Volume One - Into the Victorian Age - The construction of the dock . . .

	1865 - The view from the sea lock westwards, through the basin and into the main dock just prior to completion of the works.
	A set of lock gates under installation in 1865. The lock gates provide a perspective on the size of the works. The workers are dwarfed by the gates of which there were four sets., each being hydraulically operated. The cost of construction of the docks to date was in excess of £750,000.
	1865 - A glimpse at the modern age with the docks complete and filling with water; I wonder what he was contemplating?

Reports maintained by the coastguard at Penarth, Mr. Bryant, recorded that during January 1864 he noted 2,284 vessels anchored off Penarth and during February 2,035. The coastguard station was situated on Penarth Headland which, at 250 feet above sea level, would have provided a good lookout location. Penarth Head is the highest headland vantage point of the entire Bristol Channel and Severn Sea.

"Sale of Twelve Valuable Cart Horses - Messrs. Watkins & Stephenson are instructed to sell by auction, at Holland's Repository. Working-street, Cardiff, on Saturday, August 6th, 1864, at two for three o'clock precisely. Twelve very useful and powerful cart horses, the property of Penarth Harbour and Railway Company, who have no further use for them, in consequence of the Dock being nearly completed." Bristol; Mercury [194] 20th July 1864.