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Volume Nine - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - Coal Tip Installation and Update Record . . .

This chapter deals with the coal tip history of Penarth Dock and the Ely Tidal Harbour and provides references to witness images and documentation. Some key dates in the development and demise of the dock and harbour are as follows : -

1859xxxxxxxxxxx
Ely Tidal Harbour - tips nos. 1 - 12 - first opened
1865
Main dock - tips nos. 1 - 10 - first opened
Basin - tips nos. 1 & 2 - first opened
1883 Main dock extension tips nos. 11 - 14 open
1889 - 1900 Basin - tip nos. 15 - 18 installed
1904 - 1905 Dock - tip nos. 19 & 20 installed
1913 Peak of coal export
1922 GWR takes ownership from TVR
1936 Dock closed to shipping but open for ship repair
Ely harbour remains open
1939 - 1945 Wartime use as a US base plus continued ship repair
1949 British Transport Commission take control from GWR
1945 - 1962 Dock used for laying up ships and for RN reserve fleet
1962 Dock closed to shipping and ship repair
Harbour continues in use
1963 Ely Tidal Harbour closed to coal loading
Oil wharf remains open until mid-1980's

Many of the images and maps have been duplicated in this chapter to illustrate the coal tip location, date and type etc. Most have featured previously in other chapters. All corrections and further photographic or documented evidence would be extremely welcome. The coal tips were built by a number of different companies. Click on the company name below to open up further info on a new page. . .

PDH&R Co
Penarth Dock, Harbour and Railway Company
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Armstrong & Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  Fielding and Platt Limited of Gloucester
  East Ferry Road Engineering Works Company Limited, Millwall, London
  Tannett Walker & Co. Ltd., Leeds, Yorkshire

 

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