Article: WILD WEST WONDERS!; Timetoremember : When cowboys and indians did battle on the Taff.(News)

Byline: Dan O'Neill

NOW just imagine. . . just imagine a block-sized silvery flying saucer landing on the green outside Cardiff's old City Hall.

And from it emerges a whooping mob of Martians, friendly little green men anxious to show us what life on their Red Planet is like.

Sensational, eh?

But something very similar happened in South Wales a century or so ago - and the visitors who came to Cardiff in 1891 were as exotically alien to yesterday's citizens as those Martians would be to today's.

For among them were - wait for it - ...

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