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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 ...
Most of the Florida Keys fall into USDA zone 11a to 11b; Key West is zone 12a. There are two main "seasons" in the Florida Keys, a hot and wet season from June through October, and a dry season from November through April, that features little rainfall, sunny skies, and warm breezy conditions.
Mermaid Quay (Welsh: Cei'r Fôr-forwyn) is a waterfront shopping and leisure district in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales. The 14,000 m 2 (150,000 sq ft) development was opened in 1999, and includes restaurants, bars, cafes and shops.
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 ...
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 ...
The complex features restaurants, cafés, a Hollywood Bowl bowling alley with arcade amusements, an Odeon multiplex cinema, a casino, gym and an on-site car park. It is located in the Cardiff Bay area, opposite the Wales Millennium Centre. This is close to the A4232 and near Cardiff Bay railway station.