Penarth Dock, South Wales - 150 years - the heritage and legacy  
Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .

Volume Four - An Era of Change, Uncertainty, Depression & War - The Penarth Dock Engineering Company Limited . . .

OS Map of Cardiff Docks showing location of Fownes' Forge - Revised: 1898 to 1899, Published: 1901.

OS Map of Cardiff Docks showing location of Fownes' Forge ; Fownes Forge and Engineering Co., East Moors. - Revised: 1898 to 1899, Published: 1901. [398]

'The whole of the East Dock seemed to be full of small firms and characters hard to forget, firms like Fownes Forge and the manager Mr Elliott.' - South Wales Echo [163] 21 January 2012.

The Fownes Forge & Engineering Company Limited. 1906-07 - Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping, Volume 2 - The Fownes Forge & Engineering Company Limited has works at Cardiff, Newcastle-on-Tyne and St. Bede's Works, on the south side of the river Tyne at Tyne Dock. [760]

Pilgrim Street is reputed to be the oldest road in Newcastle-on-Tyne and there appears to have just been an office at this address with the works at Tyne Docks on the south side of river.

1899 - Beale, Bertram Robert, Managing Director, The Fownes Forge and Engineering Co., 37 Lime Street, London, E.C. [Ultroneus, Tendon Avenue 1874.] - The Institution of Mechanical Engineers -  List of Members &c. - February 1901. [178]

 
1910 - Ruined Industry - The Shield's Forge closed Through German Competition. 1910 - Ruined Industry - The South Shield's Forge closed Through German Competition. - The South Wales Daily Post [632] [361] 6th January 1910.
 
 
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