Volume Six - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Select Aspects - The Quay Wall at the West End of Dock - 1909 . .

Excavation for Foundation

600 cubic yards @ 39/6 = £1,125 0s. 0d.

Excavations for foundation of wall to be carried out under water.

The Contractors must supply all necessary drills and other tools and power for same, barges, cranes and buckets, and do all the necessary timbering, shoring and hoarding.

No blasting will be allowed without written authority of the Engineer, and then only at such times and at such places as he may direct, and with the approved explosives ; the Contractor will have to comply with all rules and regulations as to the handling, conveyance and storage of explosives, and will have to provide a suitable magazine at the site agreed to by the Engineer, and licensed by the Home Office. The Contractor must make good at his own cost any damage done by such blasting.