Canton has changed dramatically over the years. Shops have come and gone. The site where Tesco's is now used to be a dance hall at one time. The Bingo club used to be a cinema- there was another cinema over the road which is now a Doctors surgery. The Iceland supermarket used to be a cinema. So there was 3 cinema's in Canton which have been replaced by 2 cinema's in Chapter. A lot of people still don't realise there is a cinema in Chapter. They have gone from being a Hare Krishna base where you could go in and get Lentil Stew at any time, to having 3 theatre spaces, 2 cinemas and a famous bar.
I did actually used to go to school there when it was a staging school for Fitzalan. While they were waiting for Fitzalan to be finished off they used Chapter. Fitzalan is off Broad Street in Leckwith. That was when the big idea of comprehensive education came in, they abolished the 11+ . They built Fitzalan High School and Cantonia to cover Leckwith, Victoria Park, Canton, Riverside and Grangetown. Fitzalan had 1800 pupils, Cantonia was the same. While they were building these schools they opened up old schools as an intermediate measure. My father did actually go to school in Chapter.