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6 comments

  1. Mike Crocker
    February 23, 2013 at 11:32 am

    Hi Dic, I’ve a facebook page re Cardiff history etc, is it okay to pick up some of your pics. Mike

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    • dicmortimer
      February 23, 2013 at 2:21 pm

      Sure man.

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  2. hilary
    January 5, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    for some reason i dont seem to be able to e mail however i will try aagain. have you anym0re info on the george in caroline street my great great grandmother married thomas davies who owned or managed it .her name was mary ann price

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  3. hilary
    January 5, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    sorry should have given a date,it would have been about 1850 to 1860 ish

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  4. Viv Head (a bloke)
    May 18, 2021 at 9:49 am

    Hello Dic, I am a researcher with the British Transport Police History Group. I live in Cardiff. I have your A-Z of Cardiff book and was interested to read about the murder of five year old Joyce Cox on a railway embankment at Coryton in 1939. The item ends with an intriguing sentence about the police not willing to release their file. I have done some BNA research to get the background. Do you know any more than is in the book?

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    • dicmortimer
      May 19, 2021 at 10:21 am

      Apparently a cousin of Joyce’s has discovered that the Met Police, who were drafted in to help in the original enquiry and for some reason retain the file, have stated they are not prepared to release the documents until 2040. Incidentally, ‘Cardiff Killings’ on this blog is a much superior and regularly updated version of the chapter in A-Z of Cardiff you refer to (‘X-Certificate’).

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