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

16.12.1857 : A letter was read from Messrs. Rennie & Co. requesting the payment of 2d per yard additional on the earthwork, which sum is alleged to be due, in the terms of the contract, on account of the excavation being made on the Penarth side of the Ely River and the material for the embankment brought across the temporary bridge.

Ordered, that this matter stand over to the next meeting which Mr. Hawkshaw is expected to attend. Messrs. Rennie & Co. to be informed.

5.1.1858 : Payment of the additional 2d per yard ordered to be made in the next certificate.

Certificate, Rennie & Co. £6,165 - 14 - 7d.

26.2.1858 : "The works relating to the harbour and railway are proceeding upon the whole to the satisfaction of your Directors, and they see no reason why the same may not be open for traffic in the ensuing autumn."

In the formation of the embankment upon the east side of the River Ely, considerable quantities of earth are being taken from the west side, the site of the Company's intended Dock, and your Directors have instructed the Engineers to prepare plans of the Dock for their consideration.

16.3.1858 : The plans for the Company's undertaking as authorised by the Act of 1857 were laid on the table and considered.

The plans were so far approved that the Engineers were desired to confine the Contractors to the parts required to be excavated for the purpose of the Dock and Railway as laid down in the plan submitted.