Fascinating Article And Photos On Tiger Bay
BBC News - #towerlives: Rise of towers and fall of Tiger Bay
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35997410
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I love these old photographs, thanks for the link.
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Loudoun Square would be a gem in our City nowadays. Grand, solid, expensively built houses, huge square - probably a couple of £million each nowadays. What we destroyed in this Country with the aid of architects and planners is beyond criminal. Every single City is blighted with the replacement high rise rabbit hutches that have bred unhappiness, discontent, loneliness, and squalor. Not to mention crime..
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SLUDGE FACTORY
Great piece.
We were only discussing recently the demolition of some historic buildings, the pubs, all round the City.
Buildings should not be deliberately left to rot, torn down and in their place some soul-less cheap block of flats billed as "modern living".
"As a child you think the whole world is like your immediate environment. It was only as I got older that I realised the rest of the world didn't live as we did, they didn't have respect and tolerance for one another"
So true. Innocence preceding reality.
The greed and the prejudices kick in.
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It's giving a sanitised and political spin really, but it does give me the excuse to point out that the main Chinese family down there were the Ng's.
I know they pronounce the name of our new player as "EnGee" ( apparently there's a Singapore connection), but the Ng family and everyone down there used to say "Ung" with a very clipped U sound.
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A Quiet Monkfish
Loudoun Square would be a gem in our City nowadays. Grand, solid, expensively built houses, huge square - probably a couple of £million each nowadays. What we destroyed in this Country with the aid of architects and planners is beyond criminal. Every single City is blighted with the replacement high rise rabbit hutches that have bred unhappiness, discontent, loneliness, and squalor. Not to mention crime..
1964 those tower blocks were built
They have been continually refurbished but I am surprised they are still there
Channel View tower block in Grangetown is marked for demolition
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MacAdder
Great piece.
We were only discussing recently the demolition of some historic buildings, the pubs, all round the City.
Buildings should not be deliberately left to rot, torn down and in their place some soul-less cheap block of flats billed as "modern living".
"As a child you think the whole world is like your immediate environment. It was only as I got older that I realised the rest of the world didn't live as we did, they didn't have respect and tolerance for one another"
So true. Innocence preceding reality.
The greed and the prejudices kick in.
aye
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A Quiet Monkfish
Loudoun Square would be a gem in our City nowadays. Grand, solid, expensively built houses, huge square - probably a couple of £million each nowadays. What we destroyed in this Country with the aid of architects and planners is beyond criminal. Every single City is blighted with the replacement high rise rabbit hutches that have bred unhappiness, discontent, loneliness, and squalor. Not to mention crime..
You only have to look at the houses on Windsor Esplanade to see what potential was destroyed around other areas of the bay
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The Bloop
You only have to look at the houses on Windsor Esplanade to see what potential was destroyed around other areas of the bay
Those 4 storey houses along the esplanade went for a song mid-eighties before the bay development.
Their value rocketed once the planners gave the all-clear for the housing, retail, entertainment and commercial development that we know today.
How long before the next stage of redevelopment, 20 years? Sooner?
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The Bloop
You only have to look at the houses on Windsor Esplanade to see what potential was destroyed around other areas of the bay
The old black and white photos don't do the old buildings justice. Those houses on the Esplanade are stunning.