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5WA was a British Broadcasting Company (later BBC) radio station which broadcast from Cardiff, Wales, between 1923 and 1927.

"A plaque commemorating the first public broadcast in Wales on 13 February 1923, from the radio station 5WA, an indirect ancestor of BBC Radio Wales. It broadcast from a tiny studio at the former Castle Picture Theatre." from https://www.thecastleemporium.co.uk/the-history

Birmingham was the first British city outside London to have a radio service from the newly formed British Broadcasting Company, with 5IT starting regular broadcasting from its Witton base at 17:00 on 15 November 1922,[1]: 207  one day after 2LO started daily BBC broadcasting from London[1]: 157  and one hour before the 18:00 launch of Manchester's 2ZY.[1]: 161  5IT pioneered many innovations in early broadcasting, launching Children's Hour in 1922,[2] developing sophisticated methods of programme control and employing the first full-time announcers in 1923.[3] The station's first announcer on its opening night was its general manager Percy Edgar,[3] who was to be the dominant figure in Birmingham broadcasting and the BBC's most influential regional director until his retirement in 1948.[4]: 311 

5IT moved its studios from Witton to a former cinema in New Street in 1923, moving again in 1926 to a completely new building in Broad Street with two studios – one of the largest the country,[5] if not Europe. The Broad Street studios now controlled and made programmes for a region stretching across central England from The Potteries to Norfolk.

From 21 August 1927 the low-powered city station 5IT was replaced by the 5GB (the BBC Midland Region) – the first of the BBC's regional services[6] – broadcast from the new high powered Daventry transmitting station at Borough Hill near Daventry.[4]: 282 

Cardiff claims to have the largest concentration of castles of any city in the world.[7] As well as Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch, there is also the ruined Llandaff Bishop's Palace, also known as Llandaff Castle,[8] which was the home of the medieval bishops, which was destroyed about 1403–1404 by the Welsh leader Owain Glyndŵr. Now only the ruined gatehouse remains.[8] Not strictly a castle in the historical sense, St Fagans Castle is a preserved 17th-century manor house, once the seat of the Earls of Plymouth. In addition, there have been four motte-and-bailey castles in Cardiff, the ruined Morganstown Castle Mound in Morganstown,[9] Twmpath Castle in Rhiwbina,[10] and Caer Castell in Rumney,[11] and lastly the former Treoda Castle Mound in Whitchurch which was completely removed by a housing development in the 1960s.[12][13]


Bute Dock Police
Agency overview
Formed1858
Dissolved1922
Employees40
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionCardiff Docks


https://www.cardiff.gov.uk/ENG/resident/Planning/Documents/Scheduled%20Monuments%20%20-%20Eng.pdf http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/Welshsites/430.html https://ancientmonuments.uk/130566-morganstown-castle-mound-radyr-and-morganstown#.YpxoXoPMLy8

http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/Welshsites/412.html LLANDAFF BISHOPS PALACE

Parc Cefn Onn

The bridge measures 43m long between land piers, with an overall length of 61m, by 3.5m wide between the parapet walls. The bridge, built of squared and coursed sandstone, has two segmental ribbed arches, each with a span of 18.4m

Warkworth Bridge

Coordinates55°20′59″N 1°36′36″W / 55.34965°N 1.60997°W / 55.34965; -1.60997
Carriespedestrians
Characteristics
DesignArch bridge
MaterialStone and setts
Total length61 metres (200 feet)
Width3.5 m (11 ft)
Longest span43 m (141 ft)
No. of spans2
Piers in water1
No. of lanes1
History
Construction cost20 marks
Statistics
TollFree public access
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameWarkworth Bridge[14]
Designated31 December 1969; 54 years ago (1969-12-31)
Reference no.1041732[14]
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameBridge Head Tower[15]
Designated31 December 1969; 54 years ago (1969-12-31)
Reference no.1154927[15]
Official nameWarkworth Bridge and defensive gateway[16]
Designated6 April 1929; 95 years ago (1929-04-06)
Reference no.1020741[16]
Location
Map

Warkworth Bridge, also known as Warkworth Old Bridge or the Warkworth Medieval Bridge, and its fortified gateway bridge tower is a double-arch stone footbridge, which spans the River Coquet at Warkworth in Northumberland, England. Both the gateway tower, called the Bridge Head Tower and the bridge itself have statutory protection as a scheduled ancient monument and are grade II listed structures. Both structures were built in the late 14th century. Historic England believe that it is the only remaining fortified bridge left in England. A new bridge was constructed and opened on 8th July 1965, which today carries the main A1068 road, and is known as the Warkworth New Bridge.

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  4. ^ a b Briggs 1965
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  14. ^ a b Historic England. "Warkworth Bridge (Grade II) (1041732)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  15. ^ a b Historic England. "Bridge Head Tower (Grade II) (1154927)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  16. ^ a b Historic England. "Warkworth Bridge and defensive gateway (Grade SM) (1020741)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2022.