Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - Penarth Harbour, Dock & Railway Company . . .

8.9.1856 : Resolved, that the Engineers be requested to prepare the necessary plans for the immediate prosecution of the works. Committee of Works to consist of Mr. Powell, Mr. John Batchelor, Mr. Cartwright and Mr. Nixon.

20.9.1856 : Resolved, that Mr. Dobson be instructed to sink another trial pit on the Ely side of the cutting, on a piece of land belonging to the Taff Vale Railway Company, Mr. Bushell having given his consent to sink same.

24.10.1856 : The Engineers reported that in a few days the plans and specifications would be ready and recommended that advertisements be inserted in The Times, Railway Times, Herepath's Journal, Railway Record, and the local papers for tenders for the construction of the works : -

"To Contractors : -

Ely Tidal Harbour & Railway Company.

The Directors of the above Company will meet at the Cardiff Arms Hotel, Cardiff, on Monday the first day of December next at half past ten o'clock in the forenoon to receive tenders for the construction of their works.

Plans, sections, and specifications will be open to inspection on or after Friday the fourteenth day of November at Mr. Hawkshaw's office at 33 Great George St., Westminster, where printed forms of tender to be addressed to the undersigned may be obtained.

No tender will be received in any other form nor after eleven o'clock on the morning of the meeting.

Cardiff

24th October 1856

Benjn. Mathews, Solicitor.