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Willows High – A School With A View

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

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

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

Childhood in the UK today is a very different beast to the childhood many of us older folk had. Certainly

Following our first photography trip down to the River Ely Tidal Harbour, it was a good while before we returned

The transformation of Cardiff Docks to Cardiff Bay is remarkable. In the last 30 years it has changed from a

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

I was fortunate to have been able to do Photography in my time at Willows High, thanks to the effort