Whitchurch and Llandaff Living Issue 12

AAtt tthhee hheeaarrtt ooff tthhee ccoommmmuunniittyy Issue 12March/April ‘11

The rays of the spring sun stretch across North Cardiff. As our villages emerge fromthe harsh winter, we look forward to new beginnings, fresh weather and warmth.EEnnjjooyy yyoouurr ffrreeee ccooppyy ooff WWhhiittcchhuurrcchh aanndd LLllaannddaaffff LLiivviinngg

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WHAT’SINSIDEInterview: Merv ‘The

Swerve’ Davies

Llandaff: Home ofDr Who

Then and Now:Local Pubs

PolicingNorth Cardiff

Memories:Melingriffith Boys

Pets’ Page

Recipes

Local News

Crossword

Welcome

Whitchurch and Llandaff Living

Whitchurch and Llandaff Living & Rhiwbina LivingEditors/Advertising: Patric Morgan & Danielle DummettAddress: 222 Pantbach Road, Rhiwbina,

Cardiff CF14 6AGTel: 07772 081775 and 07974 022920Email: [email protected]: www.livingmags.co.uk

While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of thecontents, the publisher cannot accept any responsibility forerrors or omissions, or for any matter in any way arising fromthe publication of this material. Every effort has been made tocontact any copyright holders. Whitchurch and Llandaff Living isan independent, apolitical publication.

Advertising booking and copy deadline for Issue 13 - 22nd April 2011. Issue 13 publication date - mid May2011.Whitchurch and Llandaff Living is published 5 times ayear.

3, 4 NewsThe latest news from the area

5 LettersLetters to the Editors

5 CompetitionWin tickets to see Corrie! at the WMC

8 Interview:Wales and Lions legend Mervyn Davies

12 Melingriffith BoysMemories of a by-gone era

16 Local PubsThen and Now

22 Out and AboutDr Who in Llandaff

25 Pets’ PageLocal vet Chris Troughtonanswers your pet questions

27 Policing NorthCardiffMeet your local bobbies at Whitchurch Police Station

30 Crossword

Welcome to your early spring issue of Whitchurch and LlandaffLiving - the official magazine for Whitchurch, Llandaff and LlandaffNorth.Spring is finally on its way and not before time! We’ve been busyover the winter period, planning for the year ahead. This is now ourfourth year of publication, and to celebrate the safe arrival ofco-editor Danielle’s baby girl, we’re launching our own little sisterpublication for the Llandaff suburb of Danescourt. Danescourt Living will replace the Danescourt News, which hadbeen 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 LlandaffLiving to brighten up your day. We recently held a photo competitionon our website, and Steve Burnett’s wonderful photo of a kingfisherat 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 SteveNicholas’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 andthe popular TV series, Dr Who on page 22. Melingriffith is fondly remembered by two ‘Melingriffith boys’, andwe’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 newssection, and of course, the ever-popular crossword. Please remember to support our advertisers, without whom, yourfree issue of Living Magazines would not be possible.See you in May!

Editors

WelcomeCroeso

Patric and Danielle

Cover photograph by Steve Burnett

with Bill Farnham

I am often asked “Why are wein Cardiff West NeighbourhoodAssociation when we live inCardiff North?”. Let meexplain.There are two NWAs inCardiff - East and West. InCardiff West NWA, we coverthe following areas: Butetown(including Cardiff Bay),Canton, Creigiau, Danescourt,Ely, Fairwater, Gabalfa,Grangetown, Gwaelod-y-Garth, Leckwith, Llandaff,Llandaff North, Michaelston,Morganstown, Pentyrch,Pontcanna, Radyr, St. Fagans,The Drope, Tongwynlais andWhitchurch.Two areas in Whitchurchhave expressed an interest insetting up a NeighbourhoodWatch. Hopefully as soon as Ireceive more information, wecan get these Watches up andrunning.The next meeting of CardiffWest NWA is on the 16th Mayat Fairwater ConservativeClub, Ely Road, Llandaff,starting at 7pm. At thismeeting, we hope to have arepresentative from CardiffPrison as our guest speaker.All Neighbourhood WatchCo-ordinators and Watchmembers are invited. The next PACT meeting forthe Whitchurch andTongwynlais area will be onthe 1st March at theCommunity Centre, OldChurch Road, Whitchurch. Themeeting starts at 7pm. Call 02920 527301 if you areinterested in setting up aNeighbourhood Watch.

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NEIGHBOURHOODWATCH UPDATE


WHITCHURCH ALL SEWN UP BY WI

Whitchurch Women’s Institutehave recently unveiled aspectacular banner, mappingthe entire village of Whitchurch.The banner took two years tocomplete, and involved thework of 25 women.

Women’s Institutespokesperson, Sylvia Richards,told Living Magazines:“The map highlights some ofthe landmarks of the area,ranging from the AmericanMemorial on the Common, tothe hospital in the north of thevillage. “We all worked on variousparts of the banner, beforepiecing it together. It took us along time to finish, but we allagree that the banner hasrecorded a moment in time thatothers can appreciate in futuregenerations.”

LOCAL TAKEAWAY TASTES SUCCESS

AFC Whitchurch under 9sfootball team have kicked off2011 with a new sponsorshipdeal. Thanks to Tom Thumb’sSweets & Fancy Dress shop inWhitchurch, the team of boys

and girls are sporting new kits,complete with club and sponsorlogos.Tom Thumb’s is run by TomChamp, who agreed to sponsorthe young footballers after anapproach from a parent.

The players of AFC Whitchurch Under 9sin their new kit.

AFC WHITCHURCH’S SWEET NEW SPONSORSHIP

A north Cardiff takeaway haswon the prestigious title of‘South Wales’ Best Takeaway2011’ in Media Wales’ Foodand Drink Awards. The Gateway of India in

Rhiwbina was described as a‘gem of a takeaway’. Customers can buy ready-made dishes to cook at home.The shop opened for businessin 1995.

Residents of Whitchurch,Llandaff and Llandaff Northare being reminded that, asfrom 1st October 2011,shoppers will be charged atleast 5p for a bag whereverthey shop in Wales. The charge will apply in allshops including clothesstores, take away food outletsand restaurants, corner shopsand market stalls. It will alsoapply when goods aredelivered in Wales, such asdot.com groceries.Explaining the new charge,a spokesperson for the WelshAssembly Government toldLiving Magazines: “During 2009 in Wales, wetook home an estimated 350million carrier bags from themajor supermarkets alone.Bags are bad for theenvironment, create litter andharm wildlife. The AssemblyGovernment is introducing thecharge to drastically reducethe number of bags we use inWales.”More information can befound atwww.carrierbagchargewales.gov.uk. Shoppers can alsoemail: [email protected] or phone 02920 826230.

Are there any unwanted toolsin your shed or garage?The Rotary Club of Cardiff iscollecting old, second hand orbroken tools used forgardening, carpentry, building,tailoring etc.The tools are repaired andrefurbished in workshops inCrickhowell, and then sent tocommunities in Tanzania,Uganda, Ghana andZimbabwe for the charity“Tools for Self Reliance”. Theyorganise skills training projectsfor carpenters, tailors,blacksmiths, mechanics,builders and other artisans. The aim is to give localartisans the tools and trainingthey need to earn a living and

to help build their communities.If you have any unwantedtools such as a spade, fork,hoe, secateurs, hammer,chisel, saw, sewing machineetc, please contact DavidThomas on Cardiff 20614242or [email protected]. The Rotary Club ofCardiff would be pleased toorganise a collection within theCardiff area.


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ROYAL WEDDING

A group of shop-keepers andbusiness owners are calling onWhitchurch locals to helpcelebrate the Royal Weddingthis spring.George Lazarou is hopingthat Whitchurch Common canbe the site for a day toremember on Friday 29th April,when Prince William marrieshis long-term girlfriend KateMiddleton.“We made a big effort atChristmas to turn our villageinto a Winter Wonderland andwe’re hoping that the residentsof Whitchurch can once againjoin in the party atmosphere.”

FARMERS’ MARKET

The Farmers’ Market inLlandaff North has proved sucha great success following a trialperiod in December, that it isnow opening on a permanentbasis.The market is run by theaward-winning RiversideCommunity MarketAssociation, and has openedmarkets across Cardiff,including Roath and Rhiwbina.The market offers locals thevery best fresh produce, and isheld every two weeks in thecar park of the Railway pub onStation Road (3pm - 6.30pm)The forthcoming dates foryour diary are: March: 11th and 25th April: 8th and 22nd May: 6th and 20th


Letters to the Editors Keep your letters coming!Address on the inside

front cover

Letters/Competition

Dear EditorsI picked up Whitchurch andLlandaff Living issue 11 whilevisiting my daughter overChristmas. It has a lot ofinterest generally for locals -well done.Though I live in the LakeDistrict, I have a close interestin Whitchurch andMelingriffith, so Les Gibbon'sMore Memories of Melingriffithis particularly interesting. I have met Les and been

shown his fantasticphotograph collection.My interest stems fromChristopher James (1751-1837) who had a shop inWhitchurch and worked atMelingriffith - presumablyabout the time the Pumpwas built. His greatgranddaughter marriedEdward Pritchard Martin whowas responsible for building‘Dowlais by the Sea’ - the East Moors Steel Works.I think he had an interest in

Melingriffith Tinplate Works atone time. I am his greatgrandson and was born atDowlais.Stuart CresswellThrelkeldCumbria

PS. There are many Jamesburied in St Mary's oldchurchyard and my daughterlives in Heol Don whereChristopher James lived 200years ago!

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The craggy features onthe face of Merv ‘TheSwerve’ Davies are very

much the same as they were inthe ‘70s. Hands like shovelsand shoulders as broad as theTawe, his 6ft 3 frame sitsawkwardly on the pub chair. Opposite him is John Dawes,architect perhaps of thelegendary Golden Period ofWelsh rugby. To his right isBarry John, regarded by manyas the finest outside-half of alltime. Mervyn’s famousMexican moustache has longgone, and his deep, dark eyescrawl around the historicsporting pictures on the wall ofthe Butcher’s Arms, Llandaff,

as he recalls his childhood inSwansea.“Penlan County School was anew school. There wasn’t ablade of grass in sight so weall played soccer. It wasn’t untilI passed my 11+, that I triedmy hand at rugby. The schoolhad no history of sporting oracademic success and I hadno recognition for anything Idid there. I went on to doteacher training, and moved toLondon to ply my trade as aschool master. I played for OldGuildfordians where we playedsome god-awful rugby.“I then joined London Welshin 1968. The team was full oftalent and quickly became

renowned for its free-flowingstyle of rugby. JPR and Geraldwere there. We were hated onboth sides of the bridge ofcourse. The English hated usbecause we were those ‘Welshbastards’, holed up in theircountry; and the Welsh hatedus because we’d sold oursouls to the English. Webecame everyone’s target.“But you’ve got to rememberthat this was the late ‘60s, theage of flower power, magicmushrooms and free love. Lifewas good – for me at any rate.”Mervyn’s first Welsh capcame in 1968 against Scotlandat Murrayfield, which Waleswent on to win 17-3.

TheSwerveKnown as Merv ‘The Swerv

e’, former Wales and British Lions No.8 Mervyn

Davies was one of the stars of the glorious Wales sides

of the 1970s and was

a key man in both the 1971 and 1974 British Lions se

ries wins.

Instantly recognisable with his trademark white headba

nd,

Mervyn stands out as one of Wales’s rugby greats.


Interview

Photograph © Getty Images


“I don’t remember muchabout the game. JPR Williams,who was with me at LondonWelsh was getting his first captoo, so there was a greatsense of camaraderie betweenus both. We were both in ittogether. The memory thatsticks with me the most issimply standing on the pitchand thinking ‘Is this reallyhappening to me?’. I’d comefrom total obscurity, havingonly joined London Welsh sixweeks earlier, and yet here Iwas, stood on the pitch playingfor Wales. “I had one objective thatgame, and it became aphilosophy that I took intoevery game: to eliminate errorsfrom my own performance. Wewon the game and I never gotdropped after that.”Mervyn went on to play 38consecutive games for Walesuntil 1976 (when his careerwas cruelly cut short by a brainhaemorrhage during a clubgame for Swansea, which hehad joined in 1972). During thistime, Mervyn won two GrandSlams and three TripleCrowns.Mervyn unfurls and lets out agreat roar of laughter at thesuggestion that he has beencited as the Best Ever Welshcaptain. “Did you hear thatJohn? Best-ever captain ofWales!”John Dawes, sat oppositehim, splutters on his drink andspits it back into his glass.“You’re joking aren’t you? Ican think of at least 10 or 11better captains than him!”The facts speak forthemselves however. In a pollof Welsh rugby fans in 2002,Mervyn was voted both‘Greatest Ever Welsh Captain’and ‘Greatest Ever Welsh

Number 8’. In 2001 he wasinducted into the InternationalRugby Hall of Fame.“Times were tough back inthe ‘70s you know. The nationwas going through a lot withindustrial unrest. There was ahell of a lot of expectation onus as players, and on me ascaptain to succeed. It was anadded incentive if you like, butit was hard on us. If we didlose, the nation would go intomourning.”The pressure was cranked upeven further when Mervyn wasselected to play for the 1971British and Irish Lions tour ofNew Zealand. But as a hard-runner and an aggressivetackler, Mervyn had thehandling capabilities to linkforward and back play, andkeep the Lions on the front footagainst formidable opposition.His abilities at the back of thelineout prompted New Zealandlegend Colin ‘Pine Tree’ Meadsto claim that the Welshmanhad the All Blacks ‘donkeylicked’ during the Lions’ onlyever series win in NewZealand. Mervyn also toured on theinfamous 1974 tour of SouthAfrica, which again, was asuccess for the tourists.“Playing for the Lions, is forany rugby player, the zenith oftheir career. 40 years since the’71 tour to New Zealand, it’ssometimes mind-boggling tothink that no other team inhistory, either before or after,has won a series in NewZealand. To be part of anachievement like that is suchan honour – it can’t be takenaway from me. It was alsounique in that this was a timewhen rugby was amateur. Youhad to have an understandingemployer, which was

fortunately, something that Ihad in my teaching career. Butspending 14 weeks away fromhome meant that, for the firsttime, we could focus purely onthe rugby. We felt likeprofessionals, even if weweren’t paid. We could honeour skills and taste what it waslike to live as a rugby player.”As Mervyn is speaking, BarryJohn pick-pockets Mervyn’sbus pass from his jacket andpasses it round like a naughtyschoolboy. Mervyn’s gianthand swoops down and swipesthe pass clean out of Barry’shand. Age has not slowed thedeftness of his handlingabilities.“Rugby is a distant memory.I’ve been there, done that. Gotthe T-shirt. I’m not an avidsupporter of any particularteam and for me watching thegame is way down on my list oflife’s pleasures. That’s not tosay that I dislike the game. Theproud tradition of Welsh rugbywill continue forever and goodluck to them.“But for me, the game isabout abiding memories -mostly sounds. The noise thatthe crowd generated was aphysical thing. It would pickyou up and move you, sweepyou across the field, and carryyou across the park. Duringbreaks of play, you’d standthere, literally swaying in theswirling concoction of noise. Itis something that will stay withme forever.”

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those in other further educationcolleges in Wales. The college hassustained this high level ofperformance over the last threeyears. Its overall performance placesit among the highest-performingcolleges in Wales. The college alsoperforms very well when comparedwith outcomes for sixth-form collegesin England.”Among the reasons the inspectionteam gave for grading the college sohighly included the fact that studentsoften succeeded at a higher levelthan was predicted following theirGCSE results.The college’s honours programmewhich assists more able students inapplying to the top universities wasalso singled out for praise andinspectors pointed out that successat the college is not limited to thosefrom well-off backgrounds. Studentsin receipt of the educationalmaintenance allowance as a groupachieved an overall success rateabove that achieved by those who donot receive the allowance.The report concluded that learningexperiences were excellent overall as was the work of the senior leadershipteam and the care, support and

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My early memories as a fouryear old are of our twoterraced cottages. They had,from memory, three bedrooms,one living room and a rearscullery which would now becalled a kitchenette. We hadno bathroom, no running waterand no electricity. We relied onparaffin lamps for light. Outside, there was acommunal hand water-pumpwhich was shared by threefamilies – the Hopkins, theRichards next door, and theYoungs who were the farmers. In my family were my mum,my dad Ned, and my two elderbrothers – Ron who was tenyears older and Bill my seniorby eight years. There wasanother brother, Teddy, whodied aged ten whileundergoing surgery at CardiffRoyal Infirmary.Phil Young worked on myfather’s farm. They told methat, as a nosey youngster, Iwould follow him everywhere.

One morning, I was watchingthe milking and stood too nearthe cow’s tail. Phil lifted the tailand I was at once coveredfrom head to toe in brownwatery mess. I looked like agingerbread man! Phil carried me back to mymother, who stripped myclothes off and washed themuck off me under thecommunal cold water pump.Luckily, the summers werewarmer in those days.On another occasion, Philwent on his horse and cart, tocollect some hay from thebarn. As he forked the hayonto the cart, he disturbed acourting couple. The girlscreamed, they both jumpeddown and ran off laughing.Phil chased them and warnedthem not to trespass on thefarm again. In my innocence, Iwondered what it was allabout.Our outside toilet, which wasat the very end of the gardenwas a sort of mobile shed. Ithad four wheels and fourhandles, like a rickshaw. Myfather would dig a large hole inthe garden, throw a bag of

lime into it, and then movethe shed over the hole. Insidethe shed, Dad built a longwooden seat with a hole cutout in the middle. That was ourtoilet. After a month or so, hewould move it along and diganother hole.With no running water tobathe, we had a longgalvanised tin bath which myparents would fill with bucketsof water heated up on theopen coal or wood fires.My father was good with hishands. He built us goalpostswith nets for us to play footballand made a swing with ropeand a wooden swing seat,swinging from the branch of atree. The Youngs had abilliards or snooker table in theupstairs of their barn!In 1935, we moved to No.4,Heol Booker, and the cottageswere demolished. We thoughtthat our new council housewas quite posh. We had atoilet, a bathroom with hot andcold running water, a gascooker, electric lighting and awireless with a battery thathad to be charged.

Ken Hopkins was

born at Forest Farm

in 1930

Melingriffith BoysHistory


There was a large garden frontand back. The rest of the landtowards the tinplate works wasall allotments. My father hadthree up on the Batter, beyondthe rugby club (as was). My father was very friendlywith Billy Williams who liveddown in the Lock House. Hisbrothers Griff and Tommyworked as mill men in theMelingriffith Tinplate Workswith my family and twobrothers. This was of course,pre-war. My father and Billybuilt stables and a shed forBilly’s cart. He was known asBill the Fish because he madedeliveries of fresh fish andvegetables to all the houses.One day, when I was lookingbored, as a seven or eightyear old, Billy asked me if Iwould like to ride to barebackon his smaller horse. “Yesplease!” I said (I had neverridden on a horse in my life!). So Billy lifted me up and toldme to walk him slowly aroundthe top of the Batter. I wasdoing OK but then a dog camebarking at us. The horsestarted to trot and thengalloped towards VelindreRoad. I fell off where the newrugby club is now. I was unhurtbut the horse carried ontowards the road and turnedsharp left down the hill in thedirection of Llandaff North. Iran as quickly as I could toBilly, shouting that the horsehad bolted down the hill. Both my father and Billyrushed through the smallwoods, down to the road,almost by Billy’s house and loand behold – there was thehorse, frothing at the mouth,steam rising from its body,waiting for its daily feed.

I would spend time with mygrandparents at a very earlyage in the late 1920s at theircottage. It has long beendemolished but it stood onTy-Mawr Road, Llandaff North,and was one of three or fourcottages virtually opposite theWilliams’ house abutting thecanal. I remember the early morningsound of the tin-workerstrampling past the cottage totheir work at the MelingriffithWorks, often with a white scarfround their neck to absorb thesweat from the heat at theirworkplace; memories also ofthe barges on the canal towedby a horse who would beunhitched at a bridge such asBand’s Bridge, for the barge topass under. The horse waitedon the other side to be re-hitched.The Isbergs lived the otherside of the locks. He waspresumably the lock-keeper,and it was in their house that Ifirst heard (at the age of four or five) the miracle of radio. By that I mean, a scratchy noiseemitted from a crystal set as it

was known in those days.The old water wheel on thefeeder at the back of theirhouse has probably long gone– sadly Mrs Isberg fell into thelock one dark night and wasdrowned. Many must havedrowned in the canal over theyears, including a very youngcousin of mine, who at the ageof 13 or 14, fell into the canallock near the Cow andSnuffers pub. I also havememories of walking down thecanal path towards the ‘Ton’(Tongwynlais), past the ‘SunnyBank’ cottages on the otherside, 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 akingfisher darting across thecanal from the Long Woodoften made me gasp. I believethat the kingfisher family arestill there – after some 80years!Yes – fond memories ofinnocence and pleasure in theearly thirties, unaware of whatwas to come: training inCanada as a bomb aimer andnavigator for the RAF, andthankfully, for my conscience,not having occasion to drop abomb before the war ended.

History

Desmond Morleywas born in the1920s and spent

many days on the

canal in the 1930s

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Whitchurch and Llandaff Living Issue 12

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