Splott the nearby rail line. One man died. The earliest known example of Welsh-language literature from Splott is a poem by the Elizabethan poet Dafydd Benwyn on the death of William Bawdrip of Splott. It includes the couplet: 'Du yw'r Ysblot dros y blaid, / Diweniaith, da i weiniaid' ('Splott is black for his people, / Without flattery, (he was) good to the weak'). With the growth of Splott as a suburb of Cardiff, English was established as the main language. The number of Welsh speakers in the area increased when East Moors Steelworks was opened in 1891 with large numbers
Crown Buildings, Cathays Park twenty years. In 1934–8, the block now known as Cathays Park 1 (a.k.a. CP1 or old Crown Building) was built by P. E. Hanton, as offices for the Welsh Board of Health. It is a three-storey building in the Stripped Classical style, with of floorspace. It also has an attic and a basement. Cathays Park 2 (a.k.a. CP2 or new Crown Building) is a five-storey office building with of floorspace, including an underground car park and a central atrium housing a cafe for the office staff. The "Encyclopaedia of Wales" describes CP2, completed in 1979, as conveying an impression of