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113–116 Bute Street, previously the National Westminster Bank building, built in 1926–27. This is a Grade II* listed building; 117 Bute Street, was previously the Docks Non-Political Club and the Baltimore Hotel. 122–124 Bute Street, built 1947. 125 Bute Street, built in 1847 for Powell Duffryn who later moved to 54 Bute Street.
The act was passed in March of that year, and the first government-run liquor stores were opened on June 15, 1921 – the same day the Prohibition Act was repealed. Within the first week of the Government Liquor Act becoming law, 17 stores had been opened; by March 1922 at least one store had been opened in 32 of the 39 provincial electoral ...
Lloyd George Avenue (Welsh: Rhodfa Lloyd George), originally known as Bute Avenue, is an avenue in Cardiff, Wales. Roughly one mile long, the road links the Inner Harbour of Cardiff Bay to Cardiff city centre and forms part of the A470 road. It runs parallel to Bute Street and the Butetown Branch Line.
A Greek Orthodox church still stands at the top of Bute Street. It is known as one of the "five towns of Cardiff", the others being Crockherbtown, Grangetown, Newtown and Temperance Town. The population of the ward and community taken at the 2011 census was 10,125. [1] It is estimated that the Butetown's population increased to 14,094 by 2019. [2]
Callaghan Square, city centre, previously known as Bute Square. Central Square, city centre, included the bus station between 1954 and 2015. Loudoun Square, Butetown; Mount Stuart Square, Butetown; Roald Dahl Plass, Cardiff Bay.
The area which Mount Stuart Square currently occupies was originally coastal mudflat. [2] In its present form, it is an urban area, bordered by the A4119 James Street, a major road to the south, early twentieth century social housing to the north (on a site which had previously been used as a rail yard), historic commercial properties to the east on West Bute Street, and the historic ...
During the 1840s the Marquess of Bute created the residential area of Butetown, to house workers for the new Cardiff Docks. [1] After his death (in 1848), and the death in 1852 of the owner of a glassworks on the site, land was acquired between West Bute Street (to the east) and the Glamorganshire Canal (to the west) to create a large square of three-storey decorative houses. [2]
Charles Street, named after the landowner (and twice Cardiff mayor) Charles Vachell, was originally built in the 1840s as luxury housing. [8] When Cardiff's new drainage was being devised, in 1849, Charles Street was described as Cardiff's "principal street". [11] It joins the north side of Queen Street about halfway along its length.