Volume One - Into the Victorian Age - Some newspaper reports from the 1890's

Moveable coal tips certainly were the ideal method for rapid shipment, as by this arrangement coal could be loaded into every hatchways of the vessel at the same time, but it had been found in practice that with the very best system of fixed tips, placed at sufficient distances apart, and when proper care was taken in using the anti-breakage boxes as little breakage occurred as in any other arrangement.

In the discussion which followed the reading of the paper, Mr Councilor T. H. Riches said he had been asked to speak from the point of view of the locomotive engineer, but he claimed also in the capacity of a constructor of tips. Mr Allen's paper, as far as he could judge, was up to date except in respect of the tips at Penarth Dock. These tips had recently been improved in design, and, he was bound to say, were an improvement on the system which was obtained at Barry, and which Mr Allen seemed most to advocate." South Wales Star [159] 16th March 1894.

• March 1894 - Accident to a Postman at Penarth- "On Tuesday last, at Penarth Dock, a singular accident befell a postman of Cogan, named Wm. Leaver, aged 20. After delivering some letters aboard a vessel named the Elmhurst, he was returning down the gangway, when his foot slipped and his leg becoming entangled between two of the steps, he fell heavily forward and remained suspended for some time between the quay wall and vessel. Mr R. F. Nell, surgeon, was summoned after Leaver had been conveyed home, and he found that the left leg was broken above the ankle and the bone was badly twisted. The patient is progressing as favourably as can be expected." South Wales Star [159] 30th March 1894.

• May 1894 - Drunk and Disorderly - "Annie Mackay, a married woman of distinctly Scottish descent, and a familiar figure at Penarth Police-court, had another audience with Messrs, J. Duncan and P. Morel at the local court, she had been found by P.C. 30, with her customary offence of being drunk and disorderly, she was fined 5s. or days in gaol." Western Mail [164] May 1894.