Tiger Bay/Butetown/Cardiff Bay: 'How Cardiff’s Thriving Multicultural Hub Was Crushed'

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Interesting article here:

The destruction of first Tiger Bay community and then Butetown is perhaps the most heinous example of social, ethnic and cultural cleansing in modern Wales. The area’s racially mixed residents and their libertarian views on race, marriage, sex and hedonism, had irked the authorities for 100 years.

First, they turned their back on the area – leaving it to crumble. Then, the diggers rolled in – encouraged by local politicians at the behest of wealthy businesspeople – and destroyed an area that was an example to all of us.

“Tiger Bay was. in the simplest words possible a symbol of racial, ethnic, religious and ecumenical harmony”, concludes Sinclair. “My mother used to say that the League of Nations could learn a thing or two from Tiger Bay.”

LOST CITIES: How Cardiff’s Thriving Multicultural Hub Was Crushed

Chris Sullivan delves into the history of one of Britain's first successful multicultural communities and the authorities determined to destroy it

bylinetimes.com

 

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If you haven't listened to the Shreds podcast, it's definitely worth a listen BBC Sounds - Shreds: Murder in the dock - Downloads

It focuses on the miscarriage of justice suffered by the Cardiff Five, but it also encompasses the official disdain for Tiger Bay and how redevelopment and racist policing was used against it.