Broadway

An ancient road of medieval origin, previously called Green Lane and for a time Garnet Street before being rebranded Broadway in 1875. Two classic pubs, the Royal Oak and the Clifton Hotel, remain at either end but many have now gone.  The old Broadway Methodist church building was destroyed in a fire in 1989. 

Arthur Webber outside his cycle shop at 10 Broadway.  Shop opened initially in 1912 and closed in 1971.  Arthur Thomas Webber was born in Bristol in 1892 to William Andrew Webber, a mechanical engineer and Edith Emily Webber née Stickler, a laundress.  In 1911 William was a boarding at Holmesdale Street in Grangetown and working as a laundry man. He opened the shop at 10 Broadway in 1912 which was initially a laundry shop in the 1922 Cardiff Directory but by the following year was described as a Cycle Agent and Dealer. The 1958 Directory similarly described 10 Broadway was Arth.T.Webber, Cycle Agent.  The shop closed in 1971. (photo credit: John Webber, grandson).
Broadway in 1892 near junction with Newport Road with the New Dock tavern on the right and the Royal Oak beyond it.