BOB SAYS...

"A very merry Christmas and a happy new year to everybody and may next year bring joy and happiness to you"

Bob de Bilde (aka Bill de Dashe)

More about Splott

Splott was originally owned by the Bishop of Llandaff.

Famous for its name, (apparently a curruption of "God's plot"), one of Splott's famous citizens is Shirley Bassey, who went to Moorland Road School.

In 1905, around the time of the Wright brothers, another Splott man, Ernest Willows was pioneering airship flights. A school is named after him (along with a pub in Roath).

Splott

Splott (Welsh: Y Sblot) is a district in the south of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales.

It was built up in the late 19th century on the land of two farms of the same name: Upper Splott and Lower Splott Farms. Fanciful suggestions for the origin of the name include a truncation of "God's Plot", as the land belonged to the Bishop of Llandaff in medieval times and a derivation of "Plat" meaning a grassy area of land.

In fact, the name is based on the English noun "splot" ("a plot of land") which is also found in placenames in the Vale of Glamorgan, Gower and Pembrokeshire.

Splott is characterised by its once vast steelworks and rows of tightly knit terraced houses. The suburb of Splott falls into the Splott electoral ward.

The population of Splott in the United Kingdom Census 2001[1] was 12074, in 5101 households of which only 183 are detached homes. Of the 8221 adults in the area, 5000 have the lowest category of qualifications (Level 1 or below).