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Major changes to Cardiff's cityscape show no signs of slowing down.

The area outside the city's main train station - Central Square - has been changed beyond recognition, a decade after John Lewis and the St David's Shopping Centre transformed The Hayes and Mill Lane a stone's throw away.

The last 100 years or so have seen seismic changes to a city that once boasted one of the world's most important ports and is still a thriving European capital.

But what about the more recent past? How has the city changed from the days when C&A and John Menzies took pride of place on Cardiff's main shopping avenues?

Our photographers recreated those taken by our staff in the 1980s (as well as some from the 1970s and 1990s). Some of the results are quite brilliant.

For changes which go further back, there are these spellbinding pictures of the capital as you've never seen it before. And these pictures show the remarkable transformation of Cardiff Bay in the 20th century.

Mill Lane

(Image: Western Mail Archive)

(Image: Peter Bolter)

Queen Street

Newport Road

C&A

Capitol Cinema

Calders

The Hayes

The Odeon

Marks and Spencer

BHS

The bus station

(Image: South Wales Echo)

St Mary Street