Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Mercantile Marine Offices - An article from the Nautical Magazine for 1876. . . .

Whilst the building was complete c.1866, the Mercantile Marine Offices at Penarth Dock were probably only first in use c. 1877. The Penarth Dock was closed to shipping during 1936 and the last reference to personnel I can find was published within the Edinburgh Gazette [609] of August 1922 when Mr. William Edward Vowles was listed as an Inspector at the Mercantile Marine Offices, Penarth.

During a visit to Penarth in March 2023, I was rather upset to find that the Grade II Listed Building had continued to remain unused and further deteriorate whilst the Welsh Assembly looks on over the bay! [002]