'View from Parade, Penarth' - I can't recall the Windsor Gardens being referred to the parade before and I can't find any reference to it either. Has anyone any explanation to offer please? This Edwardian era postcard is from my Penarth Dock Collection. At the pier I believe is the newly launched (May 1907) Barry Railway Steamer 'Barry' of the Red Funnel Fleet. On the reverse side a hand written message to an address in Portland Square, Plymouth states:

'Dear L. - Am just off to see that young man's people at Cogan' Oh dear - it sounds as if the lady doesn't quite approve of the young man! It was posted from Penarth at 9:10 p.m. on the 17th of September 1907 which dates the Valentine's postcard to that period. [000] [001]

Another 'Parade' at Penarth as the humorous postcard implies. It dates from approximately the same era as the upper image and appears in the excellent book by Barry Thomas, 'Penarth - The Garden by the Sea' - 'So pack your trunk and come to Penarth' [106]