Information Sources for Roath 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  An unpublished account of the history of Cardiff's parks in six volumes, available for reference in the Cardiff Central Library Local Studies department.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 Roath Park there are dedicated sections in volume 2, pages 8-25 and 49-64, and volume 3, pages 20-39 and 113-224.
• Guide to Roath Park and Catalogue of Plants in Botanical Garden(pdf)
  Official guide written by W.W. Pettigrew and published by the Western Mail, 1905, available for reference in the Cardiff Central Library Local Studies department.
• 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
• The Public and the Parks Western Mail 28th July 1906
  Full transcription of an article featuring Cardiff's Parks from the Western Mail in July 1906
• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales - Coflein(pdf)
  Roath 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 Glamorgan Archives. From 1999 onwards Cardiff Council minutes and other documents may be found on the Council website.
• 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
• Youtube video: 1947 family outing to Roath Park Cardiff
• Cardiff the City of Flowers, cine film produced by City of Cardiff Parks Committee c.1960. Director of Parks W. Nelmes, M.B.E., Filmed by C. Fishwick, Narrator John Darran

• W.W. Pettigrew, Notes on the Hatchery and fish hatching at Roath Park, Reports and Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, Vol. XXXIV 1901-1902 pp. 53-62 (available from Welsh Journals Online)
• W.W. Pettigrew, The Botanical Garden Roath Park. Reports and Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, Vol. XXVII 1894-95 pp. 56-62.
• Cardiff Parks : maps and plans of Cardiff Parks, microfilm, available for reference in the Cardiff Central Library Local Studies department.

• British Pathé Film - Aquatic Gala (Roath Park Lake) approx 1915
• British Pathé Film - Amateur Rowing (Roath Park Lake) 8th July 1920
• British Pathé Film - Taff Swim (Roath Park Lake) 1932
• British Pathé Film - Taff Swim (Roath Park Lake) 1951

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