The story of coal

It’s been a nice dry day today so we went for a walk around Cardiff Bay. We walked along the barrage and I took loads of photos as there’s lots to see. I’ve decided to blip this one of a statue dedicated to the importance of coal to the commercial development of Cardiff and its docks. At it’s height in 1913, 11 million tonnes of coal was being exported through Cardiff and the tonnage of cargo handled by the port outstriped that of London or Liverpool. Following an initial boom after the first world war, the export of coal gradually declined because of a flood of cheap German coal and its progressive replacement by oil. The last export of coal was in 1964.
The extra is of another statue, this one dedicated to Scott of the Antarctic who sailed from Cardiff in the Terra Nova on 15th June 1910 on his last and fateful expedition.