This is at the Senedd down Cardiff Bay
Category Archives: history
St Teilo’s research
For my MA in art history I’m doing a thesis on the murals in St Teilo’s church, which was restored and moved to St Fagans museum. I contacted them and today i spent with a researcher who helped me go through the archives. It was very generous of them & really interesting. Bought this book afterward
Three bears of sluice gates
These are the old mechanisms for the sluice gates down by the weir.
St Fagans
Took a couple of hours out today to go to St Fagans museum of Welsh life. They moved old buildings and rebuilt them here. This is an 18th century school.
Tunnel of the Dead
There is a forest on the other side of the valley that doesn’t seem to have any paths, so today Bruno and I set out to explore it. We found the old railway track which led eventually to this closed up tunnel. I’m pretty certain a species of vampiric beasts live in here, coming out at night to feast on the locals.
I tried to find a path over the top of the tunnel, but it became very narrow and then disappeared altogether. There was a steep 300 foot drop the other side which Bruno and I found ourselves sliding down at one point, so I abandoned and turned back.
Old viaducts
You can’t move in my area for old viaducts. I’m a sucker for old structures being reclaimed by nature so this is a good thing.
We take the castell
Looking up at one of the towers of Castell Coch
Bridge too far
Taffs Well thermal spring
Walked Bruno the the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taff%27s_Well_Thermal_Spring]thermal spring in Taffs Well[/url] today. It’s situated at the back of the park and has a little information audio thing you can play. Apparently it takes 5000 years for the water to find it’s way back to the surface, and it has a temperature of 21C.
Lipowa 4
This is the site of Schindler’s enamel factory which we visited today
