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Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Even more aspects - Penarth Dock and Llandough Fields Reclamation Report : 1989 . . .
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• Prior to opening of the dock. Note gap in wall (foreground) at western end of dock. (Possibly it was intended at the time to construct a dry dock). 82.45 |
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• Twelve coal staithes were constructed in the original dock. Note two levels of railway lines, with upper line used for serving the coal staithes. New cutting of escarpment clearly exposed. 82.26 |
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• Construction work well advanced. Note railways at different levels, to facilitate "gravity returns" of empty coal trucks. Corner of lock just visible on right-hand side. 82.37 |
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• Photograph taken in early 1865, prior to the opening of the dock. Note angle of lower exposed rock face. 82.30 |
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