Information Sources for Cathays Park

• A.A. Pettigrew: The Public Parks and Recreation Grounds of Cardiff
  An unpublished account of the history of Cardiff's parks in six volumes, available for reference in the Cardiff Central Library Local Studies department. As well as other references to Cathays Park there are dedicated sections in volume 2, pages 149-182, and volume 5, pages 1-26.
• W. Nelmes: A Brief History of the Cardiff Parks(pdf)
  Published in Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society volume LXXXVII 1957/58 pages 5 to 12, this is available via Welsh Journals Online
• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales - Coflein(pdf)
  Cathays Park entry in the National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW), the national collection of information about the historic environment of Wales. The name is derived from the Welsh cof (memory) and lein (line).
• Western mail newspaper articles
  Contemporary reports and notices from the 1880s and 1890s, accessed via the British Newspaper Archive or 19th Century British Library Newspapers
• Cardiff Council - minutes of meetings - available for consultation at the Glamorgan Archives
• Cardiff Parks Superintendent's Report Book(pdf) A handwritten book covering the period January 1908 to October 1912 inclusive, currently in the care of the Cardiff Council's Parks Service.
• 1938 Inventory of Parks Buildings and Equipment as html   or(pdf)
  This is a handwritten book, prepared as an insurance inventory in April 1938. This book is currently in the care of the Cardiff Council's Parks Service.
• The aerial photography unit of the Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ
  Email: AerialPhotoOfficer@gov.wales
  The Welsh Government can be contacted by telephone on 0300 0604400
• Cities of Great Britain (No. 6) - Cardiff
  Cardiff - Scenes of City & its surroundings - video newsreel film British Pathé, 1931
• Photographs of Cathays Park (Wikimedia commons)
• British Pathé; Film - Town Hall & Law Courts approx 1910-1920
• Cardiff's Civic Centre : A Historical Guide by Edgar L.Chappell. Published: Cardiff : Priory Press, 1946
• The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan by John Newman. Yale University Press, 2004

• For each of these parts of Cathays Park there is a dedicated section in volume 5 of A.A. Pettigrew: The Public Parks and Recreation Grounds of Cardiff

• Superb Buildings erected by E. Turner and Sons. Published by Edward J. Burrow and Co. Ltd, London and Cheltenham, 1929
• A Short History of the College 1883-1933, by A. H. Trow and D. J. A. Brown. Published 1933
• Fountains of Praise, edited by Gwyn Jones and Michael Quinn. Published by University College Cardiff Press 1983
• University College, Cardiff : a centenary history, 1883-1983 edited by S.B. Chrimes. Unpublished, available from Cardiff University Library Service
• Cardiff University: A Celebration, by Vanessa Cunningham & John Goodwin. Published Cardiff University, 2001
• British Pathé Film - Duke Opens Mining Department Cardiff University 1960

• A.A. Pettigrew: The Public Parks and Recreation Grounds of Cardiff
  An unpublished account of the history of Cardiff's parks and is available for reference in the Cardiff Central Library Local Studies Department. There is a dedicated section for Greyfriars in volume 5.

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