Demolition of 'A' shed, Queens dock.

Spent a large part of my working life in or around this shed....good times. Sad to see it go but it's well past it's 'sell by date'.

Picture taken by Nicholas Lemos.. 06/02/2018

'D' shed in the seventies, cars awaiting shipment to the USA.

....and as it is today.

         Spillers Mill at the Roath dock in the sixties.

                         Colin Robertson in the sixties.

Cars waiting for shipment to the USA.  Photo taken in the sixties, on the 'Square', the open berth between 'A' & 'G' sheds. The bike belonged to my brother Colin who donated this picture.

Cardiff becomes Thames for BBC production. 1997.

Dragon Boat Races at Cardiff East dock.

'African Trailer' 12/6/92. South Side QA dock.

Masterclass in fork driving by Sean Sullivan, assisted by Robert 'Bear' Mace & Steve 'Bronco' Lane.

Vamand Wave. Part 2

Vamand Wave (Part One) July 1991

'Britannia' Fairwell Tour. Cardiff . 1997

How not to wash a fork lift. June 1992

Yasaka Reefer. Cardiff Docks. 1992

Warwick Davis & me.

This has nothing to do with Cardiff docks, but this is me and 'my mate' Warwick Davis, he of Harry Potter fame, (he played Prof. Flitwick,) on a camping holiday in Bude.

Tall ships leaving the port.  1982



Canadian softwood being checked and located by John Bromwich.

1991

 Frozen fruit juice being landed on the
south side of the Queen's dock. April 1994

Submarine moored alongside the cold store.  1989

It's a lovely day so Jim Finney & Lee Ah-mun decide to have a cuddle.....no comment.  July 1989.

End of the Channel Dry Dock.

The Channel dry dock was situated at the west end of the Roath basin.

The  Channel lock gate.

This area of wasteland lies between the Roath basin and Cargo Rd,  (North side of the Queen's dock), and  is  now home to the new BBC Studio currently being built there.

This site is now the new BBC Studios.

This is the site of the old Medical Centre, the white building  is the Port Authority Allocation Centre & canteen, now demolished.

'B' shed bites the dust.

Situated on the north side of the Queen's dock, the old gives way to the new......

No sooner has 'B' shed been demolished, so the piles go in for the new warehouse.

Set for the BBC production of 'Our Mutual Friend'.

The set was built on the bay side of  Mountstuart Dry Dock, to represent waterside buildings on the river Thames. The production was in four parts for the BBC and starred Paul McGann, Timothy Spall, Anna Friel, Keeley Hawes and Pam Ferris,  Johnny Depp.......The blurb said, 'Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.'  (Just like the real dock!)