It was right on the fold of my decrepit 1950s Cardiff map, so all I can make
out from that is that it ended in Road.
It is un-named in the 1930s Ward Lock Guide to South Wales.
Using
www.old-maps.co.uk the road is unnamed on a number of maps. There is
one post-war one where you can make out ... Park Road. The best evidence
from that source is the 1982 Russian map where what appears seems to be a
transliteration of Cathays Park Road, done with an assumption that the 'h'
is the start of a new syllable like Hayes, rather than knowledge of the
local pronunciation. Searching for City Hall, Cardiff gets you near the
right place.
There were never any buildings on the stretch alongside the old canal
feeder, so the name would only have appeared on plans for provision of
services like streetlights, and on bus timetables, apart from the street
signs at either end.
The piece of Boulevard de Nantes in front of the Law Courts may well not
have had the same name. I think it was regarded as a continuation of the
road across the front of the Museum and City Hall.
If someone has one of those old road atlases or AA books that had town plans
of the centres of various towns and cities, you may get better evidence.
Boulevard de Nantes records the post-WW2 'twinning' of Cardiff and Nantes in
France, and its continuation, Stuttgarter Strasse, the 'twinning' of Cardiff
and Stuttgart in Germany. I suspect that the re-naming took place in the mid
or late 1960s or early 1970s.
Jeff
( who took part in the Cardiff-Nantes exchange in 1961)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ward" <glyndwr1945(a)me.com>
To: <glamorgan(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:38 PM
Subject: [GLA] Boulevard de Nantes Cardiff
To settle a family discussion can anyone confirm the previous name of the
street now known as the Boulevard de Nantes in Cardiff please?
The popular notion is that it was Cathays Park Road but I can find no
evidence of this.
Best wishes
Mike Ward