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2 unusual facts about Tiger Bay


Martin Troakes

Martin Troakes is a British actor who has played Roy Hutchinson in Tiger Bay, Ian Williams in Holby City, Terry Kerns in The Bill, Security Guard in Ultimate Force, Jim Cullimore in Heartbeat, Glen Priddy in Dalziel and Pascoe, Gordon Bayliss in Doctors and Joe Walsh in New Tricks.

Mavis Nicholson

She has also presented several radio shows, including a history of the department store and a look back at her childhood in Tiger Bay.


Burke Shelley

Burke Shelley (born John Burke Shelley, 10 April 1947, Tiger Bay, Cardiff) is the bass guitarist and vocalist of the Welsh rock group Budgie.

Newport Transporter Bridge

The bridge provided the setting for some scenes in the 1959 British crime drama film Tiger Bay and also featured in an early scene in the 1972 experimental film The Other Side of the Underneath by Jane Arden which was reissued on DVD and Blu-ray by the British Film Institute in 2009.


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Burke Shelley

Shelley's singing voice on earlier Budgie recordings (e.g. the song "Parents" on the 1973 album Never Turn Your Back on a Friend) sometimes bears a marked resemblance, in timbre and style, to that of Shirley Bassey, who also grew up in Tiger Bay.

Ivan Ulz

Ulz's first song, A Letter to Hayley, was dedicated to the young English actress named Hayley Mills who starred in "Tiger Bay," "Whistle Down the Wind," and various American movies made by Disney during the 1960s.

Shawn Bishop

Bishop played for and captained Holmes Street, Tiger Bay in the Guinness Greatest of de Street four-a-side tournament in 2008.