Queen Street Cardiff, decorated by a fairground roundabout
Queen Street (Welsh: Heol y Frenhines) is the main pedestrianised shopping street in the city. It is the main throughfare through the centre. Originally part of Crockherbtown,[3] the street was renamed in honour of Queen Victoria in 1886.[4] Queen Street was pedestrianised in 1974 and is served by Cardiff Queen Street railway station on Station Terrace. It meets Dumfries Place/Newport Road at its eastern end, Duke Street/Castle Street at its western, and Park Place approximately half-way along. Further down Park Place is the New Theatre, a local landmark is Principality House, head office of the Principality Building Society.[5] To the north running parallel is Greyfriars Road, referring to the site of an old monastery, a traditional office location that has recently seen conversion to bars, apartments and hotels as offices move to the new business parks on the edge of the city, or to the better connected southern end of the city centre. Cardiff city centre (Welsh: Canol Dinas Caerdydd) is the central business district of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. The area is tightly bounded by the river Taff to the west, the Civic centre to the north and railway lines and two railway stations - Central and Queen Street - to the south and east respectively. The city centre in Cardiff consists of principal shopping streets, Queen Street and St. Mary's Street, large shopping centres, and numerous arcades and lanes that house some more smaller and often specialist shops and boutiques. The city centre is going through a number of redevelopment projects that include the huge St. David's 2 project which will extend the shopping district southwards creating 100 new stores and a flagship John Lewis, the only branch in Wales and largest outside of London. In 2008-9, the annual footfall of shoppers was 55 million, and is expected to rise to 66 million in 2009-10.
Size: 5400px × 3599px
Location: Queen Street, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © haydn baker / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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