Photos of my own little corner of the world - South Wales

[TizMe]

Nice photos mate.
I come from the New South Wales.
Must go to see the "Old" South Wales one day.

[Bobcock]

You NH types aren't too bright are you.It has a little to do with the TV coverage old son.Can't see on tele..then don't know.Simple as a Welsh front rower really.

If I had.a clue what you weretrying to say Idrespond.simple realyy.

[bobo746]

Nice place mate bit to cold for me in winter though

[nidhogg]

The indoor market. Can you tell me what it was originally built for?

Twas always a market? Opened in May 1891, on the site of a market around since 1700s.

Nice site:

Cardiff Market Website



Lets see - cardiff - Brains (dark for me), Howells girls (I was a lot younger), Bumpers Night club in Castle Arcade, The Maltsters Arms, Howells girls....

[Bobcock]

Bumpers night club.......Jesus, I'd forgotten that place existed.....

I always preferred Bud morgans in that Arcade and Sound Advice.

[Red dragon]

Jason Statham filming in Windsor Place

Jul 29 2010 By Kathryn Williams
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Hollywood hard-man Jason Statham was caught flexing his motorcycling skills on the streets of Cardiff today.
The star of The Transporter and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and former boyfriend of Kelly Brook, was in the city to shoot a scene from 1980s based film, The Killer Elite, which is based on explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ novel, The Feather Men.
The Windsor Place area of the city was cordoned off to film a scene involving a robbery at a travel agents.


The film also stars Hollywood heavy-weight Robert De Niro and British actor Clive Owen, early reports on social networking website Twitter stated that De Niro and Owen had joined Statham in Cardiff but neither of the stars were at the filming.
The street was transformed into 1980s London, as stunned on-lookers tried to get a glimpse of the Hollywood star.

[taffyapple]

bart you missed a few places bute street custom house ship and pilot the star 5bob to get in incl.spam/chips .the bombay curry house and not forgeting the most famous place of all caroline st.those where the days sitting in the gutter eating chips/gravy after a skin full of scrumpy. catching the milk train home then shitting youself just when the gravy joined the scrumpy i come from the valleys you know.

[Bobcock]

I've been a bit fed up of processing photographs for the last few months, too many rugby tournaments etc to do. But at last I have the mood to start working through some of the photographs in the backlog.

I had to spend a few weeks at home in South wales yet again earlier in the year, but luckily the family joined me for some of it so we did a few things....

As usual the first thing to do is watch some rugby so my eldest and I trotted off to Swansea to see the Ospreys play the Cardiff Blues...errr Pinks, I'm sure LC or one of the Kiwis can name the 3 New Zealanders close to the ball....actually they probably can't unless they are from their own eyed provincial side....



Former welsh captain Ryan Jones brings the ball down from the line out.....quite a height....



The Liberty Stadium, the corresponding game in cardiff was a sell out, but they have no brains, money or prospects in Swansea and anyway, most of them are too thick to find their way to the stadium....



Next is the River Usk behind Rodney Parade, the mouth of this river just down the way has the second largest tidal range in the world behind some place in canada that nobody in newport has ever heard of.....we are at this river because we are off to watch more rugby....



Next stop is rodney Parade itself, the best place in Wales to watch rugby in my opinion, though they have refurbed 50% of the ground so whether it will keep it's atmosphere I am yet to know. I may get to see the dragons play Ulster next month. This game was against Benetton Treviso from Italy.

[Bobcock]

Next we went up to Blaenafon to visit Pwll Mawr - Big Pit - the National Coal Museum. This was a former working mine and you actually got down 90m to the old coal face. Unforrtunately photographs are not allowed down below. The kids absolutely loved this experience and still talk about wanting to go back. The guides are all former miners and like all Museums in Wales it's free.





As well as the mine their is a very interesting exhibition in the old pit head baths. This is the lockler room. Before the pit head baths was built in the 1930's it was almost impossible for a miner to get clean after a day down the pit sitting in a tin bath in front of the fire. It's fair to say those people paid their dues. the introduction of the baths was said to have changed the lives of the miners and their wives...... "Gosh arwel, nice to shag without coal dust in my fanny...."



There are lots of exhibits from famous mining connected events, Senghenydd, Aberfan, the strike, the closures. This is a home made plate produced as a memorial to one young man who died in the senghenydd Mining Disaster of 1913 that claimed the lives of 439 men.

[oldgit]

Welsh are the salt of the earth, I should know I married one.

Charlie kunze was a piano player, you thick twat.

Beautiful crystal clear photos Bob.

[nidhogg]

Next we went up to Blaenafon to visit Pwll Mawr - Big Pit - the National Coal Museum. This was a former working mine and you actually

You taken the kids to the Welsh Folk Museum at St fagans? If you have not been, well worth a visit.

[Bobcock]

bOB Knob bumping old freds, bored as fuk he is and mate the mining industry is foked there?..........Can you lot actually play Rugby?

Posting pissed again?

You taken the kids to the Welsh Folk Museum at St fagans? If you have not been, well worth a visit.

We'll be there later in the thread.

[alwarner]

Coming back from the game in newport i had to cross this nice bridge they have built over the River Usk into the city centre.

As I was coming from rugby I didn't have a tripod or my fastest lenses with me so I upped the iso and did my best hand held. These are the best 2.

George St Bridge?

[Bobcock]

Nope, not the George street Bridge. This is just a footbridge that goes across from the Bus Station to Rodney Parade. It's only a few years old, the George Street Bridge is the next bridge down towards the sea

[Mathos]

Excellent photographs Bobcock.

Outstanding Bridge shots especially.

[Bobcock]

Next top is Penarth Pier, located a few miles south west (Ish) of Cardiff city centre. I used to love coming here, but in the last 18 months I have lost both my parents in a hospice that overlooks the pier so it now holds much different memories.



This shot is heavily altered......

[nidhogg]

^ Nice photos. I am sorry to hear of your loss though. Last time I was back in cardiff was to bury my dad. Sigh.

Anyway, I hear there is a new development linking cardiff bay to penarth now - supposed to be a nice walk with grreat views.

[Bobcock]

Specially for Nidhogg, here are the photos from a day trip to St Fagans Welsh Folk Museum. A great day out, the kids loved it especially with the great weather we had. Again it was free which prompted my wife to point out that she was again being forced to pay double in a foreign land.

The museum houses various Welsh buildings that have been relocated from their original locations to the site West of Cardiff.





Lots of wooded area in the park to sit and relax....




One of the highlights is the Celtic Village that has been recreated in the Museum

Recreated in 1992, the village at the National History Museum features three roundhouses identical those occupied by our Iron Age ancestors.

The round dwellings are reconstructions based on the excavated remains of actual buildings.
The stone-walled house is based on one found at Conderton, Worcestershire; the first wattle-walled house on one from the hillfort of Moel-y-Gaer, Flintshire; and the large house, with its roof supported on posts, on remains excavated at Moel-y-Gerddi, Gwynedd.
All three are roofed with straw and the site is defended by a palisade and ditch.
Inside the houses you can see weaving looms, fire-dogs, corn querns and other everyday utensils of the Celts. Experimental work in the growing of Iron-Age crops and rearing of animals also takes place here.

I post the last picture because it was taken with an iso of 12800, and I reckon it's pretty good considering. It was pretty dark in there.

[nidhogg]

^ Why thank you Sir.

it is a great place, more than a days worth to be fair - good traditional museum inside, and all the houses, churches, schools etc outside.

[Bobcock]

At least another 15 to come from St Fagans

[Bobcock]

There is also sheep photographs pending....

In the Museum is also an old village shop, it's a local shop....nothing for strangers around here....



Inside.....



Some lovely local cheeses for sale.....



An old Welsh Chapel, sadly I cannot tell you the era

[Bobcock]

Welsh trees.....much nicer than their english counterparts



It was actually quite busy the day we were there, very difficult to get shots without people walking through.....



As well as the museum there is also St Fagans castle linked to it.

Here is a duck in one of the castle ponds

[Bobcock]

From the castle grounds.....

[Bobcock]

This is the post that Keewees and taffs have been waiting for for ages on Teak door....some real porn....









Next stop will be Llandaff Cathedral......

[Bobcock]

Llandaff Cathedral

My brother and I were doing some business close by the cathedral and needed to waste some time. As we walked around near it we noticed that certain of the statues on the belltower were wrapped up and this one looked kinda creepy......



The current cathedral was built in the 12th century.





Christ In majesty by Jacob Epstein.