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The history of Cardiff—a City and County Borough and the capital of Wales—spans at least 6,000 years. The area around Cardiff has been inhabited by modern humans since the Neolithic Period. Four Neolithic burial chambers stand within a radius of 10 mi (16 km) of Cardiff City Centre, with the St Lythans burial chamber the nearest, at about 4 ...
Domestic real estate represented the largest non-financial asset in the UK, with a net worth of £5.1trillion (2014). [3] Foreign investment plays a substantial role in the UK's real estate market, particularly in London, and foreign companies and individuals invested around £20billion in UK real estate in 2012. [4] [needs update]
1955: Cardiff was officially recognised as the capital city of Wales. [5] A map of Cardiff in 1946. 1956: Cardiff ceased being a fishing port after 70 years. [5] 1958: The British Empire and Commonwealth Games opened at Cardiff Arms Park. [16] The Wales Empire Pool opened for the Games. [27] 1959: The movie Tiger Bay was released. It was partly ...
The area which Mount Stuart Square currently occupies was originally coastal mudflat. [2] In its present form, it is an urban area, bordered by the A4119 James Street, a major road to the south, early twentieth century social housing to the north (on a site which had previously been used as a rail yard), historic commercial properties to the east on West Bute Street, and the historic ...
From the 1970s on, the steel industry contracted, with works at Ebbw Vale, Shotton and East Moors in Cardiff closing and layoffs elsewhere. The early 1980s recession had a bigger impact in Wales than in other parts of the UK: between 1979 and 1982, Wales lost 130,000 jobs [5] and the employment rate fell to 62%. [8]
In October 2014 another master plan was announced, this time led by Cardiff based real estate development company Rightacres Property, including one million square feet (9.3 hectares) of new office space and a 200-bed hotel. The master plan was being overseen by Foster and Partners, led by Cardiff-born partner Gerard Evenden. [9]
Park House (Welsh: Tŷ Parc; formerly McConnochie House), 20 Park Place, Cardiff, Wales, is a nineteenth century town house.It was built for John McConnochie, Chief Engineer to the Bute Docks, by the Gothic revivalist architect William Burges.
1997 The group reported a £7 million trading loss for the year, resulting in disposals of: part of the residential property management business, the plant and machinery business, withdrawal from the joint brokerage business in the US, the sale of the holding in the joint US mortgage advisory venture, the sale of the only Chestertons ...