Volume Six - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Select Aspects - Growth and development at Cogan . .

1902 - 'An attractive branch reading room at Cogan was opened to the public on Nov.1, 1902.' - The Library Journal (US) [1057] [499] 1903.

	In 1909 fourteen acres of land had been negotiated for use as playing fields by the Council. Lord Windsor donated the land for recreational use and the Cogan playing fields were opened “for ever” on the 16th April 1911.
	1920 - OS Map of Cogan – The pontoon and the engineering works is now indicated. The “Duck Pond” is detailed in the 1920 map and the other brick ponds have been filled-in. However, flooding is still a problem. The “Penarth Times” [101] reporting late in 1926 that Bridge Street, adjacent to the new Penarth brickworks, that the marl pit was overflowing and referred to the area as the “Land of Lakes”.  Also included is a photograph of a wedding.

In the 1915 Western Mail Cardiff Directory [138] there are still only seven residences in Cogan Row listed “as from Cawnpore Road”. Residents included an engine driver, a coal haulier, a boilermaker and a coal tipper. Cawnpore Road “from Pill Street” now has twelve houses and includes as its residents a fitter, a school teacher and a platelayer. At the other end of Pill Street in Dock Street we have a donkeyman listed (one who attended marine boilers) a topman, a dock hobbler and a dredgerman. Meanwhile near the centre of Penarth in Bromfield Place, where Judith now lives, Mr Henry Mathews the cab driver resides.