Unearthed pictures of Cardiff show how much has changed since the '60s

Take a trip back in time to the city decades ago from above

Cardiff is an ever-evolving city that never sits still. These pictures come from the National Museum of Wales and its collection.

The photos were taken in the 1960s and 1970s by Terence Soames (Cardiff) Ltd who were founded in 1946 and specialised in aerial photography.

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On the left are the cooling towers of Cardiff Corporation Power Station (Roath or Newport Road Power Station) and Colchester Avenue Industrial Estate. In the foreground, between the overbridge of Rover Way crossing the south Wales main railway line on the left (west) and the River Rhymney on the right (east), is Pengam Freightliner Terminal, which opened in June 1967

Viewed from the northwest, showing many of the buildings of the International Alloys Limited Second World War plant for extracting magnesium from seawater which functioned from approximately 1941 to 1946. In the middle distance are the cooling towers of Cardiff Corporation Power Station (Roath or Newport Road Power Station) and beyond light industries in Newport Road