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Medallions and tins of chocolate were given to every school child in Cardiff to celebrate the opening of the Queen Alexandra Dock in 1907. Ships were getting bigger and so larger and deeper docks were needed. The Queen Alexandra Dock was built so that Cardiff had the capacity to keep attracting ships, and therefore enabled it to remain one of the world's greatest ports. The dock was opened by King Edward VII, who two years earlier had made Cardiff a city, with his wife Queen Alexandra.

Mrs N Evans remembers exactly what she wore for the opening of Queen Alexandra Dock. “I remember (though hazily) all the school children going out in little boats to meet Queen Alexandra at the opening of the dock named after her. We all had dresses made of butter muslin at 6d a yard; white Spanish cord daps at 6d a pair; yards of red, white and blue ribbon as sashes and rosettes in our hair. We thought we were the cat's whiskers!"