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Today, St Fagans is synonymous with the National History Museum, the "living" archive of everything that’s good about Wales.

While the castle itself has been much added on to since the museum on the outskirts of Cardiff was founded, the core and, indeed, the gardens, remain as they once were – a fine example of a palatial residence for a wealthy aristocrat.

When the estate gifted St Fagans to Wales at the end of World War II, the family’s physical presence all but disappeared.

But the Earls’ links to South Wales are many and varied. Their wealth stems from land ownership (principally the ironworks that bore their name in Merthyr Tydfil). And their influence on Penarth, where the estate is still a significant landowner, can be seen in place names such as Windsor Road, Stanwell School (Stanwell in Buckinghamshire was an old earl’s parliamentary seat) and the St Fagans pub.

Today, apart from the museum, the village is known principally as the home to an excellent cricket team, a level crossing that, whenever you decide to use the village as a short cut to Culverhouse Cross, always seems to be closed, and a fine old pub, the Plymouth Arms.

Anyone thinking of a pub crawl taking in St Fagans and nearby Radyr would do well to start in St Fagans and make the most of the Plymouth Arms.

Radyr, picturesque and leafy though it may be, must be one of the few large communities in the Cardiff area without a pub.

Rumour has it, though, that you can get a decent pint at the golf club where visitors – suitably attired of course – are always welcome.

But pub or no pub, as our pictures this week will serve to remind us, Radyr – and St Fagans – have much to commend them

:: If you see yourself in these pictures, or find memories sparked by any of our images of yesteryear, email martin.wells@walesonline.co.uk or write to us at the usual address. You can also contact Martin on 029 2024 3805.