Cardiff Street Names

[drachir]

Apologies for bringing up an old thread, but I felt my favourite street names in the world deserved a mention:
Fortran Rd., Pascal Close and COBOL Rd., all in St. Mellons around IBM!

 

[Infidel Castro]

I quite like Cyntwell Crescent as well...

Nice call! Say it the Cymraeg way . My old man grew up down that neck of the woods and my grandfather settled there from Yorkshire after the war with my Nan who was local to the other side of town.

I like the twinning connection in town with Boulevard de Nantes and Stuttgart Strasse...but I get confused as to why Dumfries Place is in there. Have we been twinned with Dumfries or is it yet another Scottish connection through the Butes and the like?

 

[slick]

Slick

Mr Archie Sinclair was the first headmaster of Howardian when the school transferred from Howard Gardens (The original name)now an art college.
Archie originated from Yorkshire and his favourite saying was MY SCHOOL IS SECOND TO NONE the other masters are all named on the estate off Colchester Ave.
Frank Baber Geography
R.A. Jones Maths and future Headmaster
Tom Foster Goegraphy
the list goes on Miss Curtis was the Headmistress of Lady Margaret which was Howardian sister school now demolished and the estate was build in its grounds

 

[1927]

Nice call! Say it the Cymraeg way . My old man grew up down that neck of the woods and my grandfather settled there from Yorkshire after the war with my Nan who was local to the other side of town.

I like the twinning connection in town with Boulevard de Nantes and Stuttgart Strasse...but I get confused as to why Dumfries Place is in there. Have we been twinned with Dumfries or is it yet another Scottish connection through the Butes and the like?

the Butes were the earls of Dumfries iirc.

Johnny Dumfries, the Formula 1 driver is the current Marquis of Bute. They had a local pad at what is now the golf course at end of 5 mile lane, Cottrell Park.

Dumfries place was, when I was a kid, a row of Victorian terraced houses/offices. I remember once a month my father would have to go up there to pay the mortgage at an agency of the Woolwich which was in the basement of a house/office which was where the multi story car park is now.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Interesting stuff.

I'm waiting for Xiamen Square to be built, or Baltimore Basin in the bay. I think another we have is Horgaland, Norway. I like the Norwegian connection. Have they stopped giving us a Christmas Tree now, the Norwegians?

 

[ddraig]

still get the tree afaik

 

[Infidel Castro]

I just recall that we have a naff pretend tree on Queen St these days, a mesh with stuff stuck to it. I assume the proper one is outside of City Hall.

 

[Kismet]

Slick

Mr Archie Sinclair was the first headmaster of Howardian when the school transferred from Howard Gardens (The original name)now an art college.
Archie originated from Yorkshire and his favourite saying was MY SCHOOL IS SECOND TO NONE the other masters are all named on the estate off Colchester Ave.
Frank Baber Geography
R.A. Jones Maths and future Headmaster
Tom Foster Goegraphy
the list goes on Miss Curtis was the Headmistress of Lady Margaret which was Howardian sister school now demolished and the estate was build in its grounds

Tom Foster was not Geography. When I was there he mainly taught Latin, but he also taught a number of other languages, almost certainly Greek and French. If I remember correctly, in Floreat Howardia, it is stated that he taught five subjects to 'A' Level, but I think it's highly unlikely that Geog. was one of them.

 

[shygirl]

All the streets where Howardian High School was are named after ex teachers, only told of that the other day.

My brother went to Howardian, must tell him about this.