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@gomedia91

4 years

Some of my favourite lost architecture of Cardiff - 1) Boots Queen St

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@Nir_Kahn @Sara_Rose_G Nir, Nofar, Will, Eva, Omar.

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Good thing The Vulcan was moved. With it gone, the land has really reached its full potential.

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3 years

I think the people of Roath/Plasnewydd are right to be weary of more demolition.

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Cathays Station being something like the 6th busiest in all of Wales - and it looks like this. Nearly a million users pre-pandemic and you can't even cross between platforms with a wheelchair. How???

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Expectations vs Reality in Cardiff

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3 years

Unless you're prepared to do regular upkeep STOP using white render on new builds next to busy roads in wet climates. Mediterranean?👍 Wales?❌

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7 months

Went with a friend to look at houses in Barry today. Why does every new development feel like you're walking through a tarmaced supermarket car park with a few houses dotted around? Huge swathes of prime land given to developers, and they just churn out lifeless, car dependent 💩

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Living in the "blanket" 20mph Welsh hellscape... 16.5 mile drive from Cardiff Airport in the Vale of Glamorgan to Roath Park in Cardiff Approx 5.4 miles - 70mph 5.3 miles - 50mph 3.5 miles - 40mph 0.5 miles - 30mph 1.6 miles - 20mph Less than 10% of my journey was 20mph...

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Cardiff Queen Street

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Name a bigger downgrade.

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3 years

For new-builds, these in Pontcanna don't look too bad? Never noticed them before.

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Grey plague.

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3 years

Stupid decisions that still make me irrationally angry.

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2 years

Cardiff did until Facebook had a meltdown

Brent Toderian

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2 years

Just stop & think about this — what if YOUR city transformed a key main street (like Montreal has with #MontRoyal , actually one of TEN such street transformations this summer) into a 2.5km long pedestrian promenade & living room with 2700 seats? Thanks for the tip @JeanBeaudoin_ !

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2 years

Get the Cardiff Look

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Lived in Cardiff all my life but cant say Im too familiar with Grangetown, but just finding out theres an old traditional farmhouse just chilling at the end of a row of terraces, Grade II listed with an 800+ year history as a farm right in the middle of Grangetown? Thats amazing!

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2 years

Cardiff deserves a dedicated Tiger Bay/Docklands Museum. A branch of the Museum of Cardiff that just focuses on the full history of the docks, it's role, it's communities, it's redevelopment would be so interesting.

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Huw Edwards speaks to people about identity and what it means to be Welsh. 🆕 Wales: Who Do We Think We Are? With Huw Edwards 📺 Monday, 9pm on BBC One Wales

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4 years

Developer: Lovely street of Grade II listed Victorian houses + theatre you have there in this Conservation Area of yours. Would be a shame if someone built, say, a 17 storey block of student flats on the end, rather than something to scale with the area? Cardiff Council: APPROVE!

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1 year

Perhaps we can go around the corner to…oh never mind.

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4 years

Beautiful shots of Butlins Barry Island in her heyday by Edmund Nagele. As a fan of mid-century design this is very pleasing.

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3 years

The fact that a significant number of people in Cardiff would rather see Castle St revert back to the dirty, loud, polluted, congested, dangerous eyesore in front of our landmarks - and the council has it up for consultation - genuinely worries me for future + how selfish we are.

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1 year

Cardiff has so many examples of beautiful buildings ruined by ugly, cheap shopfronts. St Mary St in particular. Cardiff Market for example could look so much smarter with something like this: traditional shopfronts that properly connect with the upper building. (and awnings)

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8 months

Repurposing the space outside City Hall as a pedestrian square rather than car storage could be nice...

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9 months

Decisions were made...

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4 years

How big of a red flag is it if an architect draws up plans only using Comic-Sans? @PlanningShit

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4 years

Just a reminder that Wellfield Road existed + thrived as a local shopping street before the popularity of the automobile. It’s entire future existence isn’t wholly dependant on the 40 or so parking spaces. Wellfield Road isn’t going anywhere.

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@gomedia91

23 days

Beautiful buildings are still there, hidden under shoddy renovations, cheap shopfronts & junk.

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If we cared about our buildings, shopfronts & high streets...

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1 year

Cathays has some beautiful old houses. It's a shame so many have fallen into the hands of slum landlords and been allowed to decay so badly. This one on Glynrhondda St was formerly a hospital founded by nuns.

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I love Cardiff. Lived here all my life. But walking around lately; seeing flytipping, filth, grotty shops, uncared for houses, crumbling pavements, traffic everywhere. Visible decline. For the 1st time in my life Ive been finding myself asking “is there where I want to live?”.

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3 years

If you want to trigger real anger from me in 3 words - Queen Street Station

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3 years

The off centre window and the 3 scraps of ornamentation left behind really set this one off @PlanningShit

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If we cared about our buildings, shopfronts & high streets...

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3 years

Another landmark Cardiff pub looks to be demolished. The Rompney Castle in Rumney, built in 1872. With tales of it being a favourite among pirates, bought by the wife of an American ambassador + remodelled in the 19th century, a long colourful history set to become rubble.

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@cardiffcouncil In what way is ripping out a kerb-less, long established, shared space street designed to prioritise pedestrians & accessibility - and replacing it with kerbs, a tarmacked road and pushing pedestrians back onto packed, narrow pavements “Levelling Up”? This is a huge step back…

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@gomedia91

3 months

Wellington House in Wimbledon. Retains 80% of the original buildings structural frame. Full demolition isn't always necessary to create something new & beautiful.

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7 months

AI generated Cardiff streets made a bit more Dutch. (Wellfield Rd, Castle St, Bute St, Windsor Pl)

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@gomedia91

3 months

Maybe it's just nostalgia, but Cardiff Council had much better branding in the 90s.

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11 months

So glad we allowed the demolition of the Poets Corner. Look at all the exciting, community strengthening housing & businesses that have thrived over the last 7 years... Those property developers & the planning system really have our best interests at heart 😍

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4 years

This little old building on St Andrews Pl was adorable! Look at that little tower. Would've looked lovely renovated. What replaced it? Not so adorable.

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10 months

It's wild to me that this whole block of Westgate Street, probably some of the most prime space in Cardiff, directly facing the stadium, huge crowds passing by - is wholly for car storage & completely dead at street level. No bars. No restaurants. No shops. Nothing.

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@gomedia91

3 years

One of my favourite comparison shots of Cardiff. Roath Park over 100 years apart. The crown jewel of #roath

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2 months

Reminder that almost half of households in Plasnewydd (48.3%) & nearby Cathays (49.1%) & Adamsdown (48.1%) have NO access to a car. Some of the lowest rates of car ownership not just in Cardiff but in Wales. Improving pedestrian, cycling & public transport is essential & fair.

Dan De'Ath

@DeAthCardiff

2 months

📣 Construction work has begun on the first phase of Cardiff’s Roath Park cycleway. As well as delivering a new cycleway around Roath Park Recreational Ground, the work will see improvements to footways, highway junctions, and bus travel 🧵

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3 years

St Mary St/High St - Cardiff Mid 1990s vs 2021

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Bike shops in Canton, Roath, Grangetown & Adamsdown. Cardiff was a cycling city.

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2 years

Which would you rather spend your time/money in?

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3 years

Newport - Cardiff - Penarth - Barry would be cool

Ben Coates

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3 years

One of the minor delights of the Netherlands is how easily you can cycle not just within cities, but between them. This is between Rotterdam and Delft on the way to the Hague; about an hour’s ride and car-free most of the way

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4 years

15) Poets Corner Pub City Road (Insult to injury, torn down in 2016 for student accommodation which has yet to materialise)

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4 years

61 objections in 4 days to the proposed demolition of the Roath Park pub! Community has sat back + watched too many of our local landmarks be approved for demolition to benefit developers while problems in the area get worse. I think we've had enough now.

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3 months

People discussing the name of this new chip shop on Caroline St. But thing that rubs me the wrong way is the branding. Why try and replicate a London street sign? This is Cardiff. Feels lazy. Caroline St has multiple street sign designs you could pull from if you wanted to.

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2 years

What if every junction in Cardiff looked like this...🤔

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3 years

Easily my favourite example of the decline of the public realm in Cardiff. Anybody who knows this junction on Newport Road knows how bad it is. Just a completely car choked thoroughly unpleasant space. But in 1900? Trees. Benches. Parents not fearing for their kids. Progress eh.

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1 year

I couldn't picture where this photo had been taken, I couldn't recognise any of it. I only figured it out because of the very faint street sign for George St (which no longer exists), and researching the shop Bowles & Son, who owned 9 James St (also no longer exists). Shocking.

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The Gaiety on City Road would have been a perfect location for an O2 Academy type venue. Close to town & students in Cathays, on bus route (& train soon), lots of businesses around it etc. Boost music scene in Cardiff, Cardiff's profile, local economy in Plasnewydd. Instead...

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3) Merchants Exchange

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Meanwhile, major gateway in to Cardiff city centre from the East - a grotty, dark polluted railway bridge with a dirty, faded 20+ year old mural. Great first impression and accurate representation of our capital city. Why nothing has been done I’ll never know. Embarrassing.

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3 months

Lost Cardiff bridges.

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Roath Park lighthouse finally has LIGHT again! #roath (from Julie Feehan on Facebook)

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4 years

2) Queen Street Station

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11 months

Whenever I see the excellent renewal work done on the Welsh Streets in Liverpool, I often find myself thinking of old Butetown. I wonder what Butetown would have been like if, instead of flattening everything, we repaired the houses, kept the streets, didnt scatter the community

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2 months

Whatever this style is called (boxes w/ obnoxious, loud, cheap cladding arranged in a way to give you a migraine & every window misaligned) that has been popular for the last 15 years or so. Can we stop? Seems its fading out in favour of brick, but Cardiff is still building it.

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3 years

Rough mock of what I'd love to see around the parks in Roath. For drivers, residents parking bays. For pedestrians, cars off the pavement. For cyclists, a segregated cycleway. One-way system with narrower lanes to end the Roath Park Speedway. Something like that would be great.

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Read the apartment block at junction of Lower Cathedral Rd & Cowbridge Rd E has been approved. Row of shops on the corner don't have much architectural merit - but the 4 houses approved for demolition (just outside conservation area) is a terrible waste. Restore, adapt & reuse.

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When did we stop caring?

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Grey plague

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4 years

Just spent ~£100 on Wellfield Road this morning. Parked in the Library car park after getting my MOT, walked down, got cakes/coffee/sandwiches/veg/pastries, went to the bank/pharmacy, nice to chat with the traders I know. Lots of outdoor seating. Go down there and support them!

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Pedestrianise the road/car park outside Cardiff City Hall & Museum please.

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1 year

1892 plans for Roath Park Wild Gardens, Lake, Pleasure Gardens & Recreation Ground.

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7 months

Roath in Cardiff - where this was partially filmed - has been 20mph since 2014, almost a DECADE ago 🙄

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7 months

Here's how people across Wales feel about the 20mph default speed limit one month on

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Spotted this lovely old shop sign on City Road, revealed after modern signage was removed. 160 City Road - Newburys Stores

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Beauty and the Beast

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@HateNewbuild I think these are some of the better renovations of post-war I've seen.

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Sophia Gardens - Cardiff's oldest public park - 1898 vs Today

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Plenty of cycling going on in Cardiff in 1931.

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3 years

Some amateur city planning I was working on a while ago, redesigning the bottom of Alfred St on Albany Rd in Roath. Only real purpose is as a rat-run, cars dangerously swing in off Albany into the path of pedestrians. Close it + it could be a much more pleasant/useful/safer space

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Newport Road before it became "Newport Road".

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18) Loudoun Square - Heart of the old multicultural Tiger Bay. Seen as a slum so demolished (despite originally built for the wealthy) and replaced with tower blocks. One of the oldest and most diverse communities in the world at the time, split up and scattered across the city.

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Visited a friend in Grangetown today, I honestly forget what a fantastic job was done with the streets in the Greener Grangetown scheme. Can get frustrated with some of the decision making in Cardiff sometimes, but this was a slam dunk.

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Albany Road had street trees. It needs them back.

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28) Queen Street Station - Original covered roof

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It's a minor thing, but I hate how the vehicle damaged paving on the corner of Queen/St John/Castle St has just been tarmacked over rather than been relaid. Paving is important when it comes to signifying pedestrian spaces & gives certainty that pedestrians have priority.

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8 months

Well… Great job everyone. Outstanding work. A complete sh*t show from beginning to miserable end.

paul - cardiff

@cardiffwalesmap

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At last activity at Guildford Crescent, & 1st job seems to be demolishing the old buildings facades😲. They are considered to be in such a bad condition that they need to be cleared & new build will have a new 'replica' of the original building fronts 🤔. Anyway work underway 👍

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14) The Wharf in Atlantic Wharf. Probably one of the newest buildings on my list having been built in 1990.

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Imagine these around #roath (particularly the streets north of Albany Road). Reduces rat running, safer cycling, less pollution/noise, add green space, encourages walking instead of driving, creates a community space, minimal impact on parking etc. Would make a massive difference

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5) Fire Service Headquarters Westgate St

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Mounting the kerb is all the off-roaring that Range Rover will ever do no doubt The median on Clive St in Grangetown is such a waste. Kick the cars off + enhance it with more planting, just some hardy low maintenance shrubs + grasses maybe?

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40 years late... but glad the 7th busiest train station in Wales is getting it's first lift!! The existing, rusting, wobbly footbridge at Cathays will also get demolished (thank god)

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Cathays Station being something like the 6th busiest in all of Wales - and it looks like this. Nearly a million users pre-pandemic and you can't even cross between platforms with a wheelchair. How???

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If I was given access to a time machine and told I could go back in time to prevent the destruction of ONE building in Cardiff (out of the MANY sadly lost), I think it may have to be the Merchants Exchange. The Pierhead Building's older cousin would have made an amazing hotel.

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“Well everyone will be driving electric cars/vans eventually so they should just reopen Castle Street”

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The stages of Cardiff Queen Street station

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Improvements to Roath I'd like to see...

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What are they going to look like in 100 years? (If they haven’t been torn down by then) Meanwhile, houses in Cathays, Adamsdown, Cathays, built 100 years ago ageing gracefully…

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Nice to see one architectural gem in Cardiff get the good ending atleast...

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Areas of Cardiff w lowest car ownership (0 car household) - 47.6% Riverside South - 48.1% Adamsdown - 48.3% Plasnewydd - 49.1% Cathays South Areas w highest NO2 pollution in Wales (mean NO2) - 13.77 South Riverside - 15.64 Adamsdown - 14.9 Plasnewydd - 14.76 Cathays South 🤔

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- The cheap, poorly installed shopfront ready to fall & injure someone - The phone repair/vape shop - The closed down bank - The crumbling uneven pavement - The car dented pedestrian safety barrier - The bag of rubbish dumped on the pavement "Why arent people using the High St?"

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Holy moly. Hope no one was hurt. Albany Rd Roath

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Always thought Bute East Dock had so much potential. Clearly plans for it to be mixed use, something like the Royal Albert Dock. The Wharf half way down. County Hall. Paths & lighting all the way around. Hub of redevelopment. But its lifeless. A mish mash of mostly residential.

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13) Crwys Road Board School

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24) Roath Park Bandstand. Originally located in the grassy area to the west of where the playground is today. - In trying to pinpoint the exact location for this tweet, I found you could see the outline of the bandstand in old satellite imagery during the 2018 heatwave.

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I will never not be angry about the demolition of the Merchants Exchange

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4 years

"Cardiff needs to stop closing roads to traffic. Theyre making life hard for motorists. Waste of money. Everything was fine before" Cardiff before:

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3 years

Cardiff Council really putting out a strong message to the world, showing their commitment to leading on climate change + active travel by…*checks notes*… ripping out widened pavements + bee friendly bus stops to accommodate private cars. Just on optics alone this is a mess.

Hamish Belding

@BikeWalkScoot

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Bye ‘Bee Bus Stop’! Sad to see this being removed to accommodate an extra traffic lane as @cardiffcouncil prepare to reopen Castle Street for private vehicles. A poor message to be sending out when we should be prioritising sustainable transport… 🐝🚌👋🏻🤷🏼‍♂️ #transporthierarchy

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