From Rowson & Wright book:
"The extreme lower left of this view shows the Terminus Hotel on the corner of Mill Lane and St Mary Street, which had been a canal landmark since 1862. Shortly after it was built, the row of cottages opposite was demolished so that Mill Lane could be widened to reveal the canal below and to accommodate the horse tramway to Bute Street and Pierhead.
.. The subject of this photograph is the housing which lay on the south-east bank of the canal. For twenty years from the mid-1850s to the 1870s, this was the infamous 'red light' district of Cardiff - serving sailors, dock workers and canal boatmen alike."
Shipbuilding yard in Clarence Road of Bute Shipbuilding, Engineering and Dry Dock Company Ltd owned by Sir Thomas and Mr Philip Morel (from a watercolour dated 1884).
North and South Pub In Louisa Street, Poss Cecilia Morgan and a domestic help Margaret Thomas. Pic appears in Illustrated Guide to Cardiff pubs. Established 1892.
ss Sapphire in Commercial Dry Dock
Possibly Officioal No.94392 built of iron at Stockton and registered in London on 11/5/1888. Owned by John Robert Christie of Cardiff in MNLists of 1890 & 1900. Name changed to Dynas Powis in 1907.
Junction of South William Street and Stuart Street. View from outside entrance to dry dock. Pub on right The Little Windsor, further down the street The Frampton. Landlords of the two mentioned pubs, Gwen and Arthur in the Little Windsor, then a landlady called Maxine, in the Frampton was Phil Harris and before him was a Lavina.
