Contributions of the group Morgannwg / Glamorgan (Cymru / Wales)

Fireplace

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 06:14:33 +0000

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The Grade One listed Pierhead Building in Cardiff, built in 1897 for the Bute Docks Company to the design of the English architect William Frame is a terracotta palace. Inside the building is just as lavishly filled with terracotta as the exterior. This fireplace is an astonishing example of the art, although I doubt it was ever intended to hold a fire with those tiles in the back. The terracotta was supplied by Ruabon based brickmakers JC Edwards & Co. and the building is now a visitor and education centre for the National Assembly.

Portland House

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 07:21:40 +0000

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The Grade II listed Portland House on Bute Street in Cardiff was formerly a bank. It was designed by architects F.C.R Palmer & W.F.C Holden and built in 1926. At the time it was labelled as one of the finest buildings of its kind in South Wales. The exterior has this bronze figure over the entrances; this is the example on West Bute Street. The building is now used as an events space.

Lost power

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 11:37:23 +0000

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The closed and partially demolished
Aberthaw B Power Station seen from Watchet. It was commissioned in 1971 and had a generating capacity of 1,560 MW. Closure came on 31 March 2020. The nearby cement works can be seen to the right, peeping over the mound of ash.

Pebble kilns

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 07:16:38 +0000

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The Aberthaw limekilns were built in 1888 to burn blue lias limestone pebbles collected from the foreshore. The original works comprised two pots each with a diameter of 18ft and a capacity of 300 tons. The daily combined output was 40 tons of burned lime. After 1900 a pair of large oval pot draw kilns was added at the rear. The kilns were abandoned in 1926.

Port Of Cardiff

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 07:45:31 +0000

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Offloading oil in Roath Dock, Cardiff. The Bro Developer is a 11,344 GRT chemical/oil tanker built in 2007 and owned by Maersk Tankers.

Welcome to Aberthaw Quarry

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:31:38 +0000

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Aberthaw Quarry supplies Blue Lias limestone and shale to the nearby cement plant via this conveyor.

Aberthaw B

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 05:41:33 +0000

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Aberthaw B Power Station, was latterly fired with biomass as well as coal. It was commissioned in 1971 and had a generating capacity of 1,560 MW. Closure came on 31 March 2020.

1893

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 09:47:04 +0000

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Sometimes you have to look up high to see the interesting architectural detail of a place. This is on High Street in the centre of Cardiff and this building has a modern bar frontage at ground level and a painted first floor facia. The top two storeys reveal the red brick construction with lots of terracotta decoration. So much to see here including the cream decorated panel which very few will ever notice, and also the intertwined numbers of the date of construction in the top circle.

Pierhead detail

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:15:31 +0000

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Terracotta at its very best in this detail on the Grade One listed Pierhead Building in Cardiff, built in 1897 for the Bute Docks Company. The terracotta was supplied by Ruabon based brickmakers JC Edwards & Co.

Packet Hotel

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 07:09:19 +0000

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The Packet on Bute Street is one of the last remaining traditional pubs left in Cardiff.

Steel plant

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 06:39:17 +0000

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A lot to see in this view over the mills at Port Talbot steelworks to the coke ovens in the background.

Bertie Pit

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 07:17:32 +0000

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The Bertie shaft, Lewis Merthyr Colliery was completed c1880. Bertie and the adjacent Trefor shafts were sunk by William Thomas Lewis, later Lord Merthyr and named after his sons. By 1896 there were 1532 men employed producing coal for the then named Merthyr Navigation Collieries. Bertie pit produced steam coal and Trefor pit produced house coal.Coal winding finished at this shaft with closure of the pit taking place in 1983. The colliery site now forms part of Rhondda Heritage Park.

Moorish

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 05:33:26 +0000

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You might be expecting this example of Moorish architecture to be in Spain, but it is actually on Queen Street in Cardiff. The building seems to date from around 1870.

Five in a row

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 06:25:23 +0000

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Chimneypots on a building in Bute Street, Cardiff. A nice matching set.

Established 1857

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:54:22 +0000

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Labouring men on the front of the former Co-operative shop on St Mary Street in Cardiff. The Co-operative Wholesale Society in Cardiff was established in but this shop was completed after the former town hall on this site was demolished in 1914.

Aberthaw

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 05:37:26 +0000

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The Aberthaw and Bristol Channel Portland Cement Company was established in 1912 by the Beynon family. The works started in 1914 with two small wet process kilns with a production capacity of 120 tonnes per day each. A third wet kiln was added after the Second World War, and a fourth in 1957. This brought clinker capacity to 1200 tonnes per day. In 1967, Kiln 5, a much more efficient dry process kiln, was installed. The wet process kilns were decommissioned in 1974, and Kiln 6 - also a dry kiln was started in 1975. Kiln 6 remains in operation today.

In 1919 the company took over the nearby Aberthaw and Rhoose Point Portland and Lime Company. Blue Circle bought the two sites at Aberthaw and Rhoose in 1983. In 1987 Rhoose Works closed. Lafarge Cement UK bought Blue Circle industries PLC in 2001, creating the largest cement maker in the world. Cement from the site is carried to destinations by Road and Rail (rail services being provided by Freightliner heavy haul and Colas Rail over the Vale of Glamorgan Line).

Thanks to Wikipedia for the history.

Lime works

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:21:39 +0000

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Dereliction amidst vast piles of lime at the abandoned lime works at Cefn Cribwr outside Kenfig.

Aberthaw cement works

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 07:06:38 +0000

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Principality Time

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:56:55 +0000

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Principality Buildings, Queen Street, Cardiff.

Founded in 1860 in Cardiff by William Sanders as a mutual building society, the Principality Building Society is the largest building society in Wales and the sixth largest in the United Kingdom. In 1914 the Principality Buildings were built to house the society headquarters and this building remained in that role until 1992 when Principality House next door in The Friary was opened. The building still houses a branch of the Building Society whilst the rest is used for a variety of commercial activities including a restaurant and a Travelodge

Castle Arcade

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 06:36:34 +0000

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The entrance block to the Castle Arcade off High Street in Cardiff. Built in 1887 in cream brick, I thought at first that the decorative work was in terracotta but closer inspection shows it to be painted bath stone. It is listed Grade II*.