Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
Cardiff wouldn't be the major port it was and is and would just be a small place if it wasn't for the feeder canal

By taking excess water off the taff and directing it into the docks it meant that the docks that built the city would be able to operate 24 hours a day ......and the industry that relied on the docks knew the water would never get too low and dry out ......so cardiff had an advantage over many other British ports

It's an incredible part of the history of Cardiff and in years to come a quarter of the city centre will be seeing the canal
If you think many people are interested in either Cardiff’s history as a coal port or the dock feeder’s role in Cardiff’s history then you are delusional. Swansea, Plymouth, Weymouth, Southampton, Portsmouth, Folkestone, Dover, Tilbury, Gravesend, Harwich, Felixstowe, Grimsby, Hull, Redcar, Teesport, Sunderland, Port of Tyne, Leith, Dundee, Aberdeen, greater Glasgow’s various ports, Silloth, Barrow, Heysham, Liverpool and Bristol were all far less reliant on tides than Cardiff was/is. The Dock Feeder didn’t give Cardiff an advantage at all, it merely partially compensated for the fact that ships could only sail into and out of Cardiff during high tides. None of the ports I’ve listed were handicapped to the extent Cardiff was by the tides.

God this is almost as boring as the Dock Feeder.