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Sitting in between three popular Cardiff primary schools is the Beechley Drive flats, or more locally known as “the top shops”. A block of retail units with residential maisonettes directly above them.
We believe the Beechley Drive block has stood strong since the 1940’s / 1950’s until it was demolished in 2015 to make way for a development costing Cardiff County Council more than £2million.
Beechley Drive Flats …
Visit Date: November 2014
This was your typical housing estate property and over the years it became a hotspot
for youths to gather, causing mild trouble through boredom. In the mid 1970’s, photographs
published by WalesOnline shows graffiti over the walls and a large number of youths
hanging around passing time. Over the years that followed, this continued, with the
level of anti-
Having been a former pupil of Pentrebane Primary School myself, I recall a time when a male within the property was aiming a handheld air gun out of a window, pointing it directly at the school windows. Although never likely going to even reach the school, let alone cause damage, Pentrebane Primary School was placed on a form of lockdown and police attended immediately.
This would have been around 1998 / 1999 and I recall the male being arrested by the police a few moments after arriving.
Although many will always look at this building and think about it being a place for trouble and a typical council estate block, to the local community, it was so much more than that. It was where many would do their daily shopping, grab their fresh fruit and veg or an evening chippy. It was a place where you could meet three men named Ken in the local corner shop and they all knew you.
The Beechley Drive Flats, and of course shops, will be remembered by most within the community for the laughter and joy it gave.
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