Street party in Oakley St, Grangetown, #Cardiff in May 1945. 25,000 at the civic centre marked the end of #WW2 in Europe with prayers of thanksgiving, hymns, a public broadcast of Churchill's speech, a minute's silence for 1,300 local dead. Then hours of celebration! #VEDay80

There will be a chance to remember those Grangetown people lost in two world wars at the memorial in Grange Gardens, at 11am. All those who died and their details are on our online memorials https://t.co/3I31Mrl3yI

William Sampson, 20, a Royal Navy mechanic was one of six men on his landing craft to die, on Juno beach on #DDay 6 June 1944. Dairy worker and son of #Grangetown milkman, he joined up in 1942. Ex-Severn Rd and Canton HS pupil, family lived in Clare Rd & Riverside. #Remember

There's the Remembrance Sunday service at the Grange Gardens memorial #Grangetown at 10.50 on 12 November. #LestWeForget2023

It's 80 years #OnThisDay #WW2 that ex-Welsh lightweight boxing champ Albert Love died, aged 31. He was in awful conditions as PoW in Indonesia. Won bronze in first Empire Games in 1930. Lived Chester St and was bombardier in Royal Artillery #Grangetown

Ernest Jones, 31, from Warwick Street, #Grangetown died on 2 Nov 1943. A gunner with Royal Artillery, he may have been a POW working on the Malayan railway. #WW2

Our next in-person talk in Cardiff is at Cathays Cemetery chapel on Tuesday 7th November, starting at 7pm. we’re looking forward to welcoming @tedrichardsCYM from @RoathHistory speaking about the Roath Virtual War Memorial (@RoathMemorial). Free entry, all welcome. @GlamorganFHS

Pte Trevor Jones, 28, died on this day in 1943 in Sicily #WW2. Seconded to Durham Light Inf for island invasion and battle of Pimosole Bridge. Eldest child of John and Grace Jones, of 32 Dorset St #Grangetown. Ex-Ninian Park schoolboy and an upholsterer before war.

#Grangetown aircraft electrician Albert 'Jack' Stockford, 21, of Ferry Rd, one of those killed in this #WW2 tragedy, 80 years ago. BBC News - Families of #HMSDasher dead want honest answers https://t.co/9dHYKibmAD

@SteveDuffy99 @GrangetownWWI @GLHS1 @BBCHughPym

More poignant than ever with war raging again …a letter written 104 years ago today to my gt grandmother of Stockland St Grangetown from a hospital padre letting her know her son was wounded but well @GrangetownWWI @GLHS1

81 years ago was the worst night of the #Cardiff Blitz. Forthcoming book in 2022 will tell of some tragedy but also quiet heroism and lucky escapes for citizens during #WW2 inc many first-hand accounts and untold stories #history

A lot of painstaking work has gone into Ceri Stennett's new book, researching #WW2 fallen on Whitchurch war memorial (and missing names) and others in north Cardiff. Human beings not just names and numbers. Email ceristennett@gmail.com for orders

Well attended #RemembranceDay2021 service at Grangetown war memorial. As well as 330 names here, another 800 men, women and children who died in #WW1 and #WW2 are not forgotten and included on our online memorial

GLHS placed their tribute today.

Good news the Grangetown Gas Works Plaque with the names of their employees who were lost in WW1 will eventually have a new home in St. Paul's Church, Grangetown.

There were more than 90 maritime casualties from #Grangetown in #WW1 and at least 108 in #WW2. Remembering all Merchant Navy and RN losses from Cardiff at the Cardiff Bay memorial on Saturday, just before 11 #RemembranceDay2021

There are around 800 men, women and children from #Grangetown who died in two world wars - 330 names on the war memorial and others remembered online https://t.co/3I31Mrl3yI #remebranceday Service at Grange Gardens on Sunday, 10.55

The story of the Cardiff City player who died two days before the end of #WW1 #Grangetown #CardiffCity https://t.co/D5nRGAe1Cu

If you saw the v interesting BBC story about the HMS Dasher #WW2 tragedy, Jack Stockford, 21, from Ferry Rd, was an aircraft electrician on the aircraft carrier. Ex-Grange Council School pupil and popular local soccer player, he was a GWR worker, before joining up in 1941.