{"id":97288,"date":"2025-03-28T15:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=97288"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:05:20","slug":"ex-steelworker-who-still-lives-in-house-where-he-was-born-is-adamsdowns-resident-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2025\/03\/28\/ex-steelworker-who-still-lives-in-house-where-he-was-born-is-adamsdowns-resident-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-steelworker who still lives in house where he was born is Adamsdown’s resident historian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Sennett, 77, was born in 1948 and though he has travelled he always came back home <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

JOHN Sennett can\u2019t imagine living anywhere else.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former steelworker, 77, was born and bred in Adamsdown and still lives in the house in which he was born in on Eclipse Street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using his rare perspective of being a genuinely life-long resident of the suburb, Mr Sennett has spent the past 20 years collecting knowledge and stories from the area where he grew up in the ’40s and ’50s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1948, Mr Sennett attended Tredegarville School which he left in 1962. After a short period working in a record shop on Clifton Street (Gibbs Records<\/a>) he followed his father into the then-GKN steelworks – where he stayed for more than 30 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThroughout my 30-plus years working there, I only missed one day of work,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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