Cardiff street scenes
Some snapshots from a walk around my home town.
(Words/photos © urban75, Jan/March 2007)
More pictures taken around Cardiff city centre.
![Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-10.jpg)
Jewellers, St Mary Street.
![St John's Church, Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-18.jpg)
St John's Church, St. John Square. The church dates back to 1180, with the perpendicular tower (boasting a peal of ten bells) being added on the 15th Century.
![St John's Church, Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-11.jpg)
St John's Church - in June 2005 the Vicar Keith Kimber installed a wireless broadband hotspot for worshippers giving the congregation access to a quiet BT Openzone corner where they can send or receive e-mails or surf the Internet.
![Entrance to St John's Church, Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-17.jpg)
Entrance to St John's Church.
![Owain Glyndwr pub, Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-12.jpg)
Owain Glyndwr pub, St Johns Square. One of the oldest pubs in Cardiff, the bar was known for years as The Buccaneer and used to be quite a lively number too.
![Cardiff Castle, Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-13.jpg)
Cardiff Castle.
![Cardiff Castle, Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-14.jpg)
Seagull over Duke Street Arcade.
![Queen Street station, Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-15.jpg)
Queen Street station.
![Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-29.jpg)
I found this engraved - and quite probably fairly ancient - tribute to the joys of the mighty Status Quo high up on Craig Llanishen.
![Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-30.jpg)
A rather understated expression of hate, written in what looks like Tippex, Caerphilly Road.
![Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-19.jpg)
Statue of Aneurin Bevan, the son of a Tredegar miner, and the man credited with creating the National Health Service. Bevan died in 1960, but is remembered as one of the political greats - so much so that he won a 2004 online poll to name the greatest Welsh Hero of all time.
![Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-20.jpg) The Victorian elegance of the 136-room Thistle Hotel, Queen St.
![Coryton Halt, Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-24.jpg)
End of the line, Coryton Halt.
See: History of the Cardiff Railway and the Coryton Branch Line
![Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-26.jpg)
Looking north up St Mary Street on the way to Cardiff Central station (old Cardiffians will still know it as 'Cardiff General' - the name changed in 1973).
![Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-27.jpg)
Cardiff Central station. For years, the 'Great Western Railway' stonework was covered up with a cheap bit of boarding declaring the station's new owners.
![Cardiff photos, Cardiff, Wales, January 2007](images/cardiff-photos-28.jpg)
Opened by the South Wales Railway in 1850, it was taken over by the Great Western Railway who rebuilt it in 1932. Thankfully, these unusual tiled platform signs have survived recently modernisation.
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