◊ A Winter's Scene - A postcard to Miss S. Tucker of Walter Road, Swansea posted at Cardiff on 24th December 1907 with the following message :

May your course through life be true,
Your spreading sail
Catch fortune's gale,
And the stormy days be few.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas.

Another of the fine postcard and photographic records of Moments Captured in Time from the Penarth Dock Collection. [001] [20180919]

◊ Steamships Westonia and Gwalia, Cardiff - A busy scene at the pier head, Cardiff showing these paddle steamers in the livery of the Barry Railway Company which assists greatly in dating the photograph. These were two of four vessels operated by the company during the period 1905 - 1909. 'Gwalia' was later sold to P & A Campbell in 1922 where upon she was renamed 'Lady Moyra'. 'Westonia' passed out of the Barry Railway Company's ownership to the Bristol Channel Passenger Boats Ltd., Cardiff for the two seasons following. She was sold to P. & A. Campbell in 1911 following protracted disputes, she was rebuilt with only one funnel and upgraded by Campbell's and renamed 'Tintern'. She only remained in service with them until 1913 being sold to Portuguese owners and she met her fate at the breaker's yard c.1924. Another of the fine postcard and photographic records of Moments Captured in Time from the Penarth Dock Collection. [001] [20180919]

◊ s.s. Glamorgan - A vessel owned and registered at Cardiff by Jenkins Bros. She was built in 1906 at the yard of Craig, Taylor & Company Ltd of Stockton on Tees. Renamed 'River Wye' in 1920 she met her fate as a wreck in November 1923. The original painting is accredited to James Bell and is featured on this postcard published by Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru. [120] Another of the fine postcard and photographic records of Moments Captured in Time from the Penarth Dock Collection. [001] [20180919]