area around the old ice rink, Bute Terrace, Mary Ann St etc was notorious for its shebeens and drinking dens, no evidence of the temperance movement there.
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Rock_Flock_of_Five
I always thought Temperance Town was over towards where the old ice-rink used to be?
That photo seems to show the area immediately to the left as you exit the station.
However, I will bow down to your greater knowledge - you and BLUETIT probably had many a night out on the ale in Temperance Town. :hehe: :hehe:
Wasn't that Newtown?
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splott parker
Erm…Temperance Town, as the name suggests there were no nights out there. The developer who financed & built it in the 19th century was a strict teetotaller. Not one drinking establishment in the area. The father in law was born there in the 1920s, he ended up on the committees of the Docks Non Political Club & The Ex Servicemen’s, loved a drink all his life, he certainly railed against his roots:xmashehe:
I should know more about the history of my home city, but, say, your father in law lived bang in the middle of Temperance Town, how far would he have to walk to get to the nearest pub? It wouldn't have been too far would it?
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Robin Friday's Ghost
Wasn't that Newtown?
Newtown’s six streets were off Tyndall St, there are still a row of council houses there. It’s now a small industrial estate opposite the hotel. The black bridge over the railway linked it to Adam St, near The Vulcan.
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the other bob wilson
I should know more about the history of my home city, but, say, your father in law lived bang in the middle of Temperance Town, how far would he have to walk to get to the nearest pub? It wouldn't have been too far would it?
Temperance Town was on the exact spot of the old bus station. So getting a drink was no hard task. It was just very unusual for the time given that the norm was nigh on a pub in every terraced street.
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splott parker
Erm…Temperance Town, as the name suggests there were no nights out there. The developer who financed & built it in the 19th century was a strict teetotaller. Not one drinking establishment in the area. The father in law was born there in the 1920s, he ended up on the committees of the Docks Non Political Club & The Ex Servicemen’s, loved a drink all his life, he certainly railed against his roots:xmashehe:
The area around the old ice rink, Bute Terrace, Mary Ann St etc was notorious for its shebeens and drinking dens, no evidence of the temperance movement there.
Fair play, you enlightened me with a degree of compassion. In my ignorance, I had to Google the meaning of 'temperance'. Got it now. :xmasthumbup::xmashehe:
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Fair play, you enlightened me with a degree of compassion. In my ignorance, I had to Google the meaning of 'temperance'. Got it now. :xmasthumbup::xmashehe:
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splott parker
Newtown’s six streets were off Tyndall St, there are still a row of council houses there. It’s now a small industrial estate opposite the hotel. The black bridge over the railway linked it to Adam St, near The Vulcan.
Ah ok. I knew it started north of Tyndall Street but wondered if it extended further north to the other side of the railway.
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splott parker
Newtown’s six streets were off Tyndall St, there are still a row of council houses there. It’s now a small industrial estate opposite the hotel. The black bridge over the railway linked it to Adam St, near The Vulcan.
The Fitzgeralds used to run the pub in Newtown. The name escapes me for the moment, but I’ve only had one cup of coffee :xmashehe:
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splott parker
Temperance Town was on the exact spot of the old bus station. So getting a drink was no hard task. It was just very unusual for the time given that the norm was nigh on a pub in every terraced street.
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BLUETIT
At least their bikes were safe, or is that the taxi rank
Amazing photo what year would that be?
My Mother grew up on the other side of the station.
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One of our posters had a relative who lived in Temperance Town. She was of Irish descent and when around the age of eleven she was blinded in one eye by a brother with a red-hot poker. She never married and had seven kids, one of whom was killed by a van.
That was one of the better tales of his relatives.....
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The streets ran from Wood Street (named after the guy who owned the land) to the station and were the first proper view visitors had of Cardiff.
Hard to understand why they began to be demolished in the 1930s.
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If I remember rightly Temperance town was a place that specifically had to no alcohol / pubs - is that right?
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If I remember rightly Temperance town was a place that specifically had to no alcohol / pubs - is that right?
That's what temperance means
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The streets ran from Wood Street (named after the guy who owned the land) to the station and were the first proper view visitors had of Cardiff.
Hard to understand why they began to be demolished in the 1930s.
:xmasthumbup: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifest...rhoods-8978805
Loads of Temperance Town and the Bus Station being built.
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My father's parents came over from Waterford and lived in Temperance Town, he was born there, no pubs but three brothels in his street. I think the houses were demolished as they had become slums.
I used to walk to St. DAVIDS school passing Millicent Street and Mary Ann Street. My main memory of that area is the second hand bookshop there.
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Is Newtown aka Temperence Town ?
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cantonboy
My father's parents came over from Waterford and lived in Temperance Town, he was born there, no pubs but three brothels in his street. I think the houses were demolished as they had become slums.
I used to walk to St. DAVIDS school passing Millicent Street and Mary Ann Street. My main memory of that area is the second hand bookshop there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown,_Cardiff
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Is Newtown aka Temperence Town ?
No
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It's funny how this thread has
developed, from a negative (stabbings) to a rather interesting journey back to yesteryear.
The beauty of CCMB!
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Rock_Flock_of_Five
It's funny how this thread has
developed, from a negative (stabbings) to a rather interesting journey back to yesteryear.
The beauty of CCMB!
indeed, we have our knockers, but this place is still a joy to read