CARDIFFREMEMBERED One for the transport buffs – and those who look at the background

PETER WALLER’S Lost Tramways Of Wales: Cardiff is one of four volumes exploring the tramway history of Wales.

Although the trams themselves will be of great interest to some I have to admit that I found the locations where the pictures of the trams were taken – such as Newport Road, Cardiff city centre, Crwys Road, St Mary Street and City Road – more interesting than the actual trams themselves. Well, I would, wouldn’t I!

In fact, I was transported back in time to the Cardiff of the late ’40s.

What particularly struck me gazing at these fascinating pictures was the number of cyclists that were on the streets of our beloved Cardiff back then.

Each volume in the Lost Tramways series provides an overview of the system, from its origins through to the final closure.

The pictures offer the reader a portrait, through the photographs, and the routes they served.

I’m old enough to remember travelling on the trams which first came to Cardiff in 1902 and, if my memory serves me right, seeing the last of them going down City Road in 1950.

As a pupil of St Peters RC Secondary Modern School we used to go to Gladstone School every Wednesday woodwork class for and the teachers would give us a copper (a penny) to catch a tram back home.

Of course, we would walk home and save the penny.

There were times too when