Today’s trip on the No.61 took me from the Cardiff Bus Interchange, out through Pontcanna and onto the Fairwater and Pentrebane housing estates. By the time you get to Firs Avenue in Pentrebane you have gained a fair bit of height and get some nice views.
One feature of the area is the golf-ball like water tower. Nearby is the Ty Bronna trig point. Being a trig point enthusiast I gave it a visit. I fear its days may be numbered as the field in which it sits is laid out for housing development. Will it survive? Will it be destroyed? Will it be moved? Who knows. It is not the best specimen of a trig point now without a spider, flush bracket or sight holes. It sort of makes me wonder if it is the original trig point or some sort of replica replacement.
As there didn’t seem to be anywhere In Pentrebane to pick up a beverage I headed over to St Fagans. It really was a lovely walk through the woods to get there. I can recommend it.
I took a look at the house where the first man to get to the South Pole lived. I can hear you all shouting at me that Amundsen. Well, he was the first to get to the geographical South Pole. The first to get to the magnetic South Pole was Edgeworth David in 1909 who was part of Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition. He was son of the Rector in St Fagans and grew up on the old Rectory.
I had lunch in the Plymouth Arms; a sausage roll and a pint of Bass. The former was tasty, the later not so good. My book for the day was ‘Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths around Swansea’, a nicely researched and written book from a local history point of view.
A walk back through the woods to Pentrebane to pick up the 61 back to town made for a good day out.
Cardiff Capers 