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Issue 12 March/April ‘11
WHAT’S INSIDE
Interview: Merv ‘The Swerve’ Davies
Llandaff: Home of Dr Who Then and Now: Local Pubs Policing North Cardiff
Memories: Melingriffith Boys Pets’ Page Recipes
Local News Crossword
The rays of the spring sun stretch across North Cardiff. As our villages emerge from the harsh winter, we look forward to new beginnings, fresh weather and warmth.
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Letters Letters to the Editors Competition Win tickets to see Corrie! at the WMC
Interview: Wales and Lions legend Mervyn Davies
Melingriffith Boys Memories of a by-gone era Local Pubs Then and Now
Out and About Dr Who in Llandaff Pets’ Page Local vet Chris Troughton answers your pet questions
Policing North Cardiff Meet your local bobbies at Whitchurch Police Station Crossword
Welcome Croeso
Welcome to your early spring issue of Whitchurch and Llandaff Living - the official magazine for Whitchurch, Llandaff and Llandaff North. Spring is finally on its way and not before time! We’ve been busy over the winter period, planning for the year ahead. This is now our fourth year of publication, and to celebrate the safe arrival of co-editor Danielle’s baby girl, we’re launching our own little sister publication for the Llandaff suburb of Danescourt. Danescourt Living will replace the Danescourt News, which had been running for many years, but has now moved to the web. Details of this, our third publication, can be found on our website. Meanwhile, we’ve got a colourful edition of Whitchurch and Llandaff Living to brighten up your day. We recently held a photo competition on our website, and Steve Burnett’s wonderful photo of a kingfisher at Forest Farm graces our front cover this issue. Inside, we have an exclusive interview with a giant of Welsh rugby, Mervyn Davies. We caught up with him over a pint in Llandaff. We’re also delighted to be able to reproduce parts of Steve Nicholas’s new book, Whitchurch and Llandaff North Through Time. We look at local pubs, as they were in the past, and as they are now. Joanna Cawley investigates the many links between Llandaff and the popular TV series, Dr Who on page 22. Melingriffith is fondly remembered by two ‘Melingriffith boys’, and we’ve also met up with the officers at Whitchurch Police Station. They’ll be providing us with information throughout the year. As usual, we’ve got the top stories from the area in our news section, and of course, the ever-popular crossword. Please remember to support our advertisers, without whom, your free issue of Living Magazines would not be possible. See you in May! Editors
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Cover photograph by Steve Burnett
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH UPDATE
with Bill Farnham
I am often asked “Why are we in Cardiff West Neighbourhood Association when we live in Cardiff North?”. Let me explain. There are two NWAs in Cardiff - East and West. In Cardiff West NWA, we cover the following areas: Butetown (including Cardiff Bay), Canton, Creigiau, Danescourt, Ely, Fairwater, Gabalfa, Grangetown, Gwaelod-yGarth, Leckwith, Llandaff, Llandaff North, Michaelston, Morganstown, Pentyrch, Pontcanna, Radyr, St. Fagans, The Drope, Tongwynlais and Whitchurch. Two areas in Whitchurch have expressed an interest in setting up a Neighbourhood Watch. Hopefully as soon as I receive more information, we can get these Watches up and running. The next meeting of Cardiff West NWA is on the 16th May at Fairwater Conservative Club, Ely Road, Llandaff, starting at 7pm. At this meeting, we hope to have a representative from Cardiff Prison as our guest speaker. All Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators and Watch members are invited. The next PACT meeting for the Whitchurch and Tongwynlais area will be on the 1st March at the Community Centre, Old Church Road, Whitchurch. The meeting starts at 7pm. Call 02920 527301 if you are interested in setting up a Neighbourhood Watch.
WHITCHURCH ALL SEWN UP BY WI
News
Whitchurch Women’s Institute have recently unveiled a spectacular banner, mapping the entire village of Whitchurch. The banner took two years to complete, and involved the work of 25 women.
Women’s Institute spokesperson, Sylvia Richards, told Living Magazines: “The map highlights some of the landmarks of the area, ranging from the American Memorial on the Common, to the hospital in the north of the village. “We all worked on various parts of the banner, before piecing it together. It took us a long time to finish, but we all agree that the banner has recorded a moment in time that others can appreciate in future generations.”
A north Cardiff takeaway has won the prestigious title of ‘South Wales’ Best Takeaway 2011’ in Media Wales’ Food and Drink Awards. The Gateway of India in
Rhiwbina was described as a ‘gem of a takeaway’. Customers can buy readymade dishes to cook at home. The shop opened for business in 1995.
AFC Whitchurch under 9s football team have kicked off 2011 with a new sponsorship deal. Thanks to Tom Thumb’s Sweets & Fancy Dress shop in Whitchurch, the team of boys
and girls are sporting new kits, complete with club and sponsor logos. Tom Thumb’s is run by Tom Champ, who agreed to sponsor the young footballers after an approach from a parent.
LOCAL TAKEAWAY TASTES SUCCESS
AFC WHITCHURCH’S SWEET NEW SPONSORSHIP
The players of AFC Whitchurch Under 9s in their new kit.
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News LOCAL SHOPPERS TO HELP CUT DOWN NUMBER OF PLASTIC BAGS IN WALES
Residents of Whitchurch, Llandaff and Llandaff North are being reminded that, as from 1st October 2011, shoppers will be charged at least 5p for a bag wherever they shop in Wales. The charge will apply in all shops including clothes stores, take away food outlets and restaurants, corner shops and market stalls. It will also apply when goods are delivered in Wales, such as dot.com groceries. Explaining the new charge, a spokesperson for the Welsh Assembly Government told Living Magazines: “During 2009 in Wales, we took home an estimated 350 million carrier bags from the major supermarkets alone. Bags are bad for the environment, create litter and harm wildlife. The Assembly Government is introducing the charge to drastically reduce the number of bags we use in Wales.” More information can be found at www.carrierbagchargewales. gov.uk. Shoppers can also email: carrierbagcharge @wales.gsi.gov.uk or phone 02920 826230.
CAN YOU DIG IN AND HELP THE ROTARY CLUB OF CARDIFF?
Are there any unwanted tools in your shed or garage? The Rotary Club of Cardiff is collecting old, second hand or broken tools used for gardening, carpentry, building, tailoring etc. The tools are repaired and refurbished in workshops in Crickhowell, and then sent to communities in Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana and Zimbabwe for the charity “Tools for Self Reliance”. They organise skills training projects for carpenters, tailors, blacksmiths, mechanics, builders and other artisans. The aim is to give local artisans the tools and training they need to earn a living and
to help build their communities. If you have any unwanted tools such as a spade, fork, hoe, secateurs, hammer, chisel, saw, sewing machine etc, please contact David Thomas on Cardiff 20614242 or e-mail dafyddthomas1@googlemail. com. The Rotary Club of Cardiff would be pleased to organise a collection within the Cardiff area.
ROYAL WEDDING
FARMERS’ MARKET
A group of shop-keepers and business owners are calling on Whitchurch locals to help celebrate the Royal Wedding this spring. George Lazarou is hoping that Whitchurch Common can be the site for a day to remember on Friday 29th April, when Prince William marries his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton. “We made a big effort at Christmas to turn our village into a Winter Wonderland and we’re hoping that the residents of Whitchurch can once again join in the party atmosphere.”
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The Farmers’ Market in Llandaff North has proved such a great success following a trial period in December, that it is now opening on a permanent basis. The market is run by the award-winning Riverside Community Market Association, and has opened markets across Cardiff, including Roath and Rhiwbina. The market offers locals the very best fresh produce, and is held every two weeks in the car park of the Railway pub on Station Road (3pm - 6.30pm) The forthcoming dates for your diary are: March: 11th and 25th April: 8th and 22nd May: 6th and 20th
Letters to the Editors
Letters/Competition
Letter from the Lakes
Dear Editors I picked up Whitchurch and Llandaff Living issue 11 while visiting my daughter over Christmas. It has a lot of interest generally for locals well done. Though I live in the Lake District, I have a close interest in Whitchurch and Melingriffith, so Les Gibbon's More Memories of Melingriffith is particularly interesting. I have met Les and been ,
COM PETITION Celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of the country’s favourite soaps, Corrie! takes some of the biggest story-lines and most famous characters from the Street and packs them all into a couple of hours of clever, witty comedy. Murders, marriage breakups, tram disasters – it’s all there, and all parodied in an endearing, tongue-in-cheek way that doesn’t disappoint. Fully endorsed by ITV and scripted by one of the series’ writers, Jonathan Harvey, it’s a new comedy that members of the ‘real’ Coronation Street cast enjoyed enormously when they saw it performed last year in Salford.
shown his fantastic photograph collection. My interest stems from Christopher James (17511837) who had a shop in Whitchurch and worked at Melingriffith - presumably about the time the Pump was built. His great granddaughter married Edward Pritchard Martin who was responsible for building ‘Dowlais by the Sea’ - the East Moors Steel Works. I think he had an interest in
William Roache (Ken Barlow) described it as ‘a hilarious roller coaster’ and Suranne Jones (Karen McDonald) said it was ‘the biggest laugh I have ever had’. With only 5 actors taking on a whole host of legendary roles, and narrated by ‘Alec Gilroy’ himself – otherwise known as classic British comic actor Roy Barraclough – this is a soapy tour de force that will take you across the cobbled streets and right into the heart of the Rover’s Return! We have teamed up with the Wales Millennium Centre to offer one lucky reader the opportunity to win 4 tickets to see the show on opening night, Monday 25 April, as well as a two course pretheatre meal with a bottle of house wine in the Centre’s restaurant ffresh. To win, simply answer this following question:
Keep your letters coming! Address on the inside front cover
Melingriffith Tinplate Works at one time. I am his great grandson and was born at Dowlais. Stuart Cresswell Threlkeld Cumbria PS. There are many James buried in St Mary's old churchyard and my daughter lives in Heol Don where Christopher James lived 200 years ago!
Which Coronation Street writer has been involved with creating this production?
Answers on a postcard to the postal or email address on the inside front cover by 31 March.
Corrie! runs at Wales Millennium Centre from 25 – 30 April 2011. For more information or to book tickets, call the Ticket Office on 029 2063 6464 or visit wmc.org.uk.
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he craggy features on the face of Merv ‘The Swerve’ Davies are very much the same as they were in the ‘70s. Hands like shovels and shoulders as broad as the Tawe, his 6ft 3 frame sits awkwardly on the pub chair. Opposite him is John Dawes, architect perhaps of the legendary Golden Period of Welsh rugby. To his right is Barry John, regarded by many as the finest outside-half of all time. Mervyn’s famous Mexican moustache has long gone, and his deep, dark eyes crawl around the historic sporting pictures on the wall of the Butcher’s Arms, Llandaff,
as he recalls his childhood in Swansea. “Penlan County School was a new school. There wasn’t a blade of grass in sight so we all played soccer. It wasn’t until I passed my 11+, that I tried my hand at rugby. The school had no history of sporting or academic success and I had no recognition for anything I did there. I went on to do teacher training, and moved to London to ply my trade as a school master. I played for Old Guildfordians where we played some god-awful rugby. “I then joined London Welsh in 1968. The team was full of talent and quickly became
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renowned for its free-flowing style of rugby. JPR and Gerald were there. We were hated on both sides of the bridge of course. The English hated us because we were those ‘Welsh bastards’, holed up in their country; and the Welsh hated us because we’d sold our souls to the English. We became everyone’s target. “But you’ve got to remember that this was the late ‘60s, the age of flower power, magic mushrooms and free love. Life was good – for me at any rate.” Mervyn’s first Welsh cap came in 1968 against Scotland at Murrayfield, which Wales went on to win 17-3. Photograph © Getty Images
“I don’t remember much about the game. JPR Williams, who was with me at London Welsh was getting his first cap too, so there was a great sense of camaraderie between us both. We were both in it together. The memory that sticks with me the most is simply standing on the pitch and thinking ‘Is this really happening to me?’. I’d come from total obscurity, having only joined London Welsh six weeks earlier, and yet here I was, stood on the pitch playing for Wales. “I had one objective that game, and it became a philosophy that I took into every game: to eliminate errors from my own performance. We won the game and I never got dropped after that.” Mervyn went on to play 38 consecutive games for Wales until 1976 (when his career was cruelly cut short by a brain haemorrhage during a club game for Swansea, which he had joined in 1972). During this time, Mervyn won two Grand Slams and three Triple Crowns. Mervyn unfurls and lets out a great roar of laughter at the suggestion that he has been cited as the Best Ever Welsh captain. “Did you hear that John? Best-ever captain of Wales!” John Dawes, sat opposite him, splutters on his drink and spits it back into his glass. “You’re joking aren’t you? I can think of at least 10 or 11 better captains than him!” The facts speak for themselves however. In a poll of Welsh rugby fans in 2002, Mervyn was voted both ‘Greatest Ever Welsh Captain’ and ‘Greatest Ever Welsh
Number 8’. In 2001 he was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame. “Times were tough back in the ‘70s you know. The nation was going through a lot with industrial unrest. There was a hell of a lot of expectation on us as players, and on me as captain to succeed. It was an added incentive if you like, but it was hard on us. If we did lose, the nation would go into mourning.” The pressure was cranked up even further when Mervyn was selected to play for the 1971 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand. But as a hardrunner and an aggressive tackler, Mervyn had the handling capabilities to link forward and back play, and keep the Lions on the front foot against formidable opposition. His abilities at the back of the lineout prompted New Zealand legend Colin ‘Pine Tree’ Meads to claim that the Welshman had the All Blacks ‘donkey licked’ during the Lions’ only ever series win in New Zealand. Mervyn also toured on the infamous 1974 tour of South Africa, which again, was a success for the tourists. “Playing for the Lions, is for any rugby player, the zenith of their career. 40 years since the ’71 tour to New Zealand, it’s sometimes mind-boggling to think that no other team in history, either before or after, has won a series in New Zealand. To be part of an achievement like that is such an honour – it can’t be taken away from me. It was also unique in that this was a time when rugby was amateur. You had to have an understanding employer, which was
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fortunately, something that I had in my teaching career. But spending 14 weeks away from home meant that, for the first time, we could focus purely on the rugby. We felt like professionals, even if we weren’t paid. We could hone our skills and taste what it was like to live as a rugby player.” As Mervyn is speaking, Barry John pick-pockets Mervyn’s bus pass from his jacket and passes it round like a naughty schoolboy. Mervyn’s giant hand swoops down and swipes the pass clean out of Barry’s hand. Age has not slowed the deftness of his handling abilities. “Rugby is a distant memory. I’ve been there, done that. Got the T-shirt. I’m not an avid supporter of any particular team and for me watching the game is way down on my list of life’s pleasures. That’s not to say that I dislike the game. The proud tradition of Welsh rugby will continue forever and good luck to them. “But for me, the game is about abiding memories mostly sounds. The noise that the crowd generated was a physical thing. It would pick you up and move you, sweep you across the field, and carry you across the park. During breaks of play, you’d stand there, literally swaying in the swirling concoction of noise. It is something that will stay with me forever.”
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those in other further education colleges in Wales. The college has sustained this high level of performance over the last three years. Its overall performance places it among the highest-performing colleges in Wales. The college also performs very well when compared with outcomes for sixth-form colleges in England.” Among the reasons the inspection team gave for grading the college so highly included the fact that students often succeeded at a higher level than was predicted following their GCSE results. The college’s honours programme which assists more able students in applying to the top universities was also singled out for praise and inspectors pointed out that success at the college is not limited to those from well-off backgrounds. Students in receipt of the educational maintenance allowance as a group achieved an overall success rate above that achieved by those who do not receive the allowance. The report concluded that learning experiences were excellent overall as was the work of the senior leadership team and the care, support and
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s y o B h t i f f i r Meling History
s was Ken Hopkin st Farm born at Fore in 1930 My early memories as a four year old are of our two terraced cottages. They had, from memory, three bedrooms, one living room and a rear scullery which would now be called a kitchenette. We had no bathroom, no running water and no electricity. We relied on paraffin lamps for light. Outside, there was a communal hand water-pump which was shared by three families – the Hopkins, the Richards next door, and the Youngs who were the farmers. In my family were my mum, my dad Ned, and my two elder brothers – Ron who was ten years older and Bill my senior by eight years. There was another brother, Teddy, who died aged ten while undergoing surgery at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. Phil Young worked on my father’s farm. They told me that, as a nosey youngster, I would follow him everywhere.
One morning, I was watching the milking and stood too near the cow’s tail. Phil lifted the tail and I was at once covered from head to toe in brown watery mess. I looked like a gingerbread man! Phil carried me back to my mother, who stripped my clothes off and washed the muck off me under the communal cold water pump. Luckily, the summers were warmer in those days. On another occasion, Phil went on his horse and cart, to collect some hay from the barn. As he forked the hay onto the cart, he disturbed a courting couple. The girl screamed, they both jumped down and ran off laughing. Phil chased them and warned them not to trespass on the farm again. In my innocence, I wondered what it was all about. Our outside toilet, which was at the very end of the garden was a sort of mobile shed. It had four wheels and four handles, like a rickshaw. My father would dig a large hole in the garden, throw a bag of
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lime into it, and then move the shed over the hole. Inside the shed, Dad built a long wooden seat with a hole cut out in the middle. That was our toilet. After a month or so, he would move it along and dig another hole. With no running water to bathe, we had a long galvanised tin bath which my parents would fill with buckets of water heated up on the open coal or wood fires. My father was good with his hands. He built us goalposts with nets for us to play football and made a swing with rope and a wooden swing seat, swinging from the branch of a tree. The Youngs had a billiards or snooker table in the upstairs of their barn! In 1935, we moved to No.4, Heol Booker, and the cottages were demolished. We thought that our new council house was quite posh. We had a toilet, a bathroom with hot and cold running water, a gas cooker, electric lighting and a wireless with a battery that had to be charged.
There was a large garden front and back. The rest of the land towards the tinplate works was all allotments. My father had three up on the Batter, beyond the rugby club (as was). My father was very friendly with Billy Williams who lived down in the Lock House. His brothers Griff and Tommy worked as mill men in the Melingriffith Tinplate Works with my family and two brothers. This was of course, pre-war. My father and Billy built stables and a shed for Billy’s cart. He was known as Bill the Fish because he made deliveries of fresh fish and vegetables to all the houses. One day, when I was looking bored, as a seven or eight year old, Billy asked me if I would like to ride to bareback on his smaller horse. “Yes please!” I said (I had never ridden on a horse in my life!). So Billy lifted me up and told me to walk him slowly around the top of the Batter. I was doing OK but then a dog came barking at us. The horse started to trot and then galloped towards Velindre Road. I fell off where the new rugby club is now. I was unhurt but the horse carried on towards the road and turned sharp left down the hill in the direction of Llandaff North. I ran as quickly as I could to Billy, shouting that the horse had bolted down the hill. Both my father and Billy rushed through the small woods, down to the road, almost by Billy’s house and lo and behold – there was the horse, frothing at the mouth, steam rising from its body, waiting for its daily feed.
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Desmond Morley was born in the 1920s and spent many days on the canal in the 1930s
I would spend time with my grandparents at a very early age in the late 1920s at their cottage. It has long been demolished but it stood on Ty-Mawr Road, Llandaff North, and was one of three or four cottages virtually opposite the Williams’ house abutting the canal. I remember the early morning sound of the tin-workers trampling past the cottage to their work at the Melingriffith Works, often with a white scarf round their neck to absorb the sweat from the heat at their workplace; memories also of the barges on the canal towed by a horse who would be unhitched at a bridge such as Band’s Bridge, for the barge to pass under. The horse waited on the other side to be re-hitched. The Isbergs lived the other side of the locks. He was presumably the lock-keeper, and it was in their house that I first heard (at the age of four or five) the miracle of radio. By that I mean, a scratchy noise emitted from a crystal set as it
was known in those days. The old water wheel on the feeder at the back of their house has probably long gone – sadly Mrs Isberg fell into the lock one dark night and was drowned. Many must have drowned in the canal over the years, including a very young cousin of mine, who at the age of 13 or 14, fell into the canal lock near the Cow and Snuffers pub. I also have memories of walking down the canal path towards the ‘Ton’ (Tongwynlais), past the ‘Sunny Bank’ cottages on the other side, at the beginning of the ‘Long Wood’. Forest Farm was on the left, and was managed at that time, I believe, by a Jeff Troakes. The sudden sight of a kingfisher darting across the canal from the Long Wood often made me gasp. I believe that the kingfisher family are still there – after some 80 years! Yes – fond memories of innocence and pleasure in the early thirties, unaware of what was to come: training in Canada as a bomb aimer and navigator for the RAF, and thankfully, for my conscience, not having occasion to drop a bomb before the war ended.
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The Plough
The Plough Hotel was built in late Victorian times and was a Hancocks pub before it was taken over by Bass Breweries. A chip shop next door to the pub was acquired and was converted into a bar extension. The building near the telegraph pole (left) was Lewis’s Chemist, and is now Boots the Chemist.
The Hollybush
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The Cow and Snuffers
The picture (left) shows part of the canal and the lock near the Cow and Snuffers
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Then and Now
The Fox and Hounds
The Fox and Hounds is built more or less in the centre of a Roman compound. There are also Roman remains close by, at the rear of Tyn y Pwll Road.
The Railway
The picture on the left shows a delivery of ales from WH Hancock Co Ltd. The Railway was built in the 1870s.
The Crown
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by Joanna Cawley his hand to scriptwriting, working on radio scripts as well as a host of TV shows before the opportunity to work on Doctor Who came up. Although Nation was at first sceptical of his own ability to produce any significant scripts for the show, he was later proven wrong when he created The Daleks for the second storyline. They appeared in the fifth episode and have since become a well-known symbol of the show, proving that Nation’s self doubt was unfounded. He later went on to create other significant characters such as Davros, The Voords and Roboman. Nation found later success in the 1970s within the sci-fi genre working on Survivors, Blake’s 7 and Macgyver, but it is perhaps his invention of the Daleks that he is most remembered for. In more recent times, Llandaff has been used as a location for filming Doctor Who. Episodes in Series 3 made use of Llandaff’s wonderful cathedral scenery. The scene in The Family of Blood where John and Joan
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get married use one of the Cathedral’s archways as a focal point, as well as using cottages and interiors in St Fagans’ Natural History Museum for some scenes. Human Nature, also of the third series, which starred David Tennant as The Doctor, made excellent use of St Fagans’ old buildings and greenery as well as the inside of Llandaff Cathedral for many scenes. The most recent series of the show was filmed around Llandaff Cathedral and the nearby green, most recognisable in Vincent and The Doctor and The Eleventh Hour. Llandaff itself was recently transformed into a ‘typical English village’ called Leadworth. Spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood have both carried out filming around the Llandaff area, further cementing the area’s vast connection with Doctor Who and its franchise, which began in the 1960s with Terry Nation and his Daleks. Joanna Cawley is a third year English Language student at Cardiff University
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