Volume Four - An Era of Change, Uncertainty, Depression & War - Dai Woodham and the steam graveyard . . .

I was working on one of the vertical borers next to the main door so was first to clock-off at 4:30. When I came outside, I was met with the entire crew of about twelve standing across and blocking the road. Each had a gleaming knife, axe or machete. I turned tail and ran back through the queue of workers waiting to clock-off, through the works, out of the back door, over the railway sidings and caught the train home to Dinas Powys. When I returned the following day, the ship had sailed but I needed four new tyres on my Ford Popular!

Barry Dock (not in Cardiff but part of the Port of Cardiff) - a lovely postcard view posted during September 1910 - from the Penarth Dock Collection [001]