Windsor Road, Penarth - 'Situated on the A4160 road about 6 miles from Cardiff is the Bristol Channel resort of Penarth. The town has fine docks, beaches and pier from which pleasure steamers run in the season.' This postcard was published by Baxter & Crabtree Ltd., of Prestatyn - I don't think I'll be buying anymore from them! These were the days when you could park your British made car most places in Windsor Road, whilst you shopped in Woolworth's, without a parking warden threatening you. Ford Zephyrs, Morris Minor Countryman, a Austin Minor with a split windscreen that let in the rain, and a Ford Popular with a hole in the floor, all rusting away before your very eyes - they were the days of great motoring adventures when it was all fun, fun, fun! There was just one slight downside, however, that if you hit a brick wall at speed you went straight through the windscreen because seatbelts were not yet fitted to cars! Another from the Penarth Dock Collection. [001]

Penarth - Glamorgan - Another fine day at Penarth Esplanade probably from the late 1970's or 1980's. The heritage buildings of the Yacht Club, Beachcliff and the Pier Pavilion of the 1930 Art Deco style are somewhat marred by the falsehood that is the red brick facade of a block of flats beyond. Why, oh why, despoil our wonderful heritage by permitting such uninspiring and inappropriate buildings to mar our Victorian and Edwardian Esplanade? [001]

The publishers John Hinde of Ireland state on the rear of the postcard:- 'Just south of Cardiff where the rivers Taff and Ely enter the sea, Penarth was created by wealthy coal owners who built their spacious houses with views overlooking the Bristol Channel and across to Flat Holm and Steep Holm. It is a popular resort for sailing, water skiing, fishing and cliff walks.'

Penarth Esplanade - This is by far the most detested postcard in the entire Penarth Dock Collection. I bought it when I was feeling down just to remind how low the Penarth Council Planning Department sank in their wholesale destruction of our heritage Esplanade. An unfortunate piece of social history from the Penarth Dock Collection. [001]

The postcard was posted in August 1988 to an address is Stockport - 'Doreen states that 'Bob has been taking us to quite a few places in the car' - probably Doreen wanted to get as far away as possible from the concrete eyesores bestowed upon Penarth by its public servants! Back in Stockport they have a massive viaduct which remains one of the most impressive and largest brick built railway structures in the UK - they only used 11 million bricks and 11,300 cubic metres of stone in building it back in 1840! It is still there, nearly two centuries later, carrying trains into Stockport and Manchester. Today it spans the M60 whereas this concrete car park disaster has been demolished with a lifespan commencing in 1969 until 2001, just over 30 years! Oh! - and the public purse remains somewhat depleted!

'Multi-storey Car Park, Sea Front, Penarth. Photograph shows the well-lit Car Park at night.' - I found the culprits responsible for building the above monstrosity of a car park on the Penarth beachside in the 'Penarth Guide' published 1969, wherein the perpetrators seem proud to advertise their work. [536]