Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - A History of Penarth Dock by Roy Thorne . . .

My special thanks are extended to Cyril Dart and his wife for giving me the benefit of his unrivalled knowledge of Cardiff and for Betty's information regarding the Hemingway Family.

To I. W. Prothero of Barry, who guided and corrected me with his detailed knowledge of the Acts relating to the dock and railways of South Wales, my grateful thanks are offered.

The Clerk of the Records, House of Lords, is thanked for his extreme courtesy and permission to use extracts from the Merthyr and Cardiff Railway Bill, 1836, and the Taff Vale Railway Bill, 1837.

My appreciative thanks are again offered to Mrs E. Delaney and the staff of Penarth Public Library who are ever helpful.

The Chief Librarian, University of Bristol, kindly allowed me to use Brunel’s letter of October 1836 to the Taff Vale Railway Company’s Directors and also the map of his proposed dock.

Permission to use extracts from the Minutes of ’’Penarth Dock and Railway Company (1856 - 1865)” was readily given by the Chief Officer of the Public Record Office, Richmond, Surrey. My thanks to the National Museum of Wales for allowing me to use some of their Penarth Docks photographs and also the Ordnance Survey for the use of the maps of Penarth 1885 and 1924.

Mr Malcolm Cook, the Humanities Adviser for South Glamorgan Education Authority, has been a great stimulant and encouragement in giving me the benefit of his knowledge and he has been truly an adviser.

To Miss Sandra Hoskins who typed the original manuscript and corrected my mistakes I give my appreciative thanks.

Finally , my wife Mary must be thanked for her sustained support and encouragement.