Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - Picturesque Penarth —an Ideal Seaside Residential Centre - 1907.

The Esplanade at Penarth was laid out at the expense of the Earl of Plymouth, and few places of its size possess more numerous or well-appointed public institutions. Penarth is singularly rich both in churches and schools ; Mr. Andrew Carnegie gave it a Free Library and Reading Room, built on a site of which Lord Plymouth was the donor ; the splendid Public Baths cost no less than £8,000, and the town can also boast of Clubs devoted to Yachting, Cricket, Lawn Tennis and Golf.

The excellent links of the Glamorgan Golf Clubs at Lower Penarth are close to the Taff Vale Railway Station. The course covers 18 holes, and the bogey is 81. A ladies' section plays over the same course. The pavilion is both roomy and handsome, the interests of the fair sex being specially considered in the arrangements. The total membership of the Club, of which the Earl of Plymouth is President, is 547, and a representative of it has held the championship seven times out of twelve. All information as to the conditions under which visitors may join the Club can be readily obtained on application to the Hon. Sec, Mr. K. R. Marley, Penarth. Hotel and lodging accommodation at Penarth is both good and abundant. Forty years ago there were barely 200 houses at Penarth, and most of these were cottages. To-day Penarth has become not only Cardiff's favourite and most fashionable seaside residential centre, but the place from which nearly every point of interest on the littoral of Severn Sea may be most conveniently and expeditiously visited both by land and sea.