◊ City Rd., Cardiff - c.1905 - Another of Martin J. Ridley's photographic records, this time of a busy Cardiff road. The Institute for the Blind are making their rounds collecting for the good cause which continues to this day. The Cardiff Institute for the Blind was founded in April 1865 by Frances Batty Shand who was the daughter of a Jamaican plantation owner. After moving to Cardiff, she set up a small workshop employing five blind men to make baskets for coal ships. After employing ten more men, the workshop was relocated to Byron Street in Roath, later moving to Longcross Road near the Institute's former home on Newport Road. By 1900, around the date of this postcard image, the Institute was employing about 100 blind men and women in making baskets, brushes and mats. [043] This heritage postcard is held within the Penarth Dock Collection. [001] [M.J.R.B.7798] [20200217]