Cardiff street names

[sherrardk]

Anyone have any idea how Cardiff came to have a Struttgarter Strasse leading to Boulevard de Nantes? Seems a bit odd.

[dotty.]

Well i worked in St Mary's Street and the store backed onto the Hayes but I don't remember those two!

[Buenchico]

From Wikipedia:
"Boulevard de Nantes and Stuttgarter Strasse, named after Cardiff's twin cities . . . "

http://en.wikipedia.o...i/Cardiff_city_centre

[pretty_snowdrop]

They are named after Stuttgart and Nantes, Cardiffs twin cities .

[sherrardk]

Hi Dotty - they are just between the main shopping street and the museum, obviously I had just never noticed them before.

Hi Buenchico - I tried Wikipedia and didn't find anything (obviously didn't try that hard!)

[sherrardk]

Sorry Snowdrop - you weren't there when I started.

[dotty.]

Stuttgarter strasse used to be Dumfries Street

[starone]

You learn something every day, don't you. And I immediately thought it was because it was a port and there were a lot of foreign people coming in, so it was to make them feel at home. Silly me!

[DaisyNonna]

Cardiff! Scene of a well miss-spent youth. Really miss the rain.