Talk:Cardiff Blitz

Stephen Coles' book Cardiff Air Raids 1939 - 1945

Cardiff Air Raids 1939 - 1945 by Stephen Cole 2007, published by Cardiff Central Library's Local Studies Department and available there - has a list of air raids, facsimiles of contemporary news reports, bibliography etc - but not to hand at the moment for me to alter front page of this article with exact details.DaiSaw (talk) 14:50, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Cathedral / memorial

I visited Llandaff in Cardiff recently, and ran into a nice old man who told me stories about the blitz - specifically about a bomb that hit the cathedral cemetery and sent all sorts of things (...) flying - including part of a tombstone that flew a long way away and smashed into a house.
I don't think that can count as a citation, though he looked credible, so I'm not adding it in.. But if it helps Wikipedia, here are a few photos:

• Memorial
• The part of the tomb that flew into the house (I think)
• The cathedral (1)
• The cathedral (2)

All were shot by me, all can be freely used on Wikipedia for whatever the license requires. I can also provide slightly better originals.
If they are used I'll appreciate if someone can drop me a line and let me know :) ailaG (talk) 08:43, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Largest coal exporting port

It is only true to say that Cardiff was the largest coal-exporting port when the coal exported from Barry (which is 10 miles from, and not part of, Cardiff) is included in the total Cardiff tonnage.

Barry Docks was the larger coal-exporting port and exported more coal than Cardiff: "there was a time when Barry was the largest coal exporting port in Britain, possibly even the world." (Phil Carradice, 'The birth of Barry Docks', BBC 14 November 2011).

"Trade grew from one million tons in the first year [...] and as early as 1892 it was handling a third more coal than Cardiff Docks." Barry Railway Company

Acccording to Richard Watson " ... by 1913, [Barry Dock's] traffic totalled 4000 ships and 11 million tons of coal". (BBC, 'The Birth of Barry – When Coal was King', 2004) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.204.105.3 (talk) 17:46, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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WW2 buffs/SME's ...

This article could use some major fleshing-out by those interested. 1) what sort of resistance did the RAF and/later allies present to the Nazi bombing? 2) what were Nazi-Germany's losses in these raids? 3) what were the RAF losses? 4) specifics on what effect the damage had on UK/Allied operations in Great Britain? 5) how far were the Luftwaffe's bombers stretched on fuel to make the journey? I'm sure there are other areas of interest that could also be addressed by some adventurous editors out there that may have this article on their watchlist! -HammerFilmFan 2603:6080:2103:3FA2:2512:3CAB:81E6:D86F (talk) 01:11, 2 January 2023 (UTC)