"Stop Seamen and take a draught, there be danger here both fore and aft,
and learn to shun that wicked craft who looks at yonder door.
The compass that is stationed here will from danger keep you clear.
And show you how to steer, on this dreadful shore,
Heed not the the music or the sport, here in the alley or the court.
They'll both entice you to a port, beset with rock and reef, and ere from then you cannot return,
They'll overhaul the cash you earn, using you from stem to stern and bring you all to grief"

This great poem was on a plaque fixed to the fountain warning sailors of the perils of drink and loose women in some of the many hundreds of pubs and drinking dens that once surrounded Cardiff Docks

The railings here still exist. I love that Ford Capri.

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The bricked up end of the tunnel under the River Ely, as seen from the Cardiff End.

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Dock labourers congregate at the dock entrance near the bottom of Bute St

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Looking out towards Penarth from next to the entrance to the Roath Dock.

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A view of the main dock at Penarth under construction. In the back ground is the River Ely, and a sailing ship can be seen loading coal at one of the Coal tips on the river. These were still in use up until 1966 long after the docks at Penarth closed. The docks themselves opened 1865.

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