Volume Two - The Era of Optimism, Investment & Development - Some reports

Said he: “Is that the plan of the house?” We assured him it was.
“When are you going to build it?” he asked.
“When we get the money” was our reply.
“Is this a fairy tale?” demanded the child.
“Not arf” said we.
“Are you going to have it soon?” then came out on the frosty atmosphere.
“Directly.” was our reply.
“Shall you have it as soon as Penarth will have their pontoon?”
And we chased the boy away. We had no objection to his styling our house yarn a fairy tale; but the new pontoon – well that was different. Yes?”

	A cartoon which appeared in The Maritime Review [059] of the 26th July 1907 taking a swipe at the Welsh and the Coal Boom.

1906 - Sully's Robinson Crusoe - Arrested in London - Samuel George Wacco, a native of Pondicherry, India, and a man of colour, has been charged at Woolwich with begging. Asked to give an account of himself, Wacco told the police that he had lived at Sunnyshore, Sully, and at "Beasley's No. 9 Lodge, the Docks, Penarth, Wales." He was remanded for inquiries.

Wacco's description of his residences in Penarth and Sully stamp him a humorist. For some time he slept nightly in the trimmer's lodge alongside Penarth Dock, from which he was regularly hunted by police, who brought him before the magistrates. Wacco then devised a plan whereby he might be free from the attentions of the police, and on a seashore in Sully, in a cosy ravine running between huge boulders of rock, above the high water mark, he erected a covering to keep out the rain. Here he remained for some months. In the day time Wacco visited the houses in the locality begging whatever food he could get, and when the police eventually routed him from his resting place it was found that he had a plentiful supply of food stored. "Sunnyshore" is an appropriate name for the beautiful seashore near Sully but "Beasley's No. 9 Lodge" is a trifle hilarious." Cardiff Times [019] 2nd June 1906.