Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - The Shipping World Article of June 1886 . . .

The following figures, showing the valuation of property for poor-rate purposes, will at once show the great progress made by Penarth during the last eighteen years : -

When we come to investigate the causes of this marvelous growth, which has transformed Penarth from a mere village into a prosperous town and favourite watering-place, which has changed its cliffs into beautiful gardens around handsome houses, we find the secret of all its progress and prosperity to lie in its harbour and dock.