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Where was the demolition photo taken, In Wales?

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Wed Sep 26th, 2007 at 03:10:43 AM EST
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well there's a Cardiff taxi in the foreground...

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Sep 26th, 2007 at 03:41:07 AM EST
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Of course! Am I blind?

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Wed Sep 26th, 2007 at 04:19:46 AM EST
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Yep, Cardiff city centre, the Hayes area.  A massive hole now exists where we used to have a small shopping arcade and some offices, county library, a car park, the outdoor fruit and veg market, a couple of roads, a big toy store and my ice rink.

It must have cost an obscene amount to acquire all of that land.  The already rather large St David's arcade (shopping centre) is going to be expanded into a Really Huge and Super shopping centre that no locals can afford to shop at. It's imaginatively named St David's 2. Wow.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 26th, 2007 at 04:25:57 AM EST
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Here are some photos taken last month from the windows of TKMaxx, which used to be David Morgans, established in the late 1800s (I think) and was an original department store, with a haberdashery department and everything.  It went out of business earlier this year or last year and has been converted into apartments (fancy having your apartment in the old lingerie department...) and shops, TKMaxx being one of them.

Here is the hole in the city centre.  The above demolition photo was taken from the left of the first photo below;

I must go back and take photos that actually line up properly, but I get weird looks from the staff in there... A new Borders book shop is opening next door which is a floor higher so I'll try there next time.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 26th, 2007 at 04:35:03 AM EST
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