Volume Four - An Era of Change, Uncertainty, Depression & War - Penarth Dock closure in 1936 . . .

I wonder how many members were sitting at 11:30 p.m. to hear Captain Arthur Evans address the house on the closure of the docks. And the manner in which the GWR, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer ignored him seems to be very much in common with proceedings today in the house.

The report of the 25th April 1936 from the The Western Daily News [022].

The GWR notice at the dock stated:- 'Notice is hereby given that on Monday 6th July 1936, and until further notice, vessels will not be admitted into Penarth Dock for the purpose of loading or discharging, nor will any traffic be dealt with in that dock.'

The last commercial sailing from the dock is reported to have occurred two days earlier on the 4th July 1936; the ship named the “Amiens” sailed, appropriately, with a cargo of coal bound for Rochefort on the French coast.