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In the News (Wed 30 May 12)

  
  BBC - De Ddwyrain - Hanes Butetown
Yr oedd Butetown yn anterth ei lewyrch ym mlynyddoedd cynnar yr ugeinfed ganrif.
Ond roedd ailddatblygu ddim yn gyfystyr a dod a bywyd newydd i Butetown.
Megis dechrau y mae atgyfodiad Butetown, ond, hyd yn hyn, y mae pethau'n argoeli'n dda.
www.bbc.co.uk /cymru/deddwyrain/safle/trebiwt/pages/hanes_butetown.shtml   (1014 words)

  
 Home Page
Butetown History and Arts Centre has been involved with Black History Month celebrations for the past couple of years.
Activities reflect the diverse population of the Butetown area where people of all ethnic origins and religions live together in harmony.
For many fl and Asian residents of Butetown born in Wales the origins of their family link with this once bustling coal port was the sea.
www.bhac.org /black_history.html   (326 words)

  
 EHJ Archive - March 2000
Butetown is home to the largest Somali community outside of Somalia, while Riverside and Grangetown both have high Asian populations.
As the table shows, Butetown, Grangetown, and Riverside are among the most socially deprived areas of Cardiff.
Riverside is already the subject of a housing renewal area, aiming to improve the quality of environmental and social conditions in the area.
www.ehj-online.com /archive/2000/march/march05.html   (2010 words)

  
 A new study of Tiger Bay's history of racial harmony | Society Guardian | SocietyGuardian.co.uk
As the coal metropolis of the world for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Welsh capital attracted a kaleidoscope of immigrants to work aboard ships and to build and service its docks.
In the 1950s, some 57 nationalities were counted among the 10,000 people living in Butetown, the mile-long stretch of dockland at the southern end of the city, commonly known as Tiger Bay.
Jordan, an African-American whose father was descended from a slave owner and whose mother was part-Cherokee, was drawn by Butetown's mixed ethnic heritage.
society.guardian.co.uk /societyguardian/story/0,7843,451160,00.html   (1125 words)

  
 Welcome
Butetown History and Arts Centre www.bhac.org for information on diversity in Tiger Bay and the Docks areas of Cardiff
In the mid-1800s Butetown was built : it was the intention of the Marquis of Bute that the area be occupied by people of different class backgrounds, from the rich and the powerful to unskilled labourers.
However, Butetown, Newtown, Lower Splott and some of the other dockland areas did not.
members.aol.com /enfield45/site/divers.htm   (1607 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | Butetown remembers World War Two
Personal accounts in Butetown Remembers focus on those from the city's most ethnically-diverse area who joined up, were evacuated or stayed behind.
It highlights the wartime contribution of ethnic minority groups, which organisers said was often forgotten.
Butetown Remembers World War Two: Seamen, Airmen and Evacuees is open daily at the Butetown History and Arts Centre in Bute Street, Cardiff, until 3 July.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/4476215.stm   (656 words)

  
 Cardiff - Home, Cardiff Council helps save Butetown History and Arts Centre
The Butetown History and Arts Centre is a valuable resource and archive of information about the heritage of South Wales and Cardiff.
This will enable Butetown History and Arts Centre to successfully apply for appropriate funding and to develop their future plans.
Speaking on behalf of Butetown History and Arts Centre, the Director, Glenn Jordan said "We are indebted to the Council for their ready response to our difficulties.
www.cardiff.gov.uk /leisure/content.asp?nav=2874,4203&parent_directory_id=2865&id=3269&Language=   (275 words)

  
 Butetown History & Arts Centre, Cardiff - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and ...
Butetown History & Arts Centre, Cardiff - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Informal family snaps, proud photos of home and jobs, formal studio portraits and images of celebrated personalities, before fame claimed them, have all been donated to the Centre.
BHAC is creating a Bay People's Archive by collecting and cataloguing: Old photographs; audio taped oral recollections from Butetown's older residents and former residents, including 150 life histories; video taped life history recollections; a collection of old documents and artefacts, e.g.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum_gfx_en/AM26610.html   (250 words)

  
 index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This is a chance for people living in and around Butetown to share their stories and create digital stories with the Capture Wales team.
The Capture Wales project is based on the idea that everyone has a story to tell and digital storytelling allows people to tell their stories using laptops, and the tools of multi-media production.
BBC Wales is looking for applications from men and women of all ages (over 18) and from all walks of life from the Butetown area of Cardiff.
www.a-t-w.com /news/e_newsarchive_story.asp?newsID=344   (357 words)

  
 Jane Hutt congratulates health flagship for new millennium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A successful bid for a Health Living Centre in Grangetown and Butetown, Cardiff, was hailed as a community-run flagship for health in the new millennium by Health Minister Jane Hutt today.
Visiting Butetown community centre to meet those who were behind the bid Jane Hutt said: "The recent announcement of over £1m for a Healthy Living Centre for Butetown and Grangetown represents the culmination of a great deal of hard work and effort by local people.
It is the members of local communities that can help make a real difference in making communities a better place to live and in ensuring that local services and support are relevant to the cultural needs of the community.
www.wales.nhs.uk /pressnotices/flagship-e.htm   (288 words)

  
 THE BE4 Project - BME projects in Wales
Butetown and Grangetown are two of the most deprived council wards in Cardiff with residents experiencing some of the poorest health as a consequence of the combination of poor socio-economic circumstances, unhealthy lifestyles and low uptake of health services (for example, breast screening).
The aim of the project is to significantly improve the health of socially disadvantaged and excluded social and ethnic groups in Butetown and Grangetown.
They will also be developing activities with their communities in Butetown, Grangetown and south Cardiff.
www.be4researchproject.org.uk /bme.htm   (1837 words)

  
 icWales - What's your life expectancy?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Office of National Statistics' report shows that Cardiff's Butetown residents die at an average age of just under 72 - the fourth youngest in the country.
Harry Perks, a 68-year-old retired postman who lives in Butetown, said: 'This area used to be marvellous, but it's really gone downhill.
Sian Biddyr, project manager at the Butetown and Grangetown Healthy Living Programme, said he believed the deprivation in the region was the key.
icwales.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/health/tm_objectid=17319312&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=what-s-your-life-expectancy--name_page.html   (579 words)

  
 John Williams, an interview
John Williams: I hope not, but I can't exactly be the judge of that.
John Williams: Well, fact of the matter is Butetown today is a hard place to glamorise.
If I wrote about it in the past there would be a temptation to glamorise I suspect.
homepage.ntlworld.com /elizabeth.ercocklly/johnw.htm   (1497 words)

  
 The Battle for Independent Tropical Wales - A Panorama: Toni Carless   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The ‘redevelopment’ planning is controlled and managed by The Cardiff Bay Development Corporation (CBDC), who have undertaken a series of planning strategies, for a carefully delineated space of the docklands.
The main area under consideration for the panorama view, takes into account Butetown (also known as ‘Tiger Bay’), which is an area under Local Authority control, fronting onto and adjoining the edge of the CBDC’s space.
The panoramic view to be constructed will show this frontage to Butetown and the ideological front of Bute Street, which is the line of the CBDC’s boundary.
www.land2.uwe.ac.uk /cusp/tonia.htm   (539 words)

  
 Directory
Butetown History and Arts Centre, Bute St, 029 20 256 757.
Its aim is to improve the quality of life of all residents, focussing on community development, developing skills and area regeneration.
Target areas are Riverside, Grangetown and Butetown and areas to the west of Cardiff.
www.btinternet.com /~duffnort/Grange2.html   (5384 words)

  
 Butetown Branch Labour Party
Butetown Branch of the Labour Party is a part of Cardiff South and Penarth Constituency Labour Party.
Lib Dems need to clean-up their act says AM
The views expressed on these web pages are those of Butetown Branch Labour Party and do not necessarily represent the views of Welsh Labour Party.
butetownlabour.blogspot.com   (159 words)

  
 UWIC News Releases
Butetown past and present captured in students’ photo exhibition
Butetown Through Our Eyes, an exhibition by final year Graphic Communication students from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC), runs until March 5, at the Butetown History and Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay.
The exhibition is open from 10am until 5pm on Tuesdays to Fridays, and from 11am until 4.30pm on weekends.
www.uwic.ac.uk /new/uwicnews/details.asp?rec=578   (240 words)

  
 Butetown History & Arts Centre
Butetown History and Arts Centre is an independent local charity based at the hub of these achievements.
BHAC is able to offer a range of support and services which will make a success of any field visit or research study.
They include family snapshots from the many ethnic groups within the cosmopolitan community; aerial views of the dock system and pictures of the original Victorian streets of Butetown and Tiger Bay docklands.
www.bhac.org /edu.html   (350 words)

  
 Butetown Community Centre
Originally located in Bute Street, it was called the "George Cross" and was seen to be the vibrant heart of what was then "Tiger Bay".
Many community members of Butetown have attained outstanding achievements in many different areas.
Their roots lay in Butetown and this is something of which they are proud.
www.switch-cymru.org.uk /html/bcc/page1.htm   (304 words)

  
 discussion
Soon the Cardiff Docks area, or Butetown as it is now known, became home to many different ethnic groups - coming from the 19th Century British Empire countries and involved in providing labour for the ships spreading the businesses of Cardiff Docks to the world.
Today there are still strong traces of the many different ethnic groups which made up Butetown and the area is still a rich source of the history of these people - from the early Irish Labourers who shaped the Docks to the Somali and Yemeni groups who now form the backbone of the community.
If you think you might be interested in studying more about this subject, find out what the Open University has to offer.
www.open2.net /openminds/GRAPHIC/wk10/detail/cityshort2.htm   (188 words)

  
 CASBAH: Butetown History and Arts Centre: Sound Archive
Administrative/Biographical history: Butetown History and Arts Centre was established in 1987 as a centre for the collection and preservation of resources documenting the social history of the communities in Cardiff's docklands (also referred to as 'Tiger Bay' and 'The Docks').
Glenn Jordan (Director, Butetown History and Arts Centre) recorded all the life-history interviews with residents that are listed in the sound archive, many of which were recorded when the Centre operated as the Butetown History and Arts Project between 1979-1987.
Scope and content: The sound archive at the Butetown History and Arts Centre contains audiotaped life-history interviews and oral recollections from Butetown's older residents and former residents, primarily recorded during the decade 1979-1989.
www.casbah.ac.uk /cats/archive/182/BHACA0003.htm   (432 words)

  
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The first game was against Butetown Colts and the lads impressed in well controlled first half which saw superb defence combine with real flair in attack and a 3-0 half time score line was really no surprise.
To give credit to Butetown they really rolled their sleeves up for the second half and competed for every ball.
The lads continued to play well but sound Butetown resistance meant that no further goals went in.
members.lycos.co.uk /marlboroeagles/022mar   (286 words)

  
 index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mae project Cipolwg ar Gymru wedi’i seilio ar y syniad fod gan bawb stori i’w hadrodd ac mae adrodd straeon digidol yn rhoi rhwydd hynt i bobol adrodd eu straeon gan ddefnyddio gliniaduron, a chelfi cynhyrchu amlgyfryngol.
Bydd y sesiynau i gyd yn digwydd ym Mhafiliwn Ieuenctid Butetown, Heol Dumballs, Caerdydd.
Cynhelir y gweithdy yma yn yr iaith Saesneg ac maen agored i unrhyw un sy’n byw yn Butetown a’r cyffiniau.
www.a-t-w.com /news/w_newsarchive_story.asp?newsID=344   (427 words)

  
 Wales on the Web: Online Communities
Butetown Community Centre is located at Loudoun Square, and is an important centre for the community in Butetown and the former Tiger Bay.
The website provides information about the centre and it's history, with details of events and activities, information about the people involved with the centre, and their latest news.
In Cardiff, the Scarman Trust encourage individuals or small groups to develop local solutions to local problems in areas such as Butetown and Adamsdown through the use of small grants, practical support and alliance building.
www.walesontheweb.org /cayw/index/en/307/0987   (1078 words)

  
 See | Cardiff Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
Llandaff Cathedral dates from 1130, though it was largely rebuilt in the 19th century, and again after being damaged by a German landmine in 1941.
The Butetown History and Arts Centre is a gallery and archive centre devoted to preserving oral...
Long cut off from the outside world, Cardiff Castle is more a collection of castles built around...
www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/europe/wales/cardiff/see   (147 words)

  
 BBC - South East Wales Butetown and the Bay - a guide to Cardiff's historic docklands
Take a closer look at Cardiff's historic docklands which have been transformed in recent years - and share your views.
Take a closer look at Butetown and the Bay through some useful web links.
A closer look at one of the area's longest settled communities.
www.bbc.net.uk /wales/southeast/sites/butetown   (353 words)

  
 Real Cardiff - Bute Street
The chicanes, narrows and parking bays of urban traffic calming have made their appearance throughout its length.
The render on the Queen Street - Butetown rail link embankment retaining wall has been chipped back to reveal clean Victorian stone.
The Loudon Square, upper Butetown population has a high proportion of Somali and Afro-Caribbean with a smattering of Bengali.
www.peterfinch.co.uk /bute.htm   (880 words)

  
 Butetown Police Station
The man who piloted through the anti-hunt legislation chickened out of an engagement to mark the
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Fares, waterfront and butetown area, quality new and used...
www.policeduty.com /44/butetown-police-station.html   (293 words)

  
 Official website of South Wales Police- Heddlu De Cymru
The drugs, believed to be crack cocaine, have an estimated street value of up to £20,000.
Officers from Cardiff Bay police station arrested two men, a 20-year-old and 42-year-old, both from the Butetown area, last Thursday (6th November).
Both men have been charged concerning the supply of controlled drugs and appeared before Cardiff Magistrates Court on Saturday (8th November).
www.south-wales.police.uk /fe_news/news_details.asp?newsid=56   (113 words)

  
 Butetown Youth Pavillion
The Butetown Youth Pavillion is situated in the Cardiff Bay area and is used, mainly, by young people from Butetown and Grangetown.
The centre is housed in a former warehouse (conversion funded by Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, completed 1995) and is now run by Cardiff City Council.
The second, large, room is used by the Princes' Trust Volunteers for meetings and also for study support.
www.switch-cymru.org.uk /html/BYP/page1.htm   (105 words)

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