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

Eleven out of the twelve drops contracted to be erected at the Harbour are in course of completion, and arrangements have been made for the construction of a wharf and approaches thereto, for discharging Ballast and Iron Ore, and lowering stiffening coal into the vessels.

The part of the work now requiring the longest time to complete is the Railway Embankment into which about 150,000 cubic yards of earthwork, to be brought from the site of the intended Dock, remain to be put.

At the end of last month, upwards of 815,000 cubic yards of earthwork and 12,600 cubic yards of Masonry had been completed.

8.9.1858 : Specification for erecting Ballast and Wharfing and forming approaches thereto, together with the Schedule of Prices agreed upon with the Contractors, submitted, approved of, and ordered to have the Seal affixed thereto.

Ordered, that No.1 Coal Drop be set at present constructed. A letter was read from Messrs. Rennie & Coy. stating that they are now in want of joint sleepers and will soon be out of intermediate ones, and asking Directors for a further supply.

Mr. Thos. Powell to be urged to effect a delivery on his contract at once.

Payment, Rennie & Co. - Works - £13,970 - 11 - 0d.

14.9.1858 : Resolved, that Mr. Hawkshaw be authorised to offer Messrs. Rennie & Coy. the following prices for the construction of the Dock and Railways thereto.

The prices to include all coffer-dams and to cover all contingencies, also to include maintenance for 12 months after water in and works completed.

Earthwork Masonry Concrete Piling Pitching

10d 12/- 6/- 3/3 2/9

per yard per yard per yard per ft. per yard