Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Chains at Penarth Dock - Macey, Mules and Wallace Family History . . .

William lost his wife at this time. He was 60 years old.

On Sunday 2nd June, William writes – ‘Go to our new Chapel for the first time this morning. Me, May and Emily, Renie & Doots. I stop home at night. May, Fanny & Arthur go’. The date is commensurate with the opening of Albert Road Methodist Church.

A painting depicting the opening of the dock in July, with the Royal Yacht and the King and Queen on a podium. [455]

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. William describes the day as follows:–