Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Report upon Penarth Dock - 1984 . . .

In conjunction with the alterations to the north wall the pitched slope at the west end of the main dock was altered to allow workshops and offices to be built adjoining the site of the dry-dock.

The pitched slope was rendered vertical to form the base of the buildings and exactly how this was done is unclear. (see the chapter The Quay Wall at the West End of the Dock - 1909 for some of the answers!) Either the pitched slope was dismantled and replaced with a vertical wall or more likely it was filled and the bottom of the vertical wall made to correspond to the toe of the pitched slope. Some details of these alterations are shown in figure 11.

	Figure 11a - Site of the Penarth floating dry-dock.
	Figure 11b - Cross-section through one of the slots containing the shore connections for the floating dry-dock.

4.0 - Lock and Sea Entrance

This section is intended to deal with the sluicing arrangements and other details of both the lock and sea entrance at Penarth Dock.

There are many general features which are common to both the lock and sea entrance and these will be discussed first prior to examination of more specific details.