part 3 of Pictures of St. Fagans, lovely open air museum

[dieastra]

On with last year's Cardiff travel report - need to finish these before the travels I have planned for this year. Some of you might already have seen my Cardiff photoalbum - provided by Pixopolis, the company which printed it. Love that you can look through it online!

http://www.pixopolis.de/kundenportal/fotobuch_vorschau/index.php?vorschau=110221-33618

But I still want to post all the pictures in the LJ as well, as the link above will vanish one day, plus in here I can give more explanations.

On to part 3

Directly around the corner from the the Oakdale Workmen’s Institute we found the Gwalia stores and Gwalia Tea rooms. And I'm sure every Doctor Who fan will recognize those from the episodes "Human Nature/Family of Blood" - here did the Doctor aka John Smith walk with Joan, and here the piano threatened to fall on the baby carriage. As always, more pictures under the LJ cut.







That's me, by the way!





The inside of the shop is worth looking at as well:











Not far from that we ran into some pigs. It's worth noting those because of the barn that stood behind them.



No, not this one - what you see at the left side in the background is called an Aluminium Prefab - after World War II they were constructed from airplane pieces and whatever was left over. They turned out to be so popular that till this day people live in such houses.



No, not that pigsty, either - although I loved that one as well as it looked exactly like the one in "Shaun the Sheep"



But what I mean is this barn - where the TARDIS was hidden.





Martha sometimes came by bicycle to visit it - remember? That's the way she came through the woods:



I also loved the Rhyd-y-Car Ironworkers' Houses



Each one was furnished from a different time period - from 1805 (far left) till modern 1985 (far right). These are basically only one small room and one even smaller one at the backside, which sometimes was used as bedroom, other times as a kitchen.

Here are many more pictures:



























Note the thick magnifying glass in front of the TV! Never have seen something like this before.









At the other side did a small garden belong to each house, where they grew vegetables and such, but I leave those pictures for another day.

As always my thanks goes to my friends, whom many of those pictures belong to.



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To be continued
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previously: part 2 of Pictures of St. Fagans, Dr. Who filming location
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Comments

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

Lovely! How fun!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it, even without getting the references! It's a lovely place indeed and in November I will go back (got tickets for another concert). Can't wait!

[colej55.livejournal.com]

Old Welsh villages are so quaint and inviting. I can't remember the name of the town I visited, but it looked very similar to what is shown in your lovely photos. Thanks again for the tours!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Love to share pictures. I will go back to the place in November!

[beefie251.livejournal.com]

Nice pics. A modern phonebox in old Cardiff. *LOL*

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Yeah ;) Would have been even better if it was blue!

[phonetur-k.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been there! The chickens chased me a lot.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

LOL you too? When we sat down on a bench at the farm, suddenly a lot of chickens, ducks and turkeys ran towards us - they apparently wanted to get fed ;)
Lovely place, I want to go back this November.

[phonetur-k.livejournal.com]

I live in Wales, so I was bound to go there at some point. We all eventually do, haha!

It's quite a charming place, though, so it's all fine.

I was genuinely too scared to even try to feed them, they just kept running after me.

[elenopa.livejournal.com]

I could have spent so much longer at St Fagans when I went a couple of years back. It's great isn't it?

Thanks for the photos. I used up the memory on my camera when I went so don't have many.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Hope you also found the previous parts! And you're welcome, there will be some more, also of the castle and the park. Not much flowers around in October, but still lovely.

As soon as I read in my travel guide about this open air museum I said that I want to go there - that was even before I knew that it was a Doctor Who location. Last year I visited something similar near Vancouver, a little old American town, and I loved it.

[sharp2799.livejournal.com]

Oh, fabulous photos! In looking at the row of houses, isn't it funny that the one with modern windows on the right side looks out of place to me? (Of course, I'd probably demand those windows if I lived there!)