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Original placard for Clarence Bridge - photo courtesy of Rita Spinola

Grangetown

Linked to Butetown by Clarence Bridge, this district owes its rise and fall, and rise again, to the docks and Cardiff Bay. Once bursting with dock workers, houses are now being bought by young professionals.


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Tales Of The City

Your tales and memories of Grangetown.

Panoramic

Clive Street
Meet the Neighbours
Clive Street
See a view of Clive Street from where the 'Nash' School once stood.


Grangetown Baptist Church
Clive Street
See a view of Grangetown from the church


Desi Inn
Clive Street
See a view of Grangetown at the junction with Ferry Road.


Audio

The Local Historian
Ray Shaw
Clive Street
"Clive Street originates from the family of the Earl of Plymouth."


Renovating Grange Farm
Nigel Sutton
Clive Street
"It's amazing that Grange Farm wasn't knocked down."


The Veteran
Len Smith
Clive Street
"They looked after us as well as we looked after them."


The Shopkeeper
Wayne Mason
Clive Street
"There's not enough police in the area."


The Pastor
Fred Adorkorbidji
Clive Street
"It's time to bring back a little of what was given to us long ago."


The Pastor's Wife
Aba Adorkorbidji
Clive Street
"Back home I was part of the ministry."


The Dinner Lady
Rita Spinola
Clive Street
"What's the magic word? Abracadabra."


The Mother
Lyn Smith
Clive Street
"There's not many areas left to play."


Doris the Milklady
Eileen Breslin
Clive Street
"She'd always have gangs of kids on the back of her float."


Video

Last Letter
Tahir Elsarrag
Ferry Road
"How does anyone know how long we've got?"


Story

The Retired Couple
Mr & Mrs Mannay
Clive Street
"There weren't many coloured faces to be seen...I was one of the few."


School Days
Terry
Penarth Road
"They say you never forget a good teacher. Bill Norton was one of the best!"


The Kid From Nin
Terry Lee
Penarth Road
"It was standard thinking then that attending the 'pictures' too much encouraged delinquency."


The Red House
Terry Lee
Ferry Road
"They've mashed the Red House but they can't mash my memories"


Grangetown School
Winifred Byrne
Lucknow Street
"I remember being sat on a large wooden rocking horse and hanging on to its mane for dear life."


Our Corner
Roger Smith
Stockland Street/Paget Street
"It was home from school, up to the corner. In for tea and back up to the corner till bedtime..."


Off to school in the snow
Sylvia Berry
Lansdowne Primary School
I cannot remember why I was the only one sent to school that day...


Subway
Barbara Morley
Cornwall Street
"The light bulbs were always broken and I would be terrified to go through it."


Photo

Clark's Pies
Bromsgrove Street
Celebrate 50 years of classic Cardiff baking.


Red House
Terry Rickards
Ferry Road


Brains bridge
Twm Davies
Clare Road
"It's Brains you want."


Iron Rooms
Sandy Leitch
Paget Street
"I think one of the women is my great aunt."


Black & White Cafe
Paul Farrugia
Penarth Road


City skyline from Grangetown
Kim James




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