Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage and legacy

Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Art and Artists of the Penarth Dock area . . .

Opening of Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff - 1907 - A painting by Richard Short (1841 - 1919) depicting the opening of the dock in July 1907, featuring the Royal Yacht and with the King and Queen on a podium. 'On Saturday July 13th King Edward Vll and Queen Alexandra came to Cardiff to open a new Alexandra Dock. They arrived in the Royal Yacht ‘Victoria and Albert III’. After cutting the ribbon at the dockside they drove through the crowded streets in an open carriage'. [455]