Cardiff 2006

Outside Cardiff Central station, looking towards the Bus Station, behind is the Millennium Stadium and BT Tower	The main entrance to Cardiff Central station	Building near Cardiff Central	Cardiff Bus Station	St Mary Street
St David's Hall, this arts venue is a massive Neo-Brutalist edefice	Queen Street		Cardiff Bay	Cardiff Millennium Centre, one of the city's most famous landmarks
		The new Welsh Assembly building	Cardiff Bay	Cardiff Pierhead Building
	New office buildings in Cardiff Bay. The bay has became a popular tourist destination but it is very bleak on a cold and wet December day!
	The circular building is the Cardiff Bay Tourist Information Centre	Lloyd George Avenue	Queen Street	Queen Street
Cardiff Castle		North Road.		Boulevard De Nantes. The main civic buildings are on the left hand side, the Law Courts to the far left and the City Hall behind
Cardiff City Hall	A large Ferris Wheel near the City Hall	National Museum of Wales	Part of the University campus
	Bute Park		The River Taff. The Millennium Stadium can be seen beyond the bridge
		The walk along the riverside past the Millennium Stadium	Millennium Stadium
Millennium Stadium	A long-disused water tower by the railway	Cardiff Bus Station	Millennium Stadium and the BT Tower	Bus Station
Eye catching new flats	The rather dated St David's Centre, a massive shopping centre.	Cine World, a huge multiplex cinema	St David's Cathedral	The Hays, with the huge St David's Hall on the left
This building is probably gone now, as it is being cleared along with a lot of adjacent buildings to make way for an extension to the shopping centre.	This building is condemned too	The buildings on both sides of this street are being cleared.	A long-closed shopping arcade, due to be redeveloped	Cardiff Central Library, now closed. The building is also due to be redeveloped.
Car park near the library	View from the top of the car park	A rooftop view of some of the condemned buildings		More shops soon to be gone.
This building is also part of the redevelopment scheme, despite it's modern facade	The Hays. On the left here are a series of great Victorian shopping arcades	The next day, I had a look around Swansea. This is a very nice square	Swansea Castle	This 'What! Pound Store' looks like its days are numbered
Retail architecture	Swansea's splendid market hall closely resembles a railway station	Outside the market hall	Looking East	Looking West, the building on the right in the foreground is a Tesco supermarket while beyond it in the centre of the shot is the council office.
Another ferris wheel! They seem to be all the rage at Christmas time now.	This leisure centre is being stripped right back to the frame and refurbished	Another lightship. This quay is very pleasant indeed
	The hillsides with their houses stretching off into the distance give Swansea a special character	The beach at Swansea. Definitely not worth going for a dip when I visited as it was freezing cold and probably the windiest place I have ever been!
		Swansea;s "Grand" Theatre, a hideous Postmodern eyesore that blots out the view of the hills		The back of the hotel I was staying in
One of the Victorian arcades. I bought some fantastic old second hand architectural books from one of the shops in here.	St Mary Street	BT Tower	Westgate Street, the building at the end in the centre is a Wetherspoon's pub but it used to be a theatre	Western Mail & Echo building
The entrance to Cardiff's superb market	Inside Cardiff Market Hall	Main entrance to the Millennium Stadium	Another Brutalist NCP car park, something Cardiff seems to have a lot of	Cardiff Castle
	This is one of Cardiff's highest office buildings	A back street	Brains Brewery, just to the South of Cardiff Central Station.	Cardiff Central Station. A Class 142 "Pacer" train mwaits for passengers to board. These aging units are used a lot on branch lines in South Wales.
Barry Island, no doubt a lovely place in the summer but rather bleak and deserted in December.			The only remaining part of "White's Cosy Corner", Barry Island	The bridge to Barry Island
Barry Island railway station		Cardiff Central car park	Brains brewery	Cardiff Central Station
Bridge Street. This scene will be very different in a few months time when he redevelopment work begins

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