Grange history

PART FOUR: Here we're building up an index of streets - it's very much a work in progress at the moment - and will hopefully add some references about their history and any landmarks, and where to find them on the censuses, where applicable etc, for those looking for family or to research the history of their house. NB: Where street names have changed we have cross-referenced with modern and old names.

Locating Grangetown in censuses isn't always straightforward as its streets can be grouped in different districts - Canton, Leckwith and Llandaff. You can access 1841-1901 censuses online by subscribing to ancestry.co.uk (which can also be accessed at Cardiff libraries for library members). It's much easier to find streets directly by the online 1911 census here.

We hope to add more features and would welcome any stories, articles, memories or photographs. Please email us.

Go to PART ONE for Grangetown beginnings and 19th century growth

Go to PART TWO for 1930s and Second World War
Go to PART THREE for Transport, Shops, Sport and Entertainment and post-war

STREET NAME and approx date POINTS OF INTEREST CENSUS DETAILS (pre-1911)

Aber Street Houses date from 1922

Abercynon Street 1926-1931

Allerton Street 1887-1894 The Neville pub (dates from 1888)

Amherst Street First houses 1876 1881 - Llandaff 28b p58-69; 1901 - Canton, district 29

Avoca Place 1896 Including Mission Room. Old St Barnabas' church.

Avondale Crescent 1933-39

Avondale Road 1934-38

Bedwas Street

Blaenclydach Street 1895-1902

Bradford Street 1878-81 1881 - Llandaff 28b 106-112; 1901 - Canton, district 28

Bromfield Street 1876-78 1881 - Llandaff 29a p2 & 28b p116

Bromsgrove Street 1875-1882 1881 - Llandaff 28b p38

Cambridge Street 1876-1894, and 1938, and 1948-49 The clinic building dates from 1938. 1881 - Llandaff 29a p4; 1901 - Canton, district 29

Channel View 1939

Chester Place 1893-94

Chester Street 1891-93

Clare Road 1887-1898 Synagogue dated from 1898; new congregational chapel from 1900.

Clive Street c1876-1893 Grange Farm (parts of building date from medieval times) 1851 - Llandaff, district 5a, p47; 1881 - Llandaff 28b p113; 1901 - Canton, district 27, p33

Clydach Street 1896 YMCA building dates from 1909.

Coedcae Street 1895

Compton Street 1891-1896

Coombs Terrace c1870-80s, no longer there If you look at a map from the early to mid 1880s you can see a small terrace of homes, roughly where Avoca Place/Wedmore Rd stands today, standing on its own before the rest of the Saltmead area was built. The five homes were built by brickmaker Charles Coombs, four of which housed members of his family, and the terrace was given their name. Bristol-born Coombs had worked at a brickmaker in Newport before moving to Cardiff with his eight children. With two brickworks close by and the huge amount of building work, there was obviously a lot of demand in Cardiff. In 1881, Charles, 62, lived at No1 with wife Ann and son John, a fellow brickmaker, 34, and wife Annie, 37, and their daughter. Next door at No2, lived younger son Thomas, another brickmaker; Two other son Edward, 19, also in the trade and brother James, 16, lived at No3. Eldest son Charles, 38, lived with his wife and children in No 5. The terrace disappears off the map and by the 1890s, the families are living in Penarth Road and Eldon Rd (Ninian Park Road). 1881 census, Leckwith district 30, pages 42-44

Cornwall Street 1887-1893 Cornwall Hotel from 1894

Corporation Road 1894-96, 1923-28 and 1931

Court Road 1887-1894

Cymmer Street 1896

Devon Place 1893

Devon Street 1887-1892

Dinas Street 1908-1915 St Samson's church dates from 1920.

Dorset Street 1887-1894

Durham Street 1892-93

Earl Street 1882-84 1881 - Llandaff 28b p39-43; 1901 - Canton, district 29

Ferndale Street 1895-96

Ferry Road 1884 and 1945 Gasworks (1881, Llandaff 29a p9) 1881 - Llandaff 29a p7.
Francis Street/Terrace 1860s renamed Franklen Street Grange Inn 1861 - Llandaff, Cardiff (district 20, p1)

Grange Gardens 1901 St Patrick's RC church dates from 1930

Hafod Street 1913-1915
Havelock Street/Place
Herbert Street 1881 - Llandaff 28b p1-4

Hereford Street 1887-1896

Hewell Street 1881 - Llandaff 28b p70-92; 1901 - Canton, district 27, p41

Holmesdale Street 1877-1897 Holmesdale Street to many is the heart of Grangetown, stretching from Grange Gardens to Ferry Road, with a network of terraces off it, with shops and local schools. Back in 1881 ,the census in that year shows a Londoner, Edward Smith ran the Plymouth Hotel at one end of the road with his wife and five children living there, with three servants and a nurse employed. Living nearby were migrant workers from Somerset, Gloucester and other parts - builders, two blacksmiths next door to each other - one who had a game-keeper as the lodger, one Robert Iles, 50. An iron moudler father and son, Thomas Gillard, one of two nearby grocers (and another native of Somerset) - his neighbours, Fred Denham a railway clerk and cab driver Alfred Gough were also from the west country. There were also two green grocers, including Eleanor Wilkie, 60, a widow and mother of two, whose teenage son John was a seaman. At No 48, there was another grocer, Owen Jones, 70, a native of Aberaeron, while at No 78, is the appropriately named William Hook, the butcher, 54, and yet another from Somerset. George Blake ran the Lord Windsor pub at No 47 - which shut a few years ago and is currently facing demolition. There are plenty of dock labourers and coal trimmers (loading coal onto ships) of course. Showing the distances people had travelled, is mariner David King, a native of Sydney, Australia, who had moved from Cornwall with his wife and son, while having a young daughter after their move to Cardiff. 1881 Census under District 28b, Llandaff, p4-22.

Jubilee Street (see Stoughton Street)

Kent Street 1875-1886 1881 - Llandaff 28b p44-57

Knole Street c1870s 1881 - Llandaff 29a p9-23; 1901 - Canton, district 28

Llanmaes Street 1889-1898

Lucknow Street By 1861, 1870s-1880s London Style Inn, at No 1 (c1875-1950s) 1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p19-20; 1881 Census - Leckwith District 30, p39-44

Ludlow Street 1876-77 1881 - Llandaff 28b p92-100; 1901 - Canton, district 29

Madras Street (demolished)

Mardy Street1902-1916 The old dance hall, now part of the Hindu temple, dates from 1922.

Merches Gardens 1915-18. The name Merches derives from a large piece of land on the West Moors, just west of the Dumballs

Merches Place 1913-18 The Hebrew Hall dates from 1914

Monmouth Street 1887-1896

Moordale Road 1934-38

Newport Street 1881 - Llandaff 28b p101-105; 1901 - Canton, district 28

North Street Pub at No 8 and police constables living at No 10 by 1861 1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20 p4-5

North Clive Street 1882-1896

Oakley Place

Oakley Street 1870s 1881 - Llandaff 28b p22-37; 1901 - Canton, district 27

Paget Street 1894-97

Penarth Road c1877-1897

Pendyris Street Tram depot (now council vehicle depot), the Avana bakery, 1902-2005; laundry now demolished

Penhevad Street 1894-98

Pentre Street 1906-1909

Redlaver Street 1887-1892

Rookwood Street
Rosemary Street 1860s 1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p15-19

Rutland Street 1887-90

St Fagans Street 1901 - Canton, district 28

Saltmead Road (later Stafford Road) 1888-1894

Sevenoaks Street 1881 - Llandaff 29a p1 and 29b; 1901 - Canton, district 28

Somerset Street 1894-96 1881 - Llandaff 29a p1 and 23.

South Clive Street

Stafford Road (see Saltmead Road)

Stockland Street 1892-1895
Named after Stockland Farm, part of the Plymouth lands at St Fagan's

Stoughton Street (later Jubilee St and Sussex Street) 1888-1891

Sussex Street (see Stoughton Street)

Taff Embankment 1897-99, also 1923-1932

Thomas Street Houses from 1860s, also 1876-1878, replaced in 1970s 1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p6-15

Van Street 1891 - Canton District 47a, p28

Virgil Street 1939

Warwick Street 1888-92

Wedmore Road 1894-97

Worcester Street 1901 - Canton, district 27, p41

1851: The census has farmers, labourers and freeholders in the Leckwith district and Grange Farm listed in the Llandaff district (5a).

LOCAL HISTORY RESOURCES:
Cardiff Library members can now access Victorian newspapers online from home, including the Western Mail from 1869 to 1899. You need to log on to the Cardiff e-library with your membership number and password. You can also access Ancestry.co.uk through your library membership log-in. For visitors, the Central library, currently in temporary accommodation in John Street, also has old newspapers on microfiche, as well as old documents and directories for reference - all in the Local Interest section on the first floor. Grangetown Library in Havelock Place has a selection of Cardiff history books.
The Cardiff Museum at the Old Library building in The Hayes houses regular local history exhibitions, amongs other shows. When We Were Young: growing up in Cardiff is running until January 2009. It's also trying to gather memories and photos for it's ongoing Collecting Cardiff project.
There is also the Glamorgan Records Office, based in Cathays Park but is due to move to a new building as part of the new Cardiff City stadium development. You can call in but it's often best to book a place in advance - the office has old archive documents, parish and estate records, original plans for houses and other buildings in Cardiff, as well as local directories and maps. You can also access censuses up to 1901. There are lockers for personal belongings, bring pencils not pens
Other useful links or interesting sites for local or family history include the Glamorgan Family History Society, which is useful for those both with family connections in the area or those with just an interest in history; ancestry.co.uk (subscription required for most services); GENUKI Cardiff, abandoned communities has details of old Temperance Town and Newtown in Cardiff.

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STREET NAME and approx date	POINTS OF INTEREST	CENSUS DETAILS (pre-1911)
Aber Street Houses date from 1922
Abercynon Street 1926-1931
Allerton Street 1887-1894	The Neville pub (dates from 1888)
Amherst Street First houses 1876		1881 - Llandaff 28b p58-69; 1901 - Canton, district 29
Avoca Place 1896	Including Mission Room. Old St Barnabas' church.
Avondale Crescent 1933-39
Avondale Road 1934-38
Bedwas Street
Blaenclydach Street 1895-1902
Bradford Street 1878-81		1881 - Llandaff 28b 106-112; 1901 - Canton, district 28
Bromfield Street 1876-78		1881 - Llandaff 29a p2 & 28b p116
Bromsgrove Street 1875-1882		1881 - Llandaff 28b p38
Cambridge Street 1876-1894, and 1938, and 1948-49	The clinic building dates from 1938.	1881 - Llandaff 29a p4; 1901 - Canton, district 29
Channel View 1939
Chester Place 1893-94
Chester Street 1891-93
Clare Road 1887-1898	Synagogue dated from 1898; new congregational chapel from 1900.
Clive Street c1876-1893	Grange Farm (parts of building date from medieval times)	1851 - Llandaff, district 5a, p47; 1881 - Llandaff 28b p113; 1901 - Canton, district 27, p33
Clydach Street 1896	YMCA building dates from 1909.
Coedcae Street 1895
Compton Street 1891-1896
Coombs Terrace c1870-80s, no longer there	If you look at a map from the early to mid 1880s you can see a small terrace of homes, roughly where Avoca Place/Wedmore Rd stands today, standing on its own before the rest of the Saltmead area was built. The five homes were built by brickmaker Charles Coombs, four of which housed members of his family, and the terrace was given their name. Bristol-born Coombs had worked at a brickmaker in Newport before moving to Cardiff with his eight children. With two brickworks close by and the huge amount of building work, there was obviously a lot of demand in Cardiff. In 1881, Charles, 62, lived at No1 with wife Ann and son John, a fellow brickmaker, 34, and wife Annie, 37, and their daughter. Next door at No2, lived younger son Thomas, another brickmaker; Two other son Edward, 19, also in the trade and brother James, 16, lived at No3. Eldest son Charles, 38, lived with his wife and children in No 5. The terrace disappears off the map and by the 1890s, the families are living in Penarth Road and Eldon Rd (Ninian Park Road).	1881 census, Leckwith district 30, pages 42-44
Cornwall Street 1887-1893	Cornwall Hotel from 1894
Corporation Road 1894-96, 1923-28 and 1931
Court Road 1887-1894
Cymmer Street 1896
Devon Place 1893
Devon Street 1887-1892
Dinas Street 1908-1915	St Samson's church dates from 1920.
Dorset Street 1887-1894
Durham Street 1892-93
Earl Street 1882-84		1881 - Llandaff 28b p39-43; 1901 - Canton, district 29
Ferndale Street 1895-96
Ferry Road 1884 and 1945	Gasworks (1881, Llandaff 29a p9)	1881 - Llandaff 29a p7.
Francis Street/Terrace 1860s renamed Franklen Street	Grange Inn	1861 - Llandaff, Cardiff (district 20, p1)
Grange Gardens 1901	St Patrick's RC church dates from 1930
Hafod Street 1913-1915
Havelock Street/Place
Herbert Street		1881 - Llandaff 28b p1-4
Hereford Street 1887-1896
Hewell Street		1881 - Llandaff 28b p70-92; 1901 - Canton, district 27, p41
Holmesdale Street 1877-1897	Holmesdale Street to many is the heart of Grangetown, stretching from Grange Gardens to Ferry Road, with a network of terraces off it, with shops and local schools. Back in 1881 ,the census in that year shows a Londoner, Edward Smith ran the Plymouth Hotel at one end of the road with his wife and five children living there, with three servants and a nurse employed. Living nearby were migrant workers from Somerset, Gloucester and other parts - builders, two blacksmiths next door to each other - one who had a game-keeper as the lodger, one Robert Iles, 50. An iron moudler father and son, Thomas Gillard, one of two nearby grocers (and another native of Somerset) - his neighbours, Fred Denham a railway clerk and cab driver Alfred Gough were also from the west country. There were also two green grocers, including Eleanor Wilkie, 60, a widow and mother of two, whose teenage son John was a seaman. At No 48, there was another grocer, Owen Jones, 70, a native of Aberaeron, while at No 78, is the appropriately named William Hook, the butcher, 54, and yet another from Somerset. George Blake ran the Lord Windsor pub at No 47 - which shut a few years ago and is currently facing demolition. There are plenty of dock labourers and coal trimmers (loading coal onto ships) of course. Showing the distances people had travelled, is mariner David King, a native of Sydney, Australia, who had moved from Cornwall with his wife and son, while having a young daughter after their move to Cardiff.	1881 Census under District 28b, Llandaff, p4-22.
Jubilee Street (see Stoughton Street)
Kent Street 1875-1886		1881 - Llandaff 28b p44-57
Knole Street c1870s		1881 - Llandaff 29a p9-23; 1901 - Canton, district 28
Llanmaes Street 1889-1898
Lucknow Street By 1861, 1870s-1880s	London Style Inn, at No 1 (c1875-1950s)	1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p19-20; 1881 Census - Leckwith District 30, p39-44
Ludlow Street 1876-77		1881 - Llandaff 28b p92-100; 1901 - Canton, district 29
Madras Street (demolished)
Mardy Street1902-1916	The old dance hall, now part of the Hindu temple, dates from 1922.
Merches Gardens 1915-18. The name Merches derives from a large piece of land on the West Moors, just west of the Dumballs
Merches Place 1913-18	The Hebrew Hall dates from 1914
Monmouth Street 1887-1896
Moordale Road 1934-38
Newport Street		1881 - Llandaff 28b p101-105; 1901 - Canton, district 28
North Street	Pub at No 8 and police constables living at No 10 by 1861	1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20 p4-5
North Clive Street 1882-1896
Oakley Place
Oakley Street 1870s		1881 - Llandaff 28b p22-37; 1901 - Canton, district 27
Paget Street 1894-97
Penarth Road c1877-1897
Pendyris Street	Tram depot (now council vehicle depot), the Avana bakery, 1902-2005; laundry now demolished
Penhevad Street 1894-98
Pentre Street 1906-1909
Redlaver Street 1887-1892
Rookwood Street
Rosemary Street 1860s		1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p15-19
Rutland Street 1887-90
St Fagans Street		1901 - Canton, district 28
Saltmead Road (later Stafford Road) 1888-1894
Sevenoaks Street		1881 - Llandaff 29a p1 and 29b; 1901 - Canton, district 28
Somerset Street 1894-96		1881 - Llandaff 29a p1 and 23.
South Clive Street
Stafford Road (see Saltmead Road)
Stockland Street 1892-1895 Named after Stockland Farm, part of the Plymouth lands at St Fagan's
Stoughton Street (later Jubilee St and Sussex Street) 1888-1891
Sussex Street (see Stoughton Street)
Taff Embankment 1897-99, also 1923-1932
Thomas Street Houses from 1860s, also 1876-1878, replaced in 1970s		1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p6-15
Van Street		1891 - Canton District 47a, p28
Virgil Street 1939
Warwick Street 1888-92
Wedmore Road 1894-97
Worcester Street		1901 - Canton, district 27, p41