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Cardiff Bay (2008) with part of the Porth Teigr brownfield site in the foreground. Porth Teigr (meaning: "Tiger Gate") [1] is an area under development in the docks area of Cardiff Bay, in the south of Cardiff, Wales. Its development began in 2008. The multi-use area will host the BBC drama village, with plans to link this to a new digital centre
On her album The Performance (2009), Shirley Bassey sings the semi-autobiographical "The Girl From Tiger Bay", written by the Manic Street Preachers and David Arnold. The album Tiger Bay (1994), by indie pop band Saint Etienne, is named after the 1959 film of the same name, which was filmed at the Cardiff docks. "Tiger Bay" is a song by The ...
Aerial view of Cardiff Bay area (early 2000s); Bute East Dock in the background, the Bay and Roath Basin in the foreground There are many listed buildings in Cardiff Bay, part of Cardiff, capital city of Wales. A listed building is one considered to be of special architectural, historical or cultural significance, and has restrictions on amendments or demolition. Buildings are listed as either ...
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]
Red Dragon Centre, Cardiff Bay. Style-conscious shops, bars and restaurants at Mermaid Quay. Cardiff Bay Retail Park; Mischief's Cafe Bar, a cafe bar and live music venue. The Coal Exchange, formally a music venue, now a hotel, bar and restaurant. [16] The Mount Stuart, a Wetherspoons Pub situated in an 1880s, former dock building. [17]
Tiger Bay was a local nickname for the general Cardiff Docks area, the evocative phrase deriving from the area's rough-and-tumble reputation. Merchant seamen arrived in Cardiff from all over the world, only staying for as long as it took to discharge and reload their ships: consequently many murders and lesser crimes went unsolved and ...
Stock Island is located at (24.570075, -81.737376 [4]U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses the key near mile markers 4–6, immediately east of Key West.. The northern side of stock island is home to the Key West Golf Course, Monroe County Detention Center, and the main campus of Florida Keys Community College.
Cudjoe Key is located in the Florida Keys at (24.664298, -81.482339 U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway ) crosses the key at about mile markers 20.5 – 23, between Summerland and Sugarloaf Keys . The highway leads west-southwest 20 miles (32 km) to Key West , east 30 miles (48 km) to Marathon , and a total of 136 miles (219 km) northeast to Miami .