Beach & Pier Penarth

The original prints of these three photographs, collected by H.T.Sutters early in the 20th Century, were donated to the Glamorgan Archives.
Piers in the Bristol Channel area had frequent visits from steamers that plied, for business and pleasure, between the English and Welsh sides. Clevedon and Birnbeck Piers on the English side and Barry and Penarth on the Welsh, were among the busiest. Services lasted into the 1960s at least.