Butetown

Butetown (or The Docks, Welsh: Tre-biwt) is a district and community in the south of the city of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. It was originally a model housing estate built in the early 19th century by the 2nd Marquess of Bute, for whose title the area was named. Commonly known as Tiger Bay, the area became one of the UK's first multicultural communities. By WW1, seafarers from over 50 maritime nations, including Greece, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Yemen, were employed on the Cardiff Docks. A Greek Orthodox church still stands at the top of Bute Street. It is known as one of the Five towns of Cardiff, the others being: Crockherbtown; Grangetown; Newtown; Temperance Town. The population of the ward and community taken at the 2011 census was 10,125. It is estimated that the Butetown's population increased to 14,094 by 2019. By 1911 the proportion of Cardiff's population that was black or Asian was second in the UK to London, though mainly concentrated in the dock areas such as Tiger Bay. The district was one of the epicentres of the 1919 South Wales race riots, with eyewitnesses reporting six deaths instead of the official accounts of three, and with nearly all arrests made by the Cardiff police being of the local ethnic minority population instead of the white soldiers who had instigated the riots.