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Throughout the 19th century, Cardiff transformed rapidly from a small town into Wales’s largest city and the world’s busiest coal port; a great deal of its built heritage is consequently Victorian.

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Like Butetown across the Taff, Grangetown is largely Victorian. It was built to provide housing for workers at Cardiff’s docks and has, by and large, retained a working-class community. This has become increasingly multicultural as migrant dockers have settled here over the years. You get an idea of how ethnically diverse the docks were in J Lee Thompson’s 1959 film Tiger Bay.

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