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

One of the advertisements authorised by the Board and placed within the local and National press and periodicals. - The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette [156] [361] 8th November 1856

3.11.1856 : Resolved, that Mr. Dobson proceed with the necessary surveys for a branch line on the west side of the River Ely and for Docks.

1.12.1856 : The following tenders were received : -
	Dock Excavation	Without Dock Excavation
Thomas Jackson	£ 102,930	£ 95,356
Pickering & Co.	70,256	70,256
James Rennie	92,529	88,380
Joseph Fairbank	101,613	89,322
Robert Sharp & Sons	106,100	96,500
Thos. & W. Tredwell	91,606	81,220
Thos. Hutchins	80,911	77,170
William Ritson [Kitson?]	108,993	96,145