Cardiff Docks (Welsh: Dociau Caerdydd) is a port in southern Cardiff, Wales. At its peak, the port was one of the largest dock systems in the world with...

life building the Cardiff docks and was later hailed as "the creator of modern Cardiff". A twice-weekly boat service between Cardiff and Bristol opened...

developed the coal and iron industries across South Wales and built the Cardiff Docks. Bute's father, John, Lord Mount Stuart, died a few months after he...

Barry Docks (Welsh: Dociau'r Barri) is a port facility in the town of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, a few miles southwest of Cardiff on the north shore...

neglected part of Cardiff, a wasteland of derelict docks and mudflats. Social exclusion of the area's inhabitants rose and Cardiff Bay had above average...

the local name for an area of Cardiff which covered Butetown and Cardiff Docks. Following the building of the Cardiff Barrage, which dams the tidal rivers...

until December 1844. It was opened as Cardiff Bute Dock but the name was changed to Cardiff Docks in 1845 by the Taff Vale Railway (engineer: Isambard...

and coal industries around Merthyr Tydfil and to connect them with docks in Cardiff. It was opened in stages in 1840 and 1841. In the railway's first years...

investments in the Cardiff Docks, an expensive programme of work that would enable Cardiff to become a major coal exporting port. Although the docks were not particularly...

city in March 1944 approximately 2,100 bombs fell, killing 355 people. Cardiff Docks became a strategic bombing target for German Luftwaffe (the Nazi German...

Taff Vale Railway and the Bute Trustees (who controlled the Cardiff Docks) proposed new docks at Roath, east of the city, and a new approach railway from...

coal were exported through Cardiff docks. This was the high point of the docks. 1916: Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Cardiff. 1919: Four days of race...

large dock operation in Cardiff, the "Bute Docks". This was very successful, but was overwhelmed by the huge volume of coal exported through Cardiff. At...

Docks, Avonmouth Sharpness Gloucester Newport Docks, Newport Cardiff Docks, Cardiff Barry Docks, Barry Port of Port Talbot, Port Talbot Swansea Docks...

campaigns. Cardiff, Swansea and Pembroke experienced bombing raids from the German Luftwaffe during World War II, with the Cardiff Docks being a strategic...

canal to be extended by half a mile (0.8 km), ending in a sea lock in Cardiff docks. This was opened in June 1798 when the event was celebrated by a naval...

community in Cardiff since the mid-19th century, founded by seafarers to Cardiff Docks. The first purpose-built mosque was erected in Cardiff in 1947. Today...

life building the Cardiff docks and would later be called "the creator of modern Cardiff". In 1815, a boat service between Cardiff and Bristol was established...

growth of the Cardiff Docks during the industrial revolution, but with the downturn in Glamorgan's iron and coal industries, the docks declined. Also...

routes for exporting coal south to ports and docks such as Newport Docks, Cardiff Docks and Barry Docks. Early mining activity was mainly by levels or...

Institute and later as Merton House was a large chapel which stood at Cardiff Docks, near the present Roald Dahl Plass. Since 1863, HMS Thisbe had served...

The Bute Docks Feeder is a canal in Cardiff, Wales, constructed to provide a water source for the Cardiff docks. In July 1830 an Act was passed by King...

on the beaches between Penarth and Cardiff. The coal trade from Penarth docks eventually petered out and the docks closed in 1936, only reopening for...

lead Royal Naval Reserve unit in Wales. It is based in the docks of the Welsh capital, Cardiff. HMS Cambria was established as the Royal Naval Reserve unit...

collieries and ironworks in the Rhymney Valley of South Wales, and to docks in Cardiff. It opened a main line in 1858, and a limited passenger service was...

proposed building a barrage stretching across the mouth of Cardiff Bay from Cardiff Docks to Penarth, which would impound freshwater from the rivers Ely...

caps. Born in Port Talbot, Bamford had played amateur football for Cardiff Docks and Bridgend Town before joining Wrexham in 1928, at the age of 23....

coal. By 1907 Cardiff's docks had 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) of quayage, one of the largest dock systems in the world at that time. Cardiff's port, known as...

race riots took place in the docks area of Newport and Barry, South Wales, as well as the Butetown district of Cardiff over a number of days in June...

ran from High Street in the city centre to the Docks run by the Cardiff Tramway Company. In 1898, Cardiff County Borough Council obtained Parliamentary...