Places Archives - Then Was

Barry Island Beach And Fair In Old Postcards – Part 3

It’s been almost a year since my last Barry Island postcards post, and all that time I’ve been picking up […]

As I’m in back-to-school mode and recalling those long gone days of carefree youth, I thought now would be an

I was fortunate (or unfortunate depending on your viewpoint) to have attended Willows High School in Tremorfa for the entirety

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

With it being that festive time of year, I’ve been thinking back to my childhood in the late 1970s /

The Coal Exchange has long been an iconic building in Cardiff, and one I’d experienced in various ways over the

Roath Park will be familiar with pretty much anyone who’s grown up and lived in Cardiff, its pleasant boating lake

We’re back on Barry Island one last time (for the time being) with the last batch of my collected vintage

I’m not just about the past here, occasionally I shoot interesting contemporary stuff that I like to share here as

Keeping it Barry Island I wanted to feature a video of the place shot in 1989 by Roger Middleton. Thanks