The residential part heading towards Penylan. What's it like? Any opinions welcome.
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The residential part heading towards Penylan. What's it like? Any opinions welcome.
It used to be very up market but not so much now. The further down you go from the Claude, the closer you get to Newport Rd and Broadway. A lot of the beautiful old houses are now 3 or 4 1 and 2 bed flats. There are still some nice places though.
Ta.Originally Posted by xsnaggle
Residential end of Albany Road? Pretty good. Biggish houses, though a lot of them are flats now. Nice place to live, though parking is a bit tight sometimes. I reckon it's one of the best places in Cardiff to live, if you can afford it. Nice properties, decent shops, close to down, easy motorway access, decent(ish) schools, good pubs when they're open, local bakery. What more could you want?
Couple of decent primary schools in that catchment too if you have kids. Quite a strange area really as one side of Albany rd you have some very smart posh houses and people, the other side you have Claude rd/Connaught to which are full of beds sits/half way houses Etc. Some right loose units wandering around late at night but decent takeaways etc by there...
Death junction , further up , in one of the most multi cultural areasxper head of population in the uk
Traffic accidents or murder? Sounds rough.
It's where executions were carried out, i believe.
Really? I never knew that. Where on Albany Road was this exactly?
https://www.theguardian.com/cardiff/...junction-roath
Where Crwys rd, Albany rd, City rd, Richmond rd and Mackintosh place all meet. I went to Saint Philip Evans school, him and john lloyd were hung, drawn and quartered.
I newr knew about this.
Thanks for posting
Executions were at the time usually carried out at a crossroads outside the city, and this was one of the nearest ones to Cardiff.
And the bodies were buried in the fields next to the crossroads (presumably under part of Roath now)
What's that pub right in the middle ?
I think it turned into a sports bar
There was a good barbers by there , big city fan
The George
I seem to recall reading that the last man hanged there was hanged for stealing bread. The story used to be in the wall of one if the pubs on City road, Poets Corner maybe.
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