We Are Cardiff photographer Jon Pountney publishes ‘Cardiff before Cardiff’ During the 1970s and early ’80s, hundreds of prints and negatives of Cardiff were taken by the photographer Keith S. Robertson. These […]
This is the place… I’ve always thought there are two types of home: the one you have, and the one you want. Roath was definitely the latter for me. I […]
You always realise how much you miss home when you leave. When you come back, you realise that home is the thing that’s been missing. When I left for university […]
My memories of growing up in Cardiff are clearest from the age of around four to five years. We lived on North Road in the Maindy area of Cardiff with […]
I may well have been born in Cardiff but my first real home began in Spring 2010 in Grangetown. They picked me up from the re-homing centre in Aberdare and […]
Newtown (Little Ireland) For almost 40 years I’ve been living in a leafy suburb in North Cardiff. I’m happy here and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else – but […]
Ode to Cardiff The million pound deals in the biggest docks, where our black gold was swept out to sea to fuel the rest of the empire. That was just […]
12th May is International ME awareness day. You know ME, it’s the lazy people’s disease? Well, it’s estimated that over 28 million people now suffer from it in the world […]
Dear Cardiff, We see each other every day, but after a lifetime of acquaintance and a decade of cohabiting I thought it was time I told you what you mean […]
During my decade in Cardiff, I’ve gained a degree, worked in the music industry, been backstage at some of the greatest festivals in the UK, made some amazing friends, been […]
Chapel worms drill, silent in the wood floorboards creak out a secret or two this bench needs another polish a neighbour exchanges a pointed word to the woman next […]
