Tell me about Cardiff

[cyrano]

Can anybody tell me about the state of immigration in Britain (specifically Wales) in post WWI?
It looks like the Pakistani immigration didn't really get big until the 1950s, but I don't see anything about Caribbean or Indian or African immigration. (Or possibly Irish immigration, I don't know. I'm a bad history major.)

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I figured there *must* have been, yeah. Eastern European had not even occurred to me for some reason. But it sounds like I can go pretty cosmopolitan, and not be too far off.

[fayroberts.livejournal.com]

Oh, hell yeah. As cosmopolitan as you like - it wasn't called Tiger Bay because Tigers were common in South Wales! :)

[fayroberts.livejournal.com]

But specifically mostly in the Bay area...

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Right, I figure the bay is also largely proletariat, and as you get further inland the city goes whiter and richer.

[fayroberts.livejournal.com]

YES.

Depending on the era, it also gets more Old Money the further north you go. Cyncoed, where my folks still live, is north-central, and used to be the Old Money, back in the day (1920s/ 30s). It was also a predominantly Jewish area (we had menulkahs on all the doors of our house in particular - almost as if the previous owners were really, really scared of something getting in...).

I'm guessing that Cyncoed, Radyr and Llandaf would have been pretty genteel (or, at least, rich) in 1920, but then when you start getting into the villages and vallyers beyond... less so...

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

almost as if the previous owners were really, really scared of something getting in...

Oh excellent. Thank you. (:

[fayroberts.livejournal.com]

I figured you'd appreciate that :) True story.