- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Butetown History & Arts Centre; 1st edition (Aug 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1898317054
- ISBN-13: 978-1898317050
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.6 x 1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 572,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Combining history and humour, poetry and prose, this book is a perceptive insider's view of life in old Cardiff docklands. There are stories aplenty—of Tiger Bay, the Docks and the Glamorganshire Canal; of churches, missions and street corner bookies; of seamen, dock workers and the fat lady who had three sailor husands, each convinced that she was his faithful spouse. Not all the stories are happy: there are sad ones too. These are lyrical tales, history as recalled through the eyes of an old seaman, a trip down memory lane that can be read and enjoyed by all.
From the Author
I first shook hands with Cardiff as a boy seaman in the mid-thirties. Since those days I have walked every inch of the docklands a thousand times, from the foreshore to the Hayes. It was magic all those years back, and now, more than six decades later, it still is.
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