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Rhyd-yr-Helyg, CARDIFF, CF15 7SW

This OS cut mark can be found on No51 Oxford Street. It marks a point 36.692m above mean sea level.

This early January 2012 view from Heol Crochendy shows that construction work on the new Coleg Morgannwg campus in Nantgarw is nearing completion.

Chinese takeaway at 1 Oxford Street.

Photographer: Ben Brooksbank http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/44502 Taken by the side of the A468 (the route to Caerphilly lying behind the camera), looking towards its roundabout with what was then the A470 from Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil. The sign indicates that one should double back (first left) for Taff's Well and Cardiff. The old A470 is now designated the A4054. The curve and downgrade are still essentially the same, but the roundabout now has an extra industrial estate turnoff on the right. This area had a complex rail network, with lines running down both sides of Taff Vale, and with another line running right through the middle of the industrial estate. By the time this photo was taken, that 'central' line had been reduced to a short spur running from the South to the colliery. The embankment of that line is visible in this photo, to the left of the roundabout, with the River Taff beyond. The colliery and coking plant closed in 1986, and the entire plant and embankment have since been flattened.The old house on the right was originally part of the historic Nantgarw Chinaworks, and is now its museum. The remains of the Glamorganshire Canal are also to be found in the vicinity of the chinaworks. The A470 Expressway now thunders over a roundabout intersection both behind and just to the East of the photographer's position - making the pictured foreground road a sliproad for the industrial estate. Wikipedia entries for Nantgarw & Treforest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantgarw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treforest Nantgarw Colliery: http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/GlamEast/Nantgarw.htm

Modern office block alongside the A4054. An estate agents' board shows that one of the office suites was available to let at the early January 2012 date of this view.

The business is at 111 Oxford Street. Cash loans are available using their Logbook Loan, where loans are secured on a car that is clear of any outstanding finance. Their website shows that such loans have an extremely high rate of interest. For example, a cash loan of £800 is repayable in 18 monthly instalments of £134.11, a total of £2413.98, plus a £30 document registration fee. The representative APR is shown as 464.4%.

Opened in 2011, this is Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's Learning Curve Skills For Independence Day Service which is aimed at improving opportunities for adults with learning disabilities.

The A4054 reaches the Nantgarw boundary. Behind the camera are Parc Nantgarw and Treforest Industrial Estate.