Volume One - Into the Victorian Age - Some newspaper reports from the 1870's

The sad event prevented her from proceeding on her journey, and with affectionate zeal she attended at the side of her husband until his death. Much sympathy is felt for Mrs Muir in her great affliction. The chief officer of the Atlanta, Mr Whitworth, was not married, but he has a mother, it is believed living in Manchester. It may be stated that much indignation has been expressed by the seafaring people at Penarth at the manner in which the body of Mr Whitworth has been treated. After death the body was taken to the mortuary, and it remained there until Wednesday morning without any preparation being made in any way for burial. The body was about to be buried while in the state already described, when American mates at the Penarth Docks interfered, and succeeded in getting the burial postponed in order that they might provide a respectable funeral. Cardiff Times [019] 24th June 1876.

The inquest was held at the Penarth police-station by Mr Grover, the deputy coroner and after a Board of Trade enquiry was convened to examine the circumstances of the explosion.

• August 1877 - Penarth Extension Railway- "This line of railway is rapidly approaching completion, and will, unless unforeseen accidents occur, be opened for passenger traffic between Cardiff and Penarth on the 1st December. It was originally proposed to open that portion of the railway for this purpose between Cardiff and Cogan in September, but as the line of railway to be constructed was only a mile and a quarter long, the opening of a portion was deferred until the completion of the whole. That part of the railway from the Penarth Dock line near the Cardiff Waterworks reservoir to Cogan is formed, the rails laid down, and the railway station there erected. The embankment then proceeds to an archway of considerable height ['A'] over the road leading to the Dock from Cogan, and crosses the turnpike road from Cogan to Penarth with an iron girder bridge of 40 feet span ['B'], a little above Cogan Pill.