1950's - upper images - Another view downstream (with colourised version) toward the Severn Sea of the derelict timber shoring on the Penarth bank of the Ely Estuary.

1950's - lower images - A view which illustrates the effect of half a century or more of River Ely weather and tides have on stout timbers. Just look at the size of those nails and the cracked and rotting timbers!

The original glass negatives of these photographs are held at the archive of the National Museum of Wales. [Museum item numbers : 1996.96/431 and 432] [629] [20180418]