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[teqniq]

Outside a pub not very far from me. Absolute quality.

 

[1927]

Outside a pub not very far from me. Absolute quality.

Have you seen the Jailhouse Rock one? I was sent them yesterday by a friend who drinks there. I’ll try and upoload it.

 

[teqniq]

No. * Awaits more hilarity *

Hmm found it but can't embed the vid.

 

[teqniq]

Fucking property developers.

Another Treasured Cardiff Music Venue Is Under Threat & People Are Being Urged to Save It -

Reading Time: 5 minutesUPDATED PLANNING APPLICATION COULD THREATEN THE EXISTENCE OF THE TRAMSHED AS A MUSIC VENUE COMPANY BEHIND THE PLANS CONDEMNED AS “GREEDY” FOR PRIORITISING PROFITS OVER THE FUTURE OF THE VENUE AND LOCAL RESIDENTS CARDIFF’S MUSIC SCENE HAS BEEN UNDER THREAT FROM DEVELOPERS...

www.voice.wales

 

[editor]

1936 - Photographer John Maltby.

CARDIFF - ODEON

More here: https://www.facebook.com/welshcinemaphotohistory/

 

[editor]

Some pics from earlier this week

Cardiff in lockdown – stations, street photos and night scenes, July 2020 -

Although the lockdown is slowly easing in Wales, Cardiff remains strangely quiet with many of its once-bustling streets remaining empty. Here's some photos from an (essential) trip earlier this week. Paddington station was pretty much deserted apart from staff members and a handful of...

www.urban75.org

 

[Bollox]

Ello, Cardiffian most of me Life, missing it a bit so great to see some of the pictures here.
Great memories of Llanrumney where I grew up and Splott, Adamsdown and Roath where I spent most of my twenties thirties and forties
I feel homesick now


all the best, Bollox

 

[Bollox]

Some pics from my last visit a few years ago:





all the best, Bollox

 

[Supine]

Armed police raid the wrong house

Cardiff armed police in 'terrifying' raid on the wrong house

The officers left after saying sorry to the residents of the property.

www.bbc.com

 

[editor]

So John has been ousted

 

[Bollox]

Hey Wankface, a temporary ban and warning for personal attacks eh, and yet all the regular fuctkards in here call anyone they disagree with a cunt with complete impunity
you load of shit for brains arseholes need a check up from the neck up.

Bbye twat

 

[editor]

Hey Wankface, a temporary ban and warning for personal attacks eh, and yet all the regular fuctkards in here call anyone they disagree with a cunt with complete impunity
you load of shit for brains arseholes need a check up from the neck up.

Bbye twat

Ok bye!

FLOUNCE RATING: A SOLID 70%

 

[krtek a houby]

Hey Wankface, a temporary ban and warning for personal attacks eh, and yet all the regular fuctkards in here call anyone they disagree with a cunt with complete impunity
you load of shit for brains arseholes need a check up from the neck up.

Bbye twat

Ok bye!

FLOUNCE RATING: A SOLID 70%

He met his Waterloo.

 

[wayward bob]

one of the sycamores on roath rec has come down.

it hasn't even been particularly windy lately. giving the benches along there a miss for the time being

 

[editor]

Goodbye Roath Park pub, hello flats

Plans to replace pub with more flats

The former Roath Park pub on City Road could be knocked down

www.walesonline.co.uk

 

[Plumdaff]

At this point you have to assume Cardiff Council planning department just really hate anything that makes the city distinctive or a pleasant place to be and completely love lego. As one of the objections went

"Aren't there enough new flat-pack student apartment builds waiting for repurposing on City Road already, without demolishing what little Victoriana remains?"

 

[nogojones]

At this point you have to assume Cardiff Council planning department just really hate anything that makes the city distinctive or a pleasant place to be and completely love lego. As one of the objections went

I think it's more about their love of backhanders

 

[ddraig]

Such a lovely design on the new plans
Looks like 20 odd flats, madness.
Don't know if they are kite flying and will reduce the height?
Taller buildings on city road in both directions tho...

Good sized function room in that pub, have DJ'd there a couple of times for events

 

[teqniq]

 

[ddraig]

Petition won't do much if anything

Objecting to the planning application might do more

 

[editor]

Fascinating aerial view of Cardiff Central/General from 1933.

 

[editor]

This looks to be a good resource:

https://twitter.com/CardiffCivicSoc

 

[editor]

Barry Island station is going to go all posh

Barry Island Station Marketed for redevelopment | Bro Radio 98.1 - 106.1fm

Bro Radio is the local radio station for the Vale of Glamorgan. Broadcasting the latest local news, events and information to the County.

broradio.fm

 

[editor]

Postcard views of Whitchurch

 

[ddraig]

Apparently that application for the Roath park has been withdrawn

This looks a bit of a mess

Cardiff Bay: Seven year 'masterplan' for Atlantic Wharf unveiled

The Atlantic Wharf development would include a new 15,000 indoor arena and over 1,000 homes.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[wayward bob]

Apparently that application for the Roath park has been withdrawn

really? thank fuck prospect of significant inescapable works was looming pretty heavily for us.

 

[ddraig]

really? thank fuck prospect of significant inescapable works was looming pretty heavily for us.

Yup
If you click "further information" on this link it says "withdrawn by applicant" 20/01952/MJR | PROPOSED DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BUILDING, WITH CONSTRUCTION OF MULTI- LEVELLED BUILDING, WITH RESIDENTIAL UNITS ON UPPER FLOORS AND RETAIL USE ON GROUND FLOOR AND BASEMENT | THE ROATH PARK, 170 CITY ROAD, ROATH, CARDIFF, CF24 3JE

e2a it actually says it under summary

 

[editor]

This is an interesting piece - and this quote from 45 years ago is still relevant today:

“Tiger Bay is gone,” wrote the author of the piece, Tim Justin Robinson. “The name remains, the legends will persist, the stories will be told. But Butetown – the new redeveloped parts and the as yet undeveloped part – have swallowed the Tiger, or perhaps it would be better to say the Tiger has crept away to hide in people’s hearts, a memory of an unruly but loveable rogue. And I can’t help feeling that if, in order to give people better housing we may have to destroy the links generations of people have built up; if in destroying a jungle we can offer a desert in its place; then we should be prepared to accept the consequences. It may be that when people are not consulted, when they feel abused, yet stay a community, then they may revive that Tiger and turn it on us – we who tell them we know best, but will not join them in their redeveloped paradise.”

And:

“The first recorded landing of a free black man was in Cardiff docks.”

History that really matters in Tiger Bay, where nations lived as one

Black history is vital and in this week, of all weeks, that must be appreciated

www.walesonline.co.uk

 

[editor]

Yup
If you click "further information" on this link it says "withdrawn by applicant" 20/01952/MJR | PROPOSED DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BUILDING, WITH CONSTRUCTION OF MULTI- LEVELLED BUILDING, WITH RESIDENTIAL UNITS ON UPPER FLOORS AND RETAIL USE ON GROUND FLOOR AND BASEMENT | THE ROATH PARK, 170 CITY ROAD, ROATH, CARDIFF, CF24 3JE

e2a it actually says it under summary

Listen to this bollocks:

Ventura Developments, a property construction company from Wales, submitted the plans in September but has seen a major backlash from both from the local community and councillors.

The company stated it designed the building to “purposely contrast” with the Victorian architecture of City Road and cited the similarly styled City Heights, a student housing block.

Roath Park Pub demolition plan scrapped after community outcry - The Cardiffian

THE planned demolition of the Roath Park Pub has been suspended after a planning application to turn the historic building into a seven-storey block of flats was withdrawn.

cardiffjournalism.co.uk

 

[ddraig]

oh dear, what a shit explanation of the dull identikit proposal