2,194 days writing about my local castle on castellcoch.com
Is it a "real" castle? Is it just a folly?
That's for you to decide, I just collect and write about interesting stuff.
Jack Davies
@tongwynlais.bsky.social
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Art, local history, photography and adventures around Tongwynlais and Castell Coch in Cardiff, Wales. Running the #CardiffTrails tongwynlais.app
![Collage of three sepia photographs from the Cardiff Docklands Collection.
The first shows a formal portrait of a couple [a White woman sitting, Black man standing] and a small Multiethnic boy. The second shows a young Black woman dressed smartly sitting posed in an artist’s studio - “From May to Etta with Love” is written in the top left of the photo. The third photo shows a White woman [in smart Edwardian clothing] standing alongside a very small Black boy standing on a chair, dressed in a smart velvet suit with white frilled collar and white knee-high socks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7cswerpm6grj7sb2af5nbh5j/bafkreibn5l5touyk5cqwqezo7gtlqp5mszohb5kiip64ggpywmmosucdfu)
![Image shows a Christmas card design by Ysgol Rdhydfelen pupil, Sion [form 3] in 1973. Design is a stylized angel in flowing gown, with halo and wings and holding a guitar.
Two of the same design are shown side by side; on the left the white-outlined angel is on a lilac background, on the right, the angel is on a black background.
Beneath the angel is the following text: Crist Cyd Ddyn Cymru.
From the Ysgol Rhydfelen Scrapbook Collection held at Glamorgan Archives.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7cswerpm6grj7sb2af5nbh5j/bafkreihwmtuxvlsfjxq3mpmbq6afpm73vfuqv6hwycc5rkcicnd53z3xbe)