Contributions of the group Caerdydd / Cardiff (Cymru / Wales)

Brains

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:46:47 +0000

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Not many tall chimneys in use these days. Brains Brewery in Cardiff was clearly busy when I spotted it.

The Great Western seagull

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:39:40 +0000

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Ready for the off at Cardiff.

Great Western terracotta

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 05:47:20 +0000

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Cardiff Central Station was rebuilt by the Great Western Railway between 1932 an 1934 in an art-deco style. Much still remains including the fine terracotta names on the platform structures.

Grangetown Station, Picture 2, Grangetown, Glamorgan, Wales (UK), 2014

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:07:42 +0000

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This is the entrance to the station, which is, as far as I know, up on that bridge to the right. The sculpture on the wall looks really 1970's, even Communist, although in this location that would be virtually impossible. In truth, a lot of similar artwork existed in America at the time. However, I know next to nothing about its actual origins.

Grangetown Station, Grangetown, Glamorgan, Wales (UK), 2014

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:07:40 +0000

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This visit to Grangetown was completely unplanned. I was running an errand with one of my friends, and just spotted this BR-era "barbed wire" station sign. To avoid confusion, perhaps, most of these signs have survived, not only in situ, but also on maps, and the logo also still appears on tickets and in timetables. Grangetown is located south of Cardiff, and is often counted as part of the city, although the maps I've seen are confusing so I don't know if it technically is Cardiff.

Brains Brewery Silhouette, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (UK), 2014

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:07:43 +0000

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I took this on my way to Cardiff Central Station. The old Great Western Mainline is on that viaduct you can see on the right, and you can see a steam-era water tower on the left. I've taken shots from this angle several times before. This wasn't actually a sunset, but a sunrise, as I had to get a train very early in the morning in order to get the Eurostar in London.

Trees Reflected In The River Taff, Cardiff, Wales(UK), 2007

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:42:01 +0000

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I did a shot shoot when I was in Parc Bute, or Bute Park, Cardiff's main park, and part of this involved shooting some mediocre landscapes. :-) This one is perhaps my favorite, and I still may post-process it a little bit. I just don't have the time right now.

Cardiff Market Entrance, Cardiff, Wales(UK), 2008

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:54:43 +0000

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This is the entrance to Cardiff Market, which is a shopping passage, basically an early mall, constructed in 1891. I hate malls usually, but I like this one, since it's in a city centre, it primarily caters to walkers, and it looks nice. :-)

Parliamentary train?

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:34:46 +0000

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Arriva Trains Wales operates a Cardiff to Holyhead service linking major towns in North and South Wales and is heavily supported by the Welsh Assembly. A morning train for Holyhead is seen departing Wrexham General whilst I was waiting to catch the Wrexham and Shropshire Railways train to London.

Cardiff Castle, View from the Street, 2004

nobody@ipernity.com (LaurieAnnie) — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:27:21 +0000

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Cardiff Castle (Welsh: Castell Caerdydd) is a medieval castle and Victorian revival mansion, transformed from a Roman fort, in the capital of Wales.

There were three successive Roman forts on the site of Cardiff Castle, most notably a late 3rd century structure, some walls of which can still be seen today. One of the gates was reconstructed in Victorian times.

Cardiff Castle was built for Robert Fitzhamon in 1091, on the site of and incorporating some walls of the previous Roman fort, although it was mostly of timber in the usual motte and bailey style. His son-in-law, Robert of Gloucester, rebuilt in stone, including the twelve-sided keep which can still be seen today. Robert, Duke of Normandy who was imprisoned there by his younger brother, King Henry I from 1106 until 1134. In 1158 it was the scene for a daring kidnapping carried out by one Ifor Bach (Ivor the Little). In the Welsh Revolt of 1183, the castle was attacked and much damaged, but an expected siege nearly a hundred years later, during the reign of Llywelyn the Last, never emerged. Gilbert de Clare had refortified many of the defences in readiness.

The Despenser family held the castle throughout the 14th century. In 1317, Llywelyn Bren was imprisoned there for revolting against the English and executed in a most humiliating manner. Four years later, the castle was taken by a combined force of marcher lords attempting to overthrow King Edward II. During Owain Glyndŵr's reign, his supporters took the castle in 1404 and set the city alight. Later it came into the possession of the Beauchamp Earls of Warwick, who built the living quarters along the western wall including the Octagon Tower. King Henry VII gave it to his uncle, Jasper Tudor in 1488. By 1550, the castle was held by the Herberts who added further embellishments. They held the castle for the King during the Civil War, but it was eventually taken by Parliamentary forces. In 1776, it passed to the Earl of Bute. The family made various alterations, inlcuding landscaping by Capability Brown.

In the early 19th century the castle was enlarged and refashioned in an early Gothic Revival style for John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute by Henry Holland. But its transformation began in 1868 when the 3rd Marquess commissioned William Burges to undertake a massive rebuilding which turned the castle into a 19th century fantasy of a medieval palace, with a series of rooms that, perhaps, constitute the highest achievement of later Victorian Gothic Revival design. The coming together of the Marquess, enormously rich, early Catholic convert and steeped in a romantic vision of the mediaeval world and Burges, pre-eminent art-architect, committed Goth and hugely-talented designer forged one of the great patron/architect relationships and led to a succession of dazzling architectural triumphs of which Cardiff Castle is the greatest of all.

Rebuilding began with the Clock Tower, planned 1866-1868 and begun in 1869. The towers continue westward, the Tank Tower, the Guest Tower, the Herbert Tower and the Beauchamp Tower, part Burges, part Holland, part 15th and 16th century, creating a skyline, best observed from Bute Park, that echoes Burges' unbuilt design for the Law Courts and presents a visually-stunning image of a mediaeval city.

Within the Castle, the succession of sumptuous apartments; the Winter and Summer Smoking Rooms, the Chaucer Room, the Arab Room, Lord Bute's Bedroom, the Roof Garden, repeatedly illustrates Burges' supreme skill as an art-architect. Taking complete control of the designing, the building, the decoration and the furnishing of the apartments, and using his favoured team of Nicholls, Crace, Lonsdale, Burges created a suite of rooms in a unique Gothic Revival style that is unrivalled.

The castle was later given to the city of Cardiff by the Bute family in 1947. It is now a popular tourist attraction, and houses a regimental museum in addition to the ruins of the old castle and the Victorian reconstruction. It sits in the expansive grounds of Bute Park.

The castle has hosted a number o

St. John the Baptist Church, Cardiff, Wales(UK), 2008

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:54:43 +0000

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St. John the Baptist Parish Church was supposedly built during the 12th Century, although most of the currently surviving structure dates to the 15th Century. It is still an active Anglican (I think) church, open every day.

28 Mackintosh Place, Cardiff

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:43:08 +0000

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Where my Dad grew up in Cardiff - down (or up) the road from Lipskin's (flikr friend's) dad.
What a small world!
My Dad lived here later though - in the 1920s.
This was taken in 1972 - and it's looking a little worse for wear. It's more poshed up now.