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.
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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.
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
Really? I never knew that. Where on Albany Road was this exactly?
https://www.theguardian.com/cardiff/...junction-roath
I went to Saint Philip Evans school, him and john lloyd were hung, drawn and quartered.[/QUOTE]
What did they do wrong, did they fail their 11 plus or were they caught having a sly one behind the bike sheds?
Lived on Ninian Road for a few years and loved the area. Plenty of decent shops, pubs (The Albany was my favourite) and coffee shops if you like that sort of thing. An easy walk into town and would even stroll to watch the city in nice weather.
Hung until they were nearly dead, entrails drawn from them, then arms and legs tied to four horses and the four horses then galloping up the different streets of the junction, what a sight that must have been, there’s even a spare street in case one of the others were busy
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.