Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Defence of the Realm - Penarth Head Fort and Coastal Battery . . .

1898 - Defences of the Bristol Channel - The signage on Lavernock Point states 'Notice - These Guns Are For Ornament Only.' The gentlemen holds papers from the 'War Office.' and the newspaper states 'Cardiff Steam Coal for the Navy.' also the guns on the island of 'Steep Holm.' - Evening Express [135] [361] 3rd March 1898.

DAME CARDIFF : I should be much obliged if you would protect me with something better than these old pop-guns ; I don't feel at all safe.