Culture

Memories of culture.

Cardiff’s VHS Rental Shops – Part 2 – Clifton Street & Splott Road

Carrying on with my occasional reminiscences of the VHS shops of my youth, I’m stretching the net wider, beyond Broadway […]

On the corner of Broadway and Cyril Crescent stands an unassuming, small single storey retail block that is separated into

The Six Nations are now in full swing, and as any self-respecting Welsh person knows, the singing of the Welsh

Broadway was my main place for renting videos, and during the 1980s there were a number of great shops along

I’ll start this off with an introduction post to what I plan to be an ongoing series about the old

I was doing one of my many daily visits to the Cardiff Now And Then Facebook page when I spotted

One of the best things about living where we did were all the back lanes in the area. We loved

As a teen in the mid 1980s I was really starting to get into music and was keen to build

In the early 1990s I was studying fine art in Falmouth, Cornwall where every so often a book seller would

Welcome to the site, this is the first post. So what is Then Was? Essentially it’s a personal project and