In this collection of more than 200 photographs the Llandaff Society has sought to make a picture of Llandaff as it is at the start of the new millennium. We are looking forward not backward.
   When compiling their first book in the Archive Photographs series in 1996 the Llandaff Society team felt the lack of a comprehensive collection of pictures giving a picture of life in the nineteenth century. They have now compiled an archive for the end of the twentieth century, hoping this will benefit students in the future. Including bird and plant surveys, more than 3,000 photographs, and the replies to a questionnaire delivered to every household in the Llandaff Ward, this archive has been deposited in the county record office, where all except the personal replies (which are embargoed for 100 years) may be consulted.
   Selected from a massive collection, this present sequence of photographs and the archive exhibition look at different aspects of the village-city now incorporated in the capital city of Wales. The difference of age and style of the buildings, work and recreation, natural history, events connected with the Cathedral, state occasions and hobbies — everyone will find something of interest and perhaps some surprises in the variety of images and statistics presented.

Llandaff 2000: images of Wales
Tempus Publishing Limited
The Mill, Brimscombe Port, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 2QG
Tel 01453 883300 Fax 01453 883233

ISBN 0-7524-1600-6 £9.99 paperback, 128 pp

Gallery

Each image is selected from a chapter in our book.
Open screen-size images by double clicking on the thumbnails.

	Introduction The High Street was transformed in the 20th century by the building of terraces of shops, and by the growth in traffic
	Teaching and Learning Lower school classes at play at City of Llandaff Primary School
	Buying and Selling The largest of the three general stores in Llandaff is the Spar in the High Street
	Grouses and Grumbles Litter always defaces our surroundings and when large items are left out untouched the result is to be deplored
	Palaces and Terraces In the early 20th century there was a clear art nouveau influence on the choice of decorative features, such as the cast-iron worok of this verandah and its sash windown in Palace Road
	Coming and Going The BBC crèche outside the Post Office in the High Street.
	Bread and Butter Stephen Howarth and his colleagues pause for a moment during their busy working day
	Sports and Pastimes The Llandaff Rowing Club has three hundred members. It didn't rain on Regatta Day 1999
	Flora and Fauna A male blackbird on a Pencisely Road bird table. Blackbirds have been great survivors despite the decline in garden birds noted in recent years
	Church and State The Queen after the service for the inauguration of the National Assembly, 26 May 1999, attended by Captain Norman Lloyd-Edwards, lord lieutenant