Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage and legacy


	Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .

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

That concludes the series of photographs of the construction of the Penarth Dock in the period c.1863 - 1865 taken and published by Mr. Joseph Collings of Bute Road, Cardiff.
	J. Collings, Crystal Palace, Photographic Portrait Rooms, No. 47, Bute Street, Cardiff. (The largest and most convenient in South Wales.)

	The French Invasion of Fishguard in 1797 and an interesting link to Mr. Josef Collings, Photographer!

1858 - Water Bills - PENARTH WATER-WORKS - Incorporation of company to supply water to vessels frequenting the Penarth harbour and docks, and for domestic and other purposes in parishes adjacent thereto ; arrangement with Penarth Harbour, Dock, and Railway Company. - The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply, & Sanitary Improvement - Vol. 7 - [1099] [499] 7th December 1858.

1877 - Minutes of Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers - Mr. H. M. Brunel - 'With the wrought-iron gates generally used he did not think that a strain of 6 or 8 tons would twist the gates if applied at any point. He remembered that, when he was a pupil of Sir John Hawkshaw, one of the gates at Penarth had been built a little crooked, and an effort was made by the contractor to straighten it with hydraulic presses exerting a force of 70 tons applied at one corner of the gate, but the gate did not yield in the least. He thought the plan described by Sir John Hawkshaw was the best . . . [1306]

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