Grange history

PART FIVE: Here we're building up an index of streets, and will hopefully add some references about their history and any landmarks, and where to find them on the censuses, where applicable etc, for those looking for family or to research the history of their house. NB: Where street names have changed we have cross-referenced with modern and old names.

We're developing an index of streets, hopefully with reference and census page numbers for those interested in family history.

STREET NAME and approx date POINTS OF INTEREST CENSUS DETAILS (pre-1901) CENSUS DETAILS 1911

Aber Street Houses date from 1922

Abercynon Street 1926-1931

Allerton Street 1887-1894 The Neville pub (dates from 1888) Cardiff West, district 21, p400

Amherst Street First houses 1876 1901 - Canton, district 29

Avoca Place 1896 Including Mission Room. Old St Barnabas' church. Cardiff West 23: p556-573

Avondale Crescent 1933-39

Avondale Road 1934-38

Bedwas Street Cardiff West district no 23, p138-151, no 25: p298

Bishop Street Cardiff West 23: p516-555

Blaenclydach Street 1895-1902 Cardiff West 26: p698-799

Bradford Street 1878-81 1901 - Canton, district 28

Bromfield Street 1876-78

Bromsgrove Street 1875-1882

Cambridge Street 1876-1894, and 1938, and 1948-49 The clinic building dates from 1938. 1901 - Canton, district 29

Channel View 1939

Chester Place 1893-94 Cardiff West 25: p608-651

Chester Street 1891-93 Cardiff West 22: p770-845

Clare Road 1887-1898 Synagogue dated from 1898; new congregational chapel from 1900. Cardiff West 25: p2-165, 448-565, 736-763

Clive Street c1876-1893 Grange Farm (parts of building date from medieval times) 1851 - Llandaff, district 5a, p47; 1901 - Canton, district 27, p33 Cardiff West 28: p1-369 (evens and odds to No 61), p498, p918-925; 29: p1-157, 162-230 (Plymouth Hotel p230)

Clydach Street 1896 YMCA building dates from 1909. Cardiff West 27: p2-33

Coedcae Street 1895 Cardiff West 26: p348-469

Compton Street 1891-1896 Cardiff West 22: p428-537 (Nos 1-36)

Coombs Terrace c1870-80s, no longer there If you look at a map from the early to mid 1880s you can see a small terrace of homes, roughly where Avoca Place/Wedmore Rd stands today, standing on its own before the rest of the Saltmead area was built. The five homes were built by brickmaker Charles Coombs, four of which housed members of his family, and the terrace was given their name. Bristol-born Coombs had worked at a brickmaker in Newport before moving to Cardiff with his eight children. With two brickworks close by and the huge amount of building work, there was obviously a lot of demand in Cardiff. In 1881, Charles, 62, lived at No1 with wife Ann and son John, a fellow brickmaker, 34, and wife Annie, 37, and their daughter. Next door at No2, lived younger son Thomas, another brickmaker; Two other son Edward, 19, also in the trade and brother James, 16, lived at No3. Eldest son Charles, 38, lived with his wife and children in No 5. The terrace disappears off the map and by the 1890s, the families are living in Penarth Road and Eldon Rd (Ninian Park Road). 1881 census, Leckwith district 30, pages 42-44

Cornwall Street 1887-1893 Cornwall Hotel from 1894 Cardiff West 22: p168-273, p942; 23: p101-136; 21: p700

Corporation Road 1894-96, 1923-28 and 1931 Cardiff West district 24: p7-77 (Nos 1,2-32 evens); 26: p164-233 (nos25-71 odd); 47: p488-779 (nos 34-232 even), p780-803 (Nos 73-87 odd)

Court Road 1887-1894 Cardiff West 22: 274-362, Court Rd School at p362; 21: p800

Cymmer Street 1896 Cardifff West 26: p280-347

Devon Place 1893

Devon Street 1887-1892

Dinas Street 1908-1915 St Samson's church dates from 1920. Cardiff West 25: p338-369 (Dinas Place, p300-303)

Dorset Street 1887-1894 Cardiff/West: 22 p120-157/ 23 p78-100; district 25: p654-733

Durham Street 1892-93 Cardiff West 25: p380-447

Earl Street 1882-84 1901 - Canton, district 29

Ferndale Street 1895-96 Cardiff West 26: p470-617

Ferry Road 1884 and 1945 Grangetown Gas Works (1911 Census at Cardiff West 24: p808)
Francis Street/Terrace 1860s renamed Franklen Street Grange Inn 1861 - Llandaff, Cardiff (district 20, p1) Cardiff West 25: p398-411

Grange Gardens 1901 St Patrick's RC church dates from 1930 Cardiff West 27: p380-382; p383-421

Hafod Street 1913-1915
Havelock Street/Place Cardiff West 24: p2-6; The Cottage at 25: p734

Hereford Street 1887-1896 Cardiff West 22: p364-419 (nos 2-44),23: p2-77 (Nos 1-71)

Hewell Street 1901 - Canton, district 27, p41

Holmesdale Street 1877-1897 Holmesdale Street to many is the heart of Grangetown, stretching from Grange Gardens to Ferry Road, with a network of terraces off it, with shops and local schools. Back in 1881 ,the census in that year shows a Londoner, Edward Smith ran the Plymouth Hotel at one end of the road with his wife and five children living there, with three servants and a nurse employed. Living nearby were migrant workers from Somerset, Gloucester and other parts - builders, two blacksmiths next door to each other - one who had a game-keeper as the lodger, one Robert Iles, 50. An iron moudler father and son, Thomas Gillard, one of two nearby grocers (and another native of Somerset) - his neighbours, Fred Denham a railway clerk and cab driver Alfred Gough were also from the west country. There were also two green grocers, including Eleanor Wilkie, 60, a widow and mother of two, whose teenage son John was a seaman. At No 48, there was another grocer, Owen Jones, 70, a native of Aberaeron, while at No 78, is the appropriately named William Hook, the butcher, 54, and yet another from Somerset. George Blake ran the Lord Windsor pub at No 47 - which shut a few years ago and is currently facing demolition. There are plenty of dock labourers and coal trimmers (loading coal onto ships) of course. Showing the distances people had travelled, is mariner David King, a native of Sydney, Australia, who had moved from Cornwall with his wife and son, while having a young daughter after their move to Cardiff. 1881 Census under District 28b, Llandaff. Cardiff West 27: p466-487 (Nos 126-148)

Jubilee Street (see Stoughton Street)

Kent Street 1875-1886

Knole Street c1870s 1901 - Canton, district 28

Llanbradach Street Cardiff West 26: p234-279, 27: p804-845

Llanmaes Street 1889-1898 Cardiff West 27: p422-437

Lucknow Street By 1861, 1870s-1880s London Style Inn, at No 1 (c1875-1950s) 1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p19-20; 1881 Census - Leckwith District 30, p39-44

Ludlow Street 1876-77 1901 - Canton, district 29 Cardiff West 25: p310-341

Machen Street Cardiff West 25: p244-259

Madras Street (demolished) Cardiff West 25: p342-397

Mardy Street1902-1916 The old dance hall, now part of the Hindu temple, dates from 1922. Cardiff West 25: p166-211
Maitland Place Cardiff West 23: p272-305

Merches Gardens 1915-18. The name Merches derives from a large piece of land on the West Moors, just west of the Dumballs

Merches Place 1913-18 The Hebrew Hall dates from 1914

Monmouth Street 1887-1896

Moordale Road 1934-38

Newport Street 1901 - Canton, district 28

North Street Pub at No 8 and police constables living at No 10 by 1861 1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20 p4-5

North Clive Street 1882-1896 Cardiff West 23: p573-p673; 24: p154-217 (odds), p218-243 (evens)

Oakley Place

Oakley Street 1870s 1901 - Canton, district 27

Paget Street 1894-97 Cardiff West 28: p370-p497

Penarth Road c1877-1897 1881: Leckwith 27-30, p33; 1891: Canton 47a, p40 (Francis Terrace, inc Grange Hotel), Baroness Windsor (p45) 49-57 (Jubilee Terrace) Cardiff West: 25: p764-869, 26: p2-163 (Nos 75-187)

Pendyris Street Tram depot (now council vehicle depot), the Avana bakery, 1902-2005; laundry now demolished

Penhevad Street 1894-98 Cardiff West 27: p176-323; 28: p702-835

Pentre Street 1906-1909 Cardiff West 25: p212-299; p304-373

Pentrebane Street 1891: Canton 47a, 81-87 Cardiff West 27: p324-379; p383-421; 28: p836-905, p916

Redlaver Street 1887-1892 1891: Canton 47a, 57- Cardiff West 24: p78-153 (Nos 1-51 odd); 27: p52-81; 28: p500-542, p700-701

Rookwood Street Cardiff West 23: p380-515
Rosemary Street 1860s 1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p15-19

Rudry Street Cardiff West 25: p278-297

Rutland Street 1887-90 Cardiff West 22: p666-768

St Fagans Street 1901 - Canton, district 28

Saltmead Road (later Stafford Road) 1888-1894 Cardiff West 22, p2-119; district 25 p566-607

Sevenoaks Street 1901 - Canton, district 28

Somerset Street 1894-96 Cardiff West 22: p538-665, p944

South Clive Street

Stafford Road (see Saltmead Road)

Stockland Street 1892-1895
Named after Stockland Farm, part of the Plymouth lands at St Fagan's Cardiff West 27: p82-175; 28: p543-697; steam laundry p698

Stoughton Street (later Jubilee St and Sussex Street) 1888-1891

Sussex Street (see Stoughton Street)

Taff Embankment 1897-99, also 1923-1932 Cardiff West 26: p618-697; 27: p34-52 (Nos 62-76)

Thomas Street Houses from 1860s, also 1876-1878, replaced in 1970s 1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p6-15

Van Street 1891 - Canton District 47a, p28 Cardiff West 24: p260-277

Virgil Street 1939
Cardiff West 23: p306-327

Warwick Street 1888-92 Cardiff West 22: p846-941 (Warwick Place 25: p652-653)

Wedmore Road 1894-97 Cardiff West district no 23, p152-271

Worcester Street 1901 - Canton, district 27, p41 Cardiff West 29: p158-161

York Place Cardiff West 28: p906-915

1851: The census has farmers, labourers and freeholders in the Leckwith district and Grange Farm listed in the Llandaff district (5a).

STREET NAME and approx date	POINTS OF INTEREST	CENSUS DETAILS (pre-1901)	CENSUS DETAILS 1911
Aber Street Houses date from 1922
Abercynon Street 1926-1931
Allerton Street 1887-1894	The Neville pub (dates from 1888)		Cardiff West, district 21, p400
Amherst Street First houses 1876		1901 - Canton, district 29
Avoca Place 1896	Including Mission Room. Old St Barnabas' church.		Cardiff West 23: p556-573
Avondale Crescent 1933-39
Avondale Road 1934-38
Bedwas Street			Cardiff West district no 23, p138-151, no 25: p298
Bishop Street			Cardiff West 23: p516-555
Blaenclydach Street 1895-1902			Cardiff West 26: p698-799
Bradford Street 1878-81		1901 - Canton, district 28
Bromfield Street 1876-78
Bromsgrove Street 1875-1882
Cambridge Street 1876-1894, and 1938, and 1948-49	The clinic building dates from 1938.	1901 - Canton, district 29
Channel View 1939
Chester Place 1893-94			Cardiff West 25: p608-651
Chester Street 1891-93			Cardiff West 22: p770-845
Clare Road 1887-1898	Synagogue dated from 1898; new congregational chapel from 1900.		Cardiff West 25: p2-165, 448-565, 736-763
Clive Street c1876-1893	Grange Farm (parts of building date from medieval times)	1851 - Llandaff, district 5a, p47; 1901 - Canton, district 27, p33	Cardiff West 28: p1-369 (evens and odds to No 61), p498, p918-925; 29: p1-157, 162-230 (Plymouth Hotel p230)
Clydach Street 1896	YMCA building dates from 1909.		Cardiff West 27: p2-33
Coedcae Street 1895			Cardiff West 26: p348-469
Compton Street 1891-1896			Cardiff West 22: p428-537 (Nos 1-36)
Coombs Terrace c1870-80s, no longer there	If you look at a map from the early to mid 1880s you can see a small terrace of homes, roughly where Avoca Place/Wedmore Rd stands today, standing on its own before the rest of the Saltmead area was built. The five homes were built by brickmaker Charles Coombs, four of which housed members of his family, and the terrace was given their name. Bristol-born Coombs had worked at a brickmaker in Newport before moving to Cardiff with his eight children. With two brickworks close by and the huge amount of building work, there was obviously a lot of demand in Cardiff. In 1881, Charles, 62, lived at No1 with wife Ann and son John, a fellow brickmaker, 34, and wife Annie, 37, and their daughter. Next door at No2, lived younger son Thomas, another brickmaker; Two other son Edward, 19, also in the trade and brother James, 16, lived at No3. Eldest son Charles, 38, lived with his wife and children in No 5. The terrace disappears off the map and by the 1890s, the families are living in Penarth Road and Eldon Rd (Ninian Park Road).	1881 census, Leckwith district 30, pages 42-44
Cornwall Street 1887-1893	Cornwall Hotel from 1894		Cardiff West 22: p168-273, p942; 23: p101-136; 21: p700
Corporation Road 1894-96, 1923-28 and 1931			Cardiff West district 24: p7-77 (Nos 1,2-32 evens); 26: p164-233 (nos25-71 odd); 47: p488-779 (nos 34-232 even), p780-803 (Nos 73-87 odd)
Court Road 1887-1894			Cardiff West 22: 274-362, Court Rd School at p362; 21: p800
Cymmer Street 1896			Cardifff West 26: p280-347
Devon Place 1893
Devon Street 1887-1892
Dinas Street 1908-1915	St Samson's church dates from 1920.		Cardiff West 25: p338-369 (Dinas Place, p300-303)
Dorset Street 1887-1894			Cardiff/West: 22 p120-157/ 23 p78-100; district 25: p654-733
Durham Street 1892-93			Cardiff West 25: p380-447
Earl Street 1882-84		1901 - Canton, district 29
Ferndale Street 1895-96			Cardiff West 26: p470-617
Ferry Road 1884 and 1945	Grangetown Gas Works (1911 Census at Cardiff West 24: p808)
Francis Street/Terrace 1860s renamed Franklen Street	Grange Inn	1861 - Llandaff, Cardiff (district 20, p1)	Cardiff West 25: p398-411
Grange Gardens 1901	St Patrick's RC church dates from 1930		Cardiff West 27: p380-382; p383-421
Hafod Street 1913-1915
Havelock Street/Place			Cardiff West 24: p2-6; The Cottage at 25: p734
Hereford Street 1887-1896			Cardiff West 22: p364-419 (nos 2-44),23: p2-77 (Nos 1-71)
Hewell Street		1901 - Canton, district 27, p41
Holmesdale Street 1877-1897	Holmesdale Street to many is the heart of Grangetown, stretching from Grange Gardens to Ferry Road, with a network of terraces off it, with shops and local schools. Back in 1881 ,the census in that year shows a Londoner, Edward Smith ran the Plymouth Hotel at one end of the road with his wife and five children living there, with three servants and a nurse employed. Living nearby were migrant workers from Somerset, Gloucester and other parts - builders, two blacksmiths next door to each other - one who had a game-keeper as the lodger, one Robert Iles, 50. An iron moudler father and son, Thomas Gillard, one of two nearby grocers (and another native of Somerset) - his neighbours, Fred Denham a railway clerk and cab driver Alfred Gough were also from the west country. There were also two green grocers, including Eleanor Wilkie, 60, a widow and mother of two, whose teenage son John was a seaman. At No 48, there was another grocer, Owen Jones, 70, a native of Aberaeron, while at No 78, is the appropriately named William Hook, the butcher, 54, and yet another from Somerset. George Blake ran the Lord Windsor pub at No 47 - which shut a few years ago and is currently facing demolition. There are plenty of dock labourers and coal trimmers (loading coal onto ships) of course. Showing the distances people had travelled, is mariner David King, a native of Sydney, Australia, who had moved from Cornwall with his wife and son, while having a young daughter after their move to Cardiff.	1881 Census under District 28b, Llandaff.	Cardiff West 27: p466-487 (Nos 126-148)
Jubilee Street (see Stoughton Street)
Kent Street 1875-1886
Knole Street c1870s		1901 - Canton, district 28
Llanbradach Street			Cardiff West 26: p234-279, 27: p804-845
Llanmaes Street 1889-1898			Cardiff West 27: p422-437
Lucknow Street By 1861, 1870s-1880s	London Style Inn, at No 1 (c1875-1950s)	1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p19-20; 1881 Census - Leckwith District 30, p39-44
Ludlow Street 1876-77		1901 - Canton, district 29	Cardiff West 25: p310-341
Machen Street			Cardiff West 25: p244-259
Madras Street (demolished)			Cardiff West 25: p342-397
Mardy Street1902-1916	The old dance hall, now part of the Hindu temple, dates from 1922.		Cardiff West 25: p166-211
Maitland Place			Cardiff West 23: p272-305
Merches Gardens 1915-18. The name Merches derives from a large piece of land on the West Moors, just west of the Dumballs
Merches Place 1913-18	The Hebrew Hall dates from 1914
Monmouth Street 1887-1896
Moordale Road 1934-38
Newport Street		1901 - Canton, district 28
North Street	Pub at No 8 and police constables living at No 10 by 1861	1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20 p4-5
North Clive Street 1882-1896			Cardiff West 23: p573-p673; 24: p154-217 (odds), p218-243 (evens)
Oakley Place
Oakley Street 1870s		1901 - Canton, district 27
Paget Street 1894-97			Cardiff West 28: p370-p497
Penarth Road c1877-1897		1881: Leckwith 27-30, p33; 1891: Canton 47a, p40 (Francis Terrace, inc Grange Hotel), Baroness Windsor (p45) 49-57 (Jubilee Terrace)	Cardiff West: 25: p764-869, 26: p2-163 (Nos 75-187)
Pendyris Street	Tram depot (now council vehicle depot), the Avana bakery, 1902-2005; laundry now demolished
Penhevad Street 1894-98			Cardiff West 27: p176-323; 28: p702-835
Pentre Street 1906-1909			Cardiff West 25: p212-299; p304-373
Pentrebane Street		1891: Canton 47a, 81-87	Cardiff West 27: p324-379; p383-421; 28: p836-905, p916
Redlaver Street 1887-1892		1891: Canton 47a, 57-	Cardiff West 24: p78-153 (Nos 1-51 odd); 27: p52-81; 28: p500-542, p700-701
Rookwood Street			Cardiff West 23: p380-515
Rosemary Street 1860s		1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p15-19
Rudry Street			Cardiff West 25: p278-297
Rutland Street 1887-90			Cardiff West 22: p666-768
St Fagans Street		1901 - Canton, district 28
Saltmead Road (later Stafford Road) 1888-1894			Cardiff West 22, p2-119; district 25 p566-607
Sevenoaks Street		1901 - Canton, district 28
Somerset Street 1894-96			Cardiff West 22: p538-665, p944
South Clive Street
Stafford Road (see Saltmead Road)
Stockland Street 1892-1895 Named after Stockland Farm, part of the Plymouth lands at St Fagan's			Cardiff West 27: p82-175; 28: p543-697; steam laundry p698
Stoughton Street (later Jubilee St and Sussex Street) 1888-1891
Sussex Street (see Stoughton Street)
Taff Embankment 1897-99, also 1923-1932			Cardiff West 26: p618-697; 27: p34-52 (Nos 62-76)
Thomas Street Houses from 1860s, also 1876-1878, replaced in 1970s		1861: Llandaff, Cardiff, district 20, p6-15
Van Street		1891 - Canton District 47a, p28	Cardiff West 24: p260-277
Virgil Street 1939			Cardiff West 23: p306-327
Warwick Street 1888-92			Cardiff West 22: p846-941 (Warwick Place 25: p652-653)
Wedmore Road 1894-97			Cardiff West district no 23, p152-271
Worcester Street		1901 - Canton, district 27, p41	Cardiff West 29: p158-161
York Place			Cardiff West 28: p906-915