Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Random Rants, Notes and Articles No.2 . . .

1863 - Miraculous Escape of a Child - A little girl, seven years old, daughter of one of the engineers on board a steam tug, fell over the highest part of Penarth Cliff, on Friday evening last. The child, with its mother close by, rolled down gently, and when picked up, beyond being very much bruised and cut about the face, it was not otherwise injured. It is now doing exceeding well. Dr. Granger was in immediate attendance, and at once ordered the little sufferer to be laid in a bed at the Penarth hotel, her removal to Cardiff that night not being considered safe. The escape is attributed to the crinoline of the child keeping her from rolling too rapidly to the bottom of the cliff. - The Cardiff Times [019] [361] 17th July 1863.

1895 - " Hail, divinest Melancholy!” Decidedly the town of Penarth must adopt this Miltonian line as its motto. At a meeting of the Public Works Committee of the District Council, a letter was read in which a citizen complained bitterly of the frivolous name given to the street wherein he had his habitation. Gay Street! How too shocking! “The whole neighbourhood objected to it,” and not even the assurance that the thoroughfare had merely been thus designated out of compliment to a noble lady of the locality, whose Christian name was " Gay '', served to allay the righteous indignation. Away with the demoralizing title and the base insinuation borne with it! It was proposed that the street - being in the vicinity of All Saints - be known for the future as " Amen Corner, " a name suitable to the unswerving sobriety and solemnity of the city. The proposal was put to the vote and carried with only a couple of dissentients. It is possible that there are even two Penarthians in favour of gaiety? - Punch [1203] [499] 14th September 1895.