A Stroll Through Tiger Bay - Part 1 of 4
Author of the Tiger Bay Story and The Cardiff Bay Experience, Neil Sinclair brings to the screen his very popular seafront history walk. Now in the pleasure of your easy chair you can venture down the old Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian streets of Tiger Bay and The Docks as they were.
Hear also interesting anecdotes of the larger than life characters who once walked those no longer existent streets and see how Cardiff, a mere village with less than 2,000 dwellers, grew into the city we recognise today.
Neil, who also does lectures, presentations, exhibitions and bus tours for the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, is a well known personality in the Bay where he still lives. In collaboration with Director Fran Boyer of Moaning Minnie Productions and underscored with original music composed by local musician and artist John Lenney, Neil has produced a most exciting and interesting video.
Contrasting wonderful views of Cardiff's newly transformed seafront with historical film footage and archive photographs, this video revives the historic beginnings of Cardiff's turn of the century rise from obscurity, inspired by the foresight and auspices of the Second Marquis of Bute, to become the world's most famous seaport.
DISCLAIMER:
Due to the extreme rarity of this VHS video, I wanted to upload it for posterity and the educational benefits it will bring to the younger citizens of our great city. I also wanted to ensure that Neil Sinclair's work is preserved. There is no financial gain made from this upload.
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Thankyou for information about Tiger Bay. My mother was born in South Wales coal mining area 1913. Very poor coal miner family, virtually starving , living on nothing. Very sad stories she told me. But she taught her children about motherly love, and from love we have our strength.
It shows that we have long been living together in peace. When we are taught the same and given the same chances. Tiger Bay was an example of what human unity should be.
R.I.P. Neil. Great guy
Amazing guide, fascinating story!❤️
Watching Neil Sinclair, I wish I'd taken advantage of one of his guided tours when he was alive. In his many television appearances, he was always engaging, knowledgeable and clear in his understanding of the area. Sadly missed but, thanks to these videos, he is preserved for posterity.
Started my apprenticeship in the docks and remember mud hopping to the boats to go sailing before the barrage was built. Liked the guy doing the tour. As the saying goes. You can take the boy out of Cardiff but you can't take Cardiff out of the boy 🤣🤣🤣
Very knowledgeable guide 👍
Neil Sinclair was actually in the film Tiger Bay.Docks boy all his life
It was always “The Docks” to Cardiffians.
Even before WW2, Tiger Bay was very multi-ethnic.
Should be called tiger bay still
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This must be 1994 when the Merchant Seafarers’ War Memorial was unveiled?
maxim Edwards. .there are a couple of theories on how tiger bay got its name but the one that rings true is there used to be a constable who's patrol was tigers bay and he was affectionately known as tiger hence the name
Hello Andrew. What IS the reason it was known as Tiger Bay
I'm sorry, I am with Dame Shirley Bassey when I say that Cardiff Bay will always be Tiger Bay to me. It was known as Tiger Bay for a reason, and that is denying its past one would suggest?
@JWB86
5 жыл бұрын
Call it what you wish. The beauty of free speech.
@TheAlmightyAss
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Well before it was tiger bay it was called something else, before that something else etc
Wow Dorothy Taylor. Alwin I Have Call My Ma In America
@derrimali7796
8 жыл бұрын
thank u Mrs Watkins guga
Crickey is he gay ?
@lS-wc5yp
3 жыл бұрын
That's my cosuin and he passed way think b4 u speak
@LHMusicCF
3 жыл бұрын
who cares?
@TheAlmightyAss
Жыл бұрын
Imagine if he was gay can you just imagine it? I mean, really imagine if he was gay!
@tommyhassan3545
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Your iron hoof mate