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Newtown was a residential area of Cardiff, Wales that was also known as 'Little Ireland' because of its population of Irish families. Its six streets and 200 houses existed from the mid-nineteenth century until they were demolished in 1970. It is known as the "5 towns of Cardiff", the others being Butetown, Crockhertown, Grangetown and Temperance Town. ==History== The areas later known as Newtown and Adamsdown were the first significant areas of housing that developed outside of Cardiff's old town boundaries in the early nineteenth century, clearly evident by the 1830s.〔William Rees, ''Cardiff: A History of the City'', The Corporation of the City of Cardiff, 2nd edition (1969), pp. 298–299 (also maps and commentary facing p. 277)〕 In the years following the Irish Potato Famine of 1845 hundreds of Irish families began to arrive in Cardiff, often travelling as 'ballast' in ships from Cork and Waterford.〔David Morgan, ''The Cardiff Story: A History of the City from the Earliest Times to the Present'', Hackman Ltd, Tonypandy (1991), p.164〕 They were generally housed in Newtown, which had been purposely expanded by the Marquess of Bute to house construction workers for Cardiff's new docks.〔(History ), Newtown Association webpages. Retrieved 17 January 2012.〕 In 1850 the South Wales Railway (from Swansea to Chepstow) had been opened,〔William Rees, ''Cardiff: A History of the City'', The Corporation of the City of Cardiff, 2nd edition (1969), pp. 268–269〕 separating Adamsdown from Newtown. Newtown came to consist of six streets – Ellen Street, North Williams Street, Pendoylan Street and Pendoylan Place, Roland Street, Rosemary Street – immediately south of the railway and north of Tyndall Street. A footbridge gave access over the railway.〔(Streets ), Newtown Association webpages. Retrieved 17 January 2012.〕 Newtown became known as 'Little Ireland'.〔 Cardiff's first race riot occurred in Newtown in 1848. A Welshman, Thomas Lewis, had been stabbed to death by an Irishman, John Connors. Welsh mobs took the law into their own hands and headed to Newtown to find the culprit. At Lewis's funeral Irishmen with pick axes had to stand guard to ward off any further trouble.〔David Morgan, ''The Cardiff Story: A History of the City from the Earliest Times to the Present'', Hackman Ltd, Tonypandy (1991), p.179〕 By the 1930s, Newtown had already deteriorated to slum conditions.〔Stephen Fisk, (''Cardiff’s Lost Communities'' ), WalesOnline, 1 April 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2012.〕 Eventually, in 1966 the houses were compulsorily purchased in anticipation of the redevelopment of the old dock areas. In 1970 the houses were demolished.〔 The site became a trading estate. In 2010 this in turn had been demolished. It was aniticpated the area would be redeveloped for mixed-use, with new housing and offices.〔 One of the very last original remnants of Newtown, The Vulcan public house on Adam Street (originally Whitmore Lane, Newtown),〔James Preston, ("Cardiff's oldest pub looks set to close" ), ''The Cardiffian'', 20 March 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2013.〕 was demolished in 2012 with plans to rebuild it at St Fagans National History Museum.〔("Plans to rebuild Cardiff's Vulcan pub at St Fagans submitted" ), ''BBC News'', 28 July 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newtown, Cardiff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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