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Ghost sign on Wells Street
Actually there are two ghost signs here – one old sign for an oil stores and one more recent for the previous occupant of the shop unit
Image: © Graham Hogg
Taken: 4 Nov 2013
0.04 miles
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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This OS cut mark can be found on No75 Wells Street. It marks a point 7.516m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 15 Oct 2017
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Smeaton Street, Cardiff
Viewed from Ninian Park Road.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Aug 2010
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Canton Depot
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 29 May 2022
0.10 miles
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Fish Bazaar, Cardiff
Located on the corner of Ninian Park Road and Stephenson Street. Groceries, off-licence, Caribbean foods.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Aug 2010
0.11 miles
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Shiloh Pentecostal Fellowship Cardiff
Church on the corner of Ninian Park Road and Brunel Street. Formerly the Calvary Baptists' Riverside church, the building was vacated in 1972 on the merger with the fellowship in Canton, where the Baptists now worship. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1975992
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Aug 2010
0.11 miles
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A 'Hall' in the Canton Locomotive Yard, Cardiff
view eastward, towards Cardiff General station. Canton was the main Locomotive Depot at Cardiff, on the ex-GWR South Wales main line, about ¾-mile to the west on the Down side. In June 1950 the Depot (coded 86C in the Newport District) had a large allocation of 119, for varied main-line and some local duties, comprising:- 5 4-6-2 (BR Standard), 46 4-6-0 (41 GW, 5 BR Standard), 25 2-8-0 (15 GW, 10 ex-WD), 4 2-6-0, 9 2-8-0T, 1 2-6-2T, 11 0-6-2T, 18 0-6-0T. (These included a sprinkling (6) of engines from the former Valleys Railways). Featured here is 4-6-0 No. 5988 'Bostock Hall' (built 11/39, withdrawn 10/65).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 15 Apr 1951
0.11 miles
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Ninian Park Road, Cardiff
A long row of houses on the north side of Ninian Park Road, viewed looking east from the zebra crossing opposite Littleton Street.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Aug 2010
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Canton rail maintenance yard
Image: © Steve Daniels
Taken: 26 Jul 2000
0.12 miles
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New 'Manor' 4-6-0 at Cardiff Canton Locomotive Depot
Built very recently in 12/50, Collett-design 4-6-0 No. 7828 'Odney Manor' would last until 9/65, surviving to be preserved on the West Somerset Railway. Canton was a large Depot, the principal (main-line) one in Cardiff (BR code 86C), with a 1950 allocation of 107 locomotives:- 44 4-6-0, 12 2-8-0 (1 ex-WD), 4 2-6-0, 2 0-6-0, 2 2-8-2T, 12 2-8-0T, 1 2-6-2T, 11 0-6-2T and 19 0-6-0T.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 15 Apr 1951
0.12 miles