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

The various tenders were considered by the Directors seriatim and Mr. Rennie having offered to execute the works at £91,000 if excavations taken from soite [sic. ? site] for Dock, or at £81,000 if excavation not required to be so taken.

Resolved that his Tender be accepted, and Mr. Rennie was called in and informed thereof.

10.12.1856 : Resolved that application be made to Parliament in the next session to make railways connecting the S.W. side of the River Ely with the Company's property on the East side. Also for powers to construct a wet dock on the S.W. side of the said river.

27.2.1857 : 'The works are now in progress and are engaged to be completed by the 30th June 1858'.

The Bill for powers to construct railways and dock accommodation on the west side of the River Ely has been read a second time in the House of Commons.

An advertisement placed within the local press to inform of a Special General Meeting at the Company's Offices, Crockherbtown, Cardiff. - The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette [156] [361] 18th June 1857