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Marcross Road, CARDIFF, CF5 4RQ

This OS damaged cut mark can be found on No86 Green Farm Road. It marks a point 59.473m above mean sea level.

This OS cut mark can be found on No398 Grand Avenue. It marks a point 58.369m above mean sea level.

View of Western Cemetery, Ely, from the north entrance.

This Pub used to have a nice graphic on its main sign outside which now seems to have disappeared. Anyway the name of the Pub derives from the Battle of St Fagans which took place nearby in 1648 between the Roundheads led by Colonel Thomas Horton and the Cavaliers under the command of Colonel John Poyer, who was Governor of Pembroke Castle at that time. Colonel Thomas Horton with a detachment of just under 3,000 well-disciplined troops from the New Model Army, was sent by Sir Thomas Fairfax to secure south Wales for Parliament and to crush the rebellion. He had one and a half regiments of Horse (cavalry), most of Colonel Okey's regiment of Dragoons and most of a regiment of Foot (infantry). Horton at first advanced westwards through Wales towards Carmarthen, but then had to march hastily to Brecon to forestall an uprising there. From Brecon, he then marched south to Cardiff, occupying the city before the Royalists could do so. His force took up quarters in and around St. Fagans, west of the city. Another army under Oliver Cromwell himself was also marching towards Wales. Laugharne was anxious to defeat Horton before Cromwell could reinforce Horton's detachment. After a brief skirmish on 4 May, he launched an attack on 8 May. Laugharne's army consisted of about 7,500 infantry but only 500 cavalry.

This OS cut mark can be found on No63 MacDonald Road. It marks a point 58.244m above mean sea level.

This OS cut mark can be found on No43 Mostyn Road. It marks a point 62.560m above mean sea level.

The busiest trolleybus route in Cardiff served the large Ely housing estate. The services were provided in the form of a loop running out via Cowbridge Road and returning via Grand Avenue, or vice versa. The main service operated along Macdonald Road, which can be seen diverging to the left from Grand Avenue at this point. The trolleybus in the picture has come from Green Farm Road. This was an extra loop which was served in one direction only by about one in three of the journeys operating clockwise. This scene appears to have changed very little in 40 years, although there are now some trees in the reservation of Grand Avenue. For a slide show of British Trolleybuses in the late 60s http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1773236&displayclass=slide

A view taken to complement Image complete with the same 'phone box! The route 10 at Ely was the last extension to the Cardiff Trolleybus system before a change of policy led to its run down in favour of diesel buses and eventual closure in 1970. If I remember correctly the 10A and 10B both ran to Ely but took opposite directions on a loop around the housing estate. I think this picture was taken only months before closure, but I'm open to correction. The original slide was very underexposed and it is only thanks to modern digital processing that it has been possible to recover this image.