At the end of the hostilities, under the Treaty of Paris, the allies became responsible for about four thousand of these guns from the Russian Naval Arsenal at Sevastopol and Britain's share amounted to 1,165, which were offered to interested communities as a reward for their contribution to a Patriotic Fund. Most of these canons were made of cast iron (some of bronze) and were generally of large calibre, 24, 30 and 36 pounders, which were originally intended for the use of the Russian Navy, having been manufactured in the late 18th century.

Over at Cardiff Docks a local fisherman was killed when unloading a Crimean cannon from a vessel's hold when the ropes broke!

Our pair of guns from Windsor Gardens, together with the WWI tank, were disposed of during 1937 and sold for £45!

Capt. Walter Murray Pengelly, late of H. M. Indian Navy, and for many years past the respected dockmaster at Penarth, is a familiar figure in Cardiff and district, but it is not generally known that he took an active part in the stirring events of the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. - South Wales Daily News [325] [361] 23rd November 1893.

Alexandra Park, Penarth - Canons - Two postcard views of the two cannon display which were used at the Bombardment of Alexandria, Egypt, during July 1882.

The upper image has been duplicated from a previous Chapter and shows the right hand canon and is another postcard from the Penarth Dock Collection. [001]

The lower image has been duplicated from the Chapter entitled 'The Work of Martin J. Ridley - Photographer' - cannons in Alexandra Park, Penarth pointing out to sea c.1905. A digital record from the archive of the National Library of Wales of the work of Martin J. Ridley, photographer during the years 1900 to 1910. The archive record is a black and white, glass dry-plate negative. [439] [Preferred citation : Ridley 1563]