Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Storms and their effects . . .

On Wednesday morning, at three o'clock, the wind shifted to W.N.W., still blowing very hard, and as soon as daylight appeared it was perceived from the pier head (Cardiff) that sad havoc had occurred among the shipping and the pilot crafts. Just after it was high water, a sudden rise of the tide took place, at least fourteen inches, and the waves breaking over the lock gates of the Bute East Dock, carried away the off gangway, and did other damage, whilst the stone and piling of the embankment by the gridiron were rooted up.' The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette [156] [361] 19th October 1850.

A section of an OS map (first series) published in 1833 showing the location of Sully Island Swanbridge and 'Lavernock Point'; all in close proximity to the hamlet of Penarth. [373]