The industrial history and archaeology of Cardiff, South and Mid Glamorgan
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Cardiff City
Curran Road, Cardiff
The West side of Curran Road, along the banks of the River Taff, is ripe for re-development. Luckily it's still a jumble of old warehouses and industrial units with a lot of embedded track that led off the Riverside branch. The locations in the captions refer to the 1954 OS maps.

Curran Road North, Cardiff, 1954
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Curran Road South, Cardiff, 1954
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Curran Road 'Index Engineering'
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Curran Road 'Index Engineering'
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Curran Road 'Index Engineering'
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Curran Road 'Training Centre'
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Curran Road 'Training Centre'
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Curran Road 'Training Centre'
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Curran Road 'Training Centre'
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Curran Road 'Training Centre'
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Curran Road 'Training Centre'
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Curran Road 'Foundry', Cardiff
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Curran Road 'Foundry', Cardiff
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Curran Road 'Foundry', Cardiff
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Curran Road 'Foundry', Cardiff
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Curran Road 'Foundry', Cardiff
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Curran Road 'Engineering Works'
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Curran Road 'Engineering Works'
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Curran Road 'Engineering Works'
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Curran Road 'Engineering Works'
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Curran Road 'Engineering Works'
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Curran Road 'Engineering Works'
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Curran Road 'Engineering Works'
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Curran Road 'Engineering Works'
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From the City centre to the docks
Other interesting odd spots around the City centre

West Junction Canal bridge
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West Junction Canal bridge
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Sophia Street railway bridge
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Roath Basin lock-keepers office
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Bute Dry Dock, Cardiff Bay
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Channel Dry Dock, Cardiff Bay
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Channel Dry Dock, Cardiff Bay
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Mountstuart Shipbuilding Yard
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Cardiff Dock entrance lock
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Old coal drams at Cardiff Bay
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Canal tunnel under Kingsway
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TVR docks branch bridge
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Above Caerphilly Tunnel and Cefn Onn caves
From ukCaving.com :-
The gated entrance did have a padlock on it, but not only was this padlock not attached to anything, the hole underneath the gate was more than large enough to get through. The shaft was straight and about 75-80 metres long, with a number of drill holes, so obviously man made, ending when you arrive at a curved brick wall, obviously another ventilation shaft for the railway. We could hear a significant (small waterfall size!) amount of water through a hole in the shaft wall, but couldn't see down to where it came from.
The little hole that I had crawled into as a lad was less interesting. We moved a boulder and dropped into it (tight and steep, much much harder to get out than to get in!) and there was probably about 7-8 metres of standing room passage that abruptly ended. We wondered if the railway workers had started to dig here before stopping for some reason.

Cefn Onn, Tranch-yr-hebog Quarry
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Cefn Onn, Tranch-yr-hebog Quarry
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Cefn-Onn large adit, Cardiff
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Cefn-Onn small adit, Cardiff
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Ventilation shaft No4
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Ventilation shaft no3
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Ventilation shaft no3
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Shaft No3 tramway bridge
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Shaft No3 tramway bridge
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Shaft No3 waste tips
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Shaft No3 waste tips
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Cardiff's outskirts

Cefn Mably valvehouse
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Peterstone sewer outfall
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St Brides sewer outfall
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St Brides sewer outfall
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Old photos around Cardiff
Some 1960s photos at Cardiff General and Cardiff Canton Open Day in August 1985

Cardiff trolleybus 201, 1964
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Cardiff trolleybus 242, 1964
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Cardiff bus 46 EBO 900
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Flying Scotsman at Cardiff
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Flying Scotsman at Cardiff
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Cardiff General and 9426
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Cardiff General and 6947, 1964
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Cardiff Railway poster
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An empty Heath Junction, Cardiff
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Cardiff Canton open day, 150 001
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Cardiff Canton open day, 150 001
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Cardiff Canton open day, 25322
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Cardiff Canton open day, 4930
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Cardiff Canton open day, 4930
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Cardiff Canton open day, 4930
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Cardiff Canton open day, 7029
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Cardiff Canton open day, 7029
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Cardiff Canton open day, 97201
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Cardiff Canton open day, D200
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Cardiff Canton open day, 92220
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Cardiff Canton open day, 92220
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Cardiff Canton open day
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Cardiff Cathays Park, C306
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Cardiff Central, Class 43
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Tickets and Totems around Cardiff
Ray Weavin has shared these photos of his souvenir tickets and station totems,also the Barry Railway signal box nameplate spelt 'Dynas Powis'.

Souvenir platform ticket
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Souvenir last tram ticket
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Souvenir trolleybus tour ticket
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Cardiff bus tickets from the 1960s
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Cardiff Station totems
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'Dynas Powis' signalbox nameplate
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East Moors Steelworks in the 1950s
Ray Weavin 's uncle, Ivor Evans, worked as a crane driver at East Moors Steelworks, after serving in the Merchant Navy during the war, including Russian convoys. He took these photos of his workmates in the mid-1950s.

East Moors Steelworks, c1955
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East Moors Steelworks, c1955
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East Moors Steelworks, c1955
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East Moors Steelworks, c1955
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East Moors Steelworks, c1955
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East Moors Steelworks, c1955
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Barry, Porthkerry and Rhoose
Woodhams Yard in the 1960s and 1975

Woodhams Yard, Barry, 30499
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 30830
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 34070
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 35022
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 4247
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 45293
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 47324
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 48305
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 6023
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 61264
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 92219
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Woodhams Yard, Barry
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 30841
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 31874
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Woodhams Yard, 45690 31618
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Woodhams Yard, 53808 31618
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Woodhams Yard, Barry, 44777
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Woodhams Yardy, 31625
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Woodhams Yard, 31806 31638
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Barry, Old harbour - ST 1067 6681
A couple of old hulks and the limekilns

Barry old harbour
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Barry old harbour
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Barry old harbour limekilns
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Barry West pier - ST 1220 6665
Some rails are still surviving on the breakwater at Jackson's Bay.

Barry West pier
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Barry West pier
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Barry West pier
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Porthkerry Quarries - ST 0753 6595
Between c1912 and c1931 a 3'0" gauge railway ran around these quarries. The bridge abutments and stonework may be connected with this line.

Porthkerry lower quarry
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Porthkerry lower quarry
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Porthkerry lower quarry
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Porthkerry lower quarry
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Quarry bridge abutments
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Rhoose Quarries - ST 0660 6570

East Quarry, Rhoose
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West Quarry blast shelter
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West Quarry tank, Rhoose
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West Quarry, Rhoose
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West Quarry, Rhoose
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Out and About in South Glamorgan
St Fagans Folk Museum

St Fagans Museum, Limekiln
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St Fagans Museum, Limekiln
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St Fagans Museum, Pottery kiln
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The Llantrisant No.1 Railway at ST 1196 7907
The Llantrisant No.1 Railway ran from Waterhall Junction to Llantrisant. A footpath crosses under the line near Rhydlafr and planning notices show that no less than 5970 houses are to be built here very soon!

Bridge abutments near Rhydlafr
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Trackbed to the South
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Trackbed to the North
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Tresilian, Llantwit Major - ST 9473 6777
There are three World War 2 pillboxes surrounding Tresilian, a large seaside house, near Llantwit Major.

The Eastern Tresilian pillbox
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The Eastern Tresilian pillbox
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The Central Tresilian pillbox
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The Western Tresilian pillbox
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St Donats Castle - ST 9345 6800
Dunraven Castle - ST 8893 7345
St Donats Castle once boasted an outdoor swimming pool and this chimney and flue appear to have been part of the heating system, unusual with the chimney some way away from the pool like the old lead-smelting flues.
There's not much left of Dunraven Castle itself but the gardens are very pleasent. There's an old barn not far away with cast-iron pillars supporting the roof.

St Donats swimming pool chimney
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St Donats swimming pool flue
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Dunraven Castle barn pillar
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Monknash and Marcross
Monknash Corn Mill appears to a c19th century mill at SS 9088 7028 with one wall and the wheelpit left. The windmill or dovecot is more prominent at SS 9086 7060. Old maps show it as a windmill but latterly it's been used as a dovecote. The base of Marcross windmill is at SS 9269 6898.

Monknash Corn Mill
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Monknash Corn Mill
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Monknash Corn Mill
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Monknash Corn Mill
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Monknash Corn Millrace
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Monknash Corn Millrace
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Monknash Windmill or Dovecot
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Marcross Windmill
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St Brides Major, limekiln - ST 9129 7520
'Ffynnon-y-Pant' - ST 8809 7570
Another very ruinous limekiln near Castle-upon-Alun, St Brides Major.
A rather elaborate old well in the dried-up valley of Pant Mari Flanders, in existence by 1877

Limekiln near St Brides Major
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'Ffynnon-y-Pant', St Brides Major
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