Douglas Bordic used to visit his Uncle and Great aunt down the docks. At 17 he joined the navy.

There was also James Street, which is of course still there. Now James Street in case you don't know and all of the docks, was built about 1839 and James Street had all the wonderful interesting shops down there to me. I feel Cardiff is absolutely hopeless now, there is no character you can go around the city centre and you have got Samuel's, Debenhams , it is the same in Newport- I have been told they even dress the windows the same. Now James Street had Boles which was big tobacco people with shops all over Cardiff. Patersons who was a shipping Butcher and Reece and Gwillams who had a ships Chandlers as well as groceries. I can remember my uncle took me in there and they had ships biscuits as big as this and about an inch thick. 6p they were and he bought me one. He said now when you get home have one for your breakfast. Pour boiling water all over them and sprinkle them with sugar. Well II think I had 5 and by the end of the week if I had finished them I would have had no teethe left! As a kid I imagined myself going around Cape horn, you know, sat on the sea chest.