PHOTOS – Cardiff Half Marathon 2013

Below are 300 photographs taken at the Cardiff Half Marathon 2013. Feel free to view, download and share. Starting at 9am outside Cardiff Castle the route made it’s way via Leckwith, Penarth Road, across the barrage, back through the city and then a loop of Roath Park Lake. Lentaknai Lengurisi from Kenya won the 13.1 […]

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PUBS-Farewell to The Vulcan

Whilst everything around it has rapidly changed there was always one blot* on the ever-changing landscape of Cardiff. * Inthemindofthegreedydevelopers In my eyes not really a blot but a distinguished difference encapsulating the history of a now-lost Cardiff – which is now located on quite a lucrative piece of land on the ever-sprawling City Centre […]

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GRAFITTI-New work in Cathays and Roath

It was time to take another trawl around the ‘creative’ areas of Cathays and Roath (ok it’s where all the students live and they seem to accept and produce street art a lot more than the rest of Cardiff!) This time beginning at Cathays Community Centre and some amazing pieces from the locals including a […]

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PHOTOS-Ant and Dec at Britains Got Talent auditions

ITV hit talent show Britains Got Talent held auditions in a very cold Cardiff Bay in late January. Hosts Ant and Dec quickly met and greeted the audience before recording a few links with the crowds patiently shivvering behind them. I always thought Dec was a bit short but seeing them both stood next to […]

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PHOTOS-Alesha Dixon and David Walliams at Britains Got Talent

It was a bitterly cold Sunday lunchtime in Cardiff Bay where hundreds of people gathered outside the Wales Millennium Centre ready for the latest rounds of auditions for ITV talent show Britains Got Talent. It was a return to Cardiff for the show after finding previous winner Paul Potts a few years back. Auditionees streamed […]

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RUGBY-It’s all starting to get a bit exciting!

Earlier walking through Cardiff City centre and it just dawned on me how significant this whole rugby thing is! Shivers were sent down my spine the more I thought about it. This is the first time since the inaugral Rugby World Cup in 1987 that Wales have progressed to the semi-final stage. This time everything […]

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PHOTOS-Caerphilly Castle

The first bike ride up the Taff Trail for a while and it brought me out in the small town of Caerphilly (no its not a disease!) I hadn’t actually been to Caerphilly Castle since school days (yep it’s gotta be about 20 years since my last visit there!) Initially I felt totally dis-orientated as […]

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PHOTOS-Cardiff Harbour Festival

On the weekend beginning Friday 26th August, 2011 the Cardiff Harbour Festival began a full Bank Holiday weekend of activities around Cardiff Bay. (The old Tiger Bay to the rest of the world!) The Roald Dahl Plas was transformed into a busy mecca of food stalls, fish filleting demonstrations with activities and performances for the […]

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GRAF-‘Enta’ legal art opposite Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

There is a small legal wall featuring various pieces of art opposite Chapter Arts Centre in Canton, Cardiff. It’s essentially a small wall at the side of someone’s house who have allowed artwork to be displayed there. The first piece sprung up back in December in 2010 and was of a cute little chav girl […]

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RUGBY-Fans in City Centre trophy parade

Saturday 21st May, 2011 and one of the biggest weekends in the rugby world to hit the capital city for a while! On Friday night Stade Francais took on Harlequins in The Amlin Challenge Cup Final at the Cardiff City Stadium whilst on Saturday the Northampton Saints took on Leinster in the Heineken Cup Final […]

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Chapter at 40-Scrabble Sunday

  “On Friday 15 April 1971, at precisely 3.45pm, the first ever Chapter board meeting was held and our constitution was signed. During the coming 12 months we’re programming a series of special events to celebrate 40 years at the forefront of the European cultural scene; 40 years of creating and presenting groundbreaking, internationally acclaimed […]

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TV-Dr Who Filming in Cardiff

Filming for the latest series of the BBC sci-fi drama Dr Who has been taking place on the 7th and 8th of March in Cardiff City Centre. The numerous facility trucks were all parked up at the Millennium Stadium (DB Unit) – just about as close as they could get to the Wharton Street filming […]

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PHOTOS-Canal Parade, Butetown.

Taking a different route back from Cardiff Bay and veering down a slightly dodgy-looking side-street called Canal Parade. (Someone crossed off the obvious letter on the sign for humourous effect – and yes i still titter nearly everytime I see it!) The street didn’t look particularly inviting and looked quite run down, with some new […]

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PHOTOS-Cardiff City players meet the fans

Hundreds of football fans queued for their chance to meet the football players from local Championship side Cardiff City. The queue started at the entrance to the St David’s Centre on Working Street and led all the way upto the centre of the busy shopping mall between Boots and H Samuel.

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Excavation begins in the River Taff

Excavation works began in earnest on the River Taff, where it flows under Canton Bridge, in the City Centre of Cardiff this week. The work is being carried out to deepen the river to allow safe passage of larger vessels which serve the network of stops from Cardiff Bay and Penarth – which stop as […]

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