A Stroll Through Tiger Bay - Part 3 of 4
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Author of the Tiger Bay Story and The Cardiff Bay Experience, Neil Sinclair brings to the screen his very popular seafront history walk. Now in the pleasure of your easy chair you can venture down the old Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian streets of Tiger Bay and The Docks as they were.
Hear also interesting anecdotes of the larger than life characters who once walked those no longer existent streets and see how Cardiff, a mere village with less than 2,000 dwellers, grew into the city we recognise today.
Neil, who also does lectures, presentations, exhibitions and bus tours for the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, is a well known personality in the Bay where he still lives. In collaboration with Director Fran Boyer of Moaning Minnie Productions and underscored with original music composed by local musician and artist John Lenney, Neil has produced a most exciting and interesting video.
Contrasting wonderful views of Cardiff's newly transformed seafront with historical film footage and archive photographs, this video revives the historic beginnings of Cardiff's turn of the century rise from obscurity, inspired by the foresight and auspices of the Second Marquis of Bute, to become the world's most famous seaport.
DISCLAIMER:
Due to the extreme rarity of this VHS video, I wanted to upload it for posterity and the educational benefits it will bring to the younger citizens of our great city. I also wanted to ensure that Neil Sinclair's work is preserved. There is no financial gain made from this upload.
RIP Mr Sinclair. Much missed
Spent a lot of time there as a child as my uncle was caretaker of the mount stuart primary school both the old stone 1 and its replacement both now demolished
I went to live at the Pier Head (Bute Town) when I was 9 years old, having lived in the Rhobdda ValIey since birth. I was married at St Stephens church in 1963. Also in the chior when Rev Edmunds was in charge. Attended St Marys School Dumballs Road. George Street where I lived had two pubs, The Castle and The Ship and Pilot. Two Spanish grocer shops, one Arabian shop, a greek shipping chandlers, A wholesale butcher. A wet fish shop only open on Fridays. A large library . A bettin shop, when made legal!!! A brothel, not ever made legal. On the corner of George Street, St. James Street an old fashioned tobacconist, which included a barbers . All the stockbrokers from the Exchange went there for barbering. What a place to live!!! Every nationality all mixed in together. I could go on and on about The Pier Head, Butetown, Tiger Bay, reminisces would fill a book.
Our French 'Johnnie Onion' man befriended us. His name was Claude Coat. We went to stay with his family in St Pol de Leon on the coast of Brittany.
Really Interesting to see how much I have missed being born in Cardiff. This guy is definitely from Cardiff. As they say . You can take the boy out of Cardiff but you can't take Cardiff out of the boy 🤣
Top class buttie.
nice one
Of course they had to destroy Tiger Bay, we can't have people getting on now, can we?
Gay bull architecture?