Hello, I’m Chloe Hayden and today I’m going to be conveying to you the untold stories of Wales’ capital city, Cardiff and how its history and growth is unlike any other city in the world. Although Cardiff is in the top 10 biggest cities in the UK now, it hasn’t always been that way. Events such as the world wars and the industrial revolution has helped greatly to develop Cardiff from a small town to a large bustling city with attributes to rival larger cities such as London, although both London and Cardiff have grown massively in recent years each city they have each adapted to its growth in different ways.
In 2016, the population of Cardiff was approximately 358,400, which when compared to cities such as London which had a population of
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It also gave rise to the construction of the Glamorganshire Canal in 1794, which transported iron and coal down from the valleys. As this industry expanded it became obvious that a more efficient form of transport was required and in 1840 the Taff Vale Railway opened, which lead to Cardiff becoming the biggest coal exporting port in the world. The port reached its peak in 1913, with more than 10 million tons of coal being transported through the port. Around this time London lost its status as a port, due to the growth of industry the ships became too large to …show more content…
In the Heath area of the city close to Morrison’s supermarket, where now sits a new housing estate was once the location of a factory where bombs used in the world wars were produced. I have relatives who live in the Heath/Birchgrove area, whose street got bombed in the Second World War. You can still find remaining debris on the door steps of some of the houses.
Since then Cardiff has been redeveloped substantially with the regeneration of the city centre and the docks. Tiger Bay was then renamed Cardiff Bay and is a thriving waterside development. The development also Of the Millennium Stadium in the city centre has also helped transform Cardiff into a European capitol city along with Rome, Prague and Amsterdam etc.
Were you aware that the crossroads between Richmond road, Crwys road, Albany road and City road used to be a central point where prisoners were taken to be executed by hanging? Although, the number of sinister deaths that were there, are unknown. Next time you walk down Park Place, you may just see a remaining hook in one of the trees from when public execution was at its worst in medieval- Tudor times. Also, just down the road, the Cardiff University School of engineering was once a hospital where the government housed people suffering with
Finally in 1991, the federal government initiated a ‘Better Cities Program’ which aimed to make Australian cities sustainable and more liveable. It encoura...
In 1857 the first Pyrmont Bridge was built1 as a means of transporting goods between the docks, city and inner west of Sydney. The bridge then became a much needed utility, with the subdivision of much of Ultimo and Pyrmont in 18602 paving the way for hundreds of new sandstone cottages and terraces to be built over the next decade. This created the first major residential development of the area, which in itself helped to stimulate the economic and industrial growth, and was a part of the first urbanisation of the area.
Woop woop! Is the common sound heard in Beecher Terrace (housing apartments). There are 2.3 million people locked up in the United States. Kentucky spends about fifteen billion dollars per year incarcerating individuals from Beecher Terrace. Since the 1970’s the number of people locked up in the United States has grown from 300,000 to 2.3 million. Kentucky has been the center of this prison expansion. Charles McDuffie, Christel, Demetria, and Keith Huff all have something in common. Each of these individuals are repeat offenders, grew up or lived in Beech Terrace, and have some type of mental issue.
Case studies: The two case studies I have picked to focus my research on are; Derek Bentley who was the last man executed in Britain along with Ruth Ellis who was the last woman executed in Britain. Both of these executions were carried out by a man called Albert Pierrepoint. These two case studies both carry an interesting story with them which I am going to share with you using the sources I have gathered.
In the state of Durango Mexico in the late nineteenth century there was an old prison, which was located in what today is the center of the capital, called "The Death Cell because every prisoner who entered the cell 27 dawn mysteriously died. This distressed situation to jailers and prison authorities. the decision made was that this place is locked up only dangerous prisoners, because in this way would be doubly punished and in turn serve as a lesson to other criminals.
Throughout the history of country singers they’re has been many of them. It started out being a song about a lady going to the dances. Then it went to singing about their life’s and how they grew up. Now Todays County is about noting really, it’s about drinking and getting drunk and a bunch of non-sense. David Allen Coe was one of those good singers that sang about how he grew up.
The Book of Execution: An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution by Geoffrey Abbott Reprint edition (August 1995) Trafalgar Square
James Larkin was born on 21 January 1876 in Liverpool to Irish immigrant parents. Larkin had a hard life and lost his father at the age of 14. Jim married his wife Elizabeth Brown in 1903 and the pair had two children named James and Dennis. Over the years in his menial jobs, his interest in socialism became a career path and he even joined the Independent Labour Party. In 1905 he was one of the few foremen who joined the Liverpool dockers strike and lost his employment as a result. This however opened up doors for him the world of trade unionism. Not too long after the events in Liverpool, Larkin landed a permanent position with the National Union of Dock Labourers and went on to organize workers across the UK in the fight for workers rights.
My conclusion is a lesson that can be learned from the history of Birmingham, you can start with something small and with enough effort it will become big, but nothing will last forever. With Birmingham it started with a small market but with enough effort it turned into a big industrial centre, but it’s not the centre we know now, because it was ‘ruined’ by the interventions after WWI and WWII. But who knows? Maybe in 100 years it will be an industrial centre again!
Wales have challenges that they need to beat in usage in their country that is they want to develop property by enhancing the economic, social and environmental well being of individuals and communities. (Letsrecycle, 2010).
•In 1800 there were over 200 offences punishable by death including sheep stealing and doing damage to the Westminster Bridge
Harries, Keith, and Derral Cheatwood. The Geography of Execution. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., 1997.
This report benefited from the advice, guidance and examining of the best practice lessons of community collaboration in regeneration planning of Castle Vale. As assorted within the context of the new landscape for urban regeneration programme, it is therefore important to scrutinize the factors that brought success to Castle Vale regeneration programme and the challenges experienced with the hope to inform upcoming regeneration policies in the City of Birmingham or above and beyond.
Issue: Implications for sustainability, social justice and equality associated with the urban consolidation in Pyrmont (i.e. How economically and environmentally sustainable are the impacts of the issue and who are the winners and losers)
As previously implied, cities are currently the antithesis of even the barest sense of sustainability. To succinctly define the term “sustainability” would be to say that it represents living within one’s needs. When it comes to the city, with almost zero local sources of food or goods, one’s means is pushed and twisted to include resources originating far beyond the boundaries of the urban landscape. Those within cities paradoxically have both minimal and vast options when it comes to continuing their existence, yet this blurred reality is entirely reliant on the resources that a city can pull in with its constantly active economy.