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Diffusion photography festival – Old Tram Shed Cardiff

The first thing that hits you is the size of the space – the 2nd is the smell of motor oil and old worked metal (just like my dad’s old lathe in my youth, a reassuring smell) and the sound of the broken roof fans – clicking along. It’s been a while since it was used as […]

The first thing that hits you is the size of the space – the 2nd is the smell of motor oil and old worked metal (just like my dad’s old lathe in my youth, a reassuring smell) and the sound of the broken roof fans – clicking along.

It’s been a while since it was used as a tram shed and is now up for sale – but it would make a brilliant permanent location for art (or maybe a craft brewery!)

It’s open as part of the City Wide Cardiff International Festival of Photography aka Diffusion (1-31 May 2013)

But I went for the photos! – Especially the retrospective  of Welsh Valleys photos from the likes of David Hurn

Opening The Rhondda Fair, 1975 © David Hurn

and Philip Jones Griffiths

Boy Destroying Piano, 1961 © Philip Jones Griffiths

But to be honest I loved the tram shed (no not because it’s a shed)  the best – as a lot of the original signs and fitting where still there when the exhibition is over at the end of the month – they should do a exhibition of the tram shed!

Tramshed

Clare Road (entrance on Pendyris Street)
Grangetown
Cardiff
CF11 6QP

By Andrew Wilcox

Andrew Wilcox is a freelance web developer and digital marketing consultant based in Penarth, Wales, with over 25 years of experience in the industry. He has worked on numerous large news websites and content management systems within the media sector, and now helps businesses of all sizes with web development, SEO and digital marketing. Andrew is also the founder of the nationally recognised Shed of the Year competition, now in its 20th year, which he grew from an online project into a television partnership.