Exploring Porthcawl Harbour - Looking For Signs Of Its Historic Past

Porthcawl Harbour on the South Wales Coast, we take a closer look at the arbour and its history dating back to the early 1800s.

Today Porthcawl is used as a recreational harbour but if you look carefully you can still see signs from its glory days in the late 1800s.

Some of these features stand out such as the lookout tower, Jennings Building and the long pier but if you look a bit closer you can still see some of the original brickwork, mooring rings and stone bollards.

Throughout the Victorian period, Porthcawl docks were developed and it was a major exporter of coal until it lost out to the neighbouring docks of Port Talbot and Barry. The docks finally closed as an industrial port in the early 1900s.

The inner floating of Porthcawl harbour was filled in and it is now Salt Lake car park.

Features of old Porthcawl harbour

0:00 Low Tide

0:23 Intro

1:05 Harbour History

5:35 Porthcawl Pier And Breakwater

8:06 Porthcawl Lighthouse

8:39 The Custom House

9:24 The Lookout Tower

9:50 The Jennings Building

11:38 The Outer Basin

12:49 The Inner Basin (Salt Lake)


‘Exploring Porthcawl Harbour - Looking For Signs Of Its Historic Past’ - Filmed February 2021 #Porthcawl #VisitWales


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