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

6.10.1862 : The Board to offer Rennie & Co. £150 for "any assumed interest they may possess" in the tenements at Cogan Pill.

Payment : Mr. Bacon : Dock Works : £2,700.

13.10.1862 : Resolved, that a meeting of the Joint (Taff Vale & Penarth) Committee with the engineers take place in London on the 15th Inst. to discuss the Dock Works and proposed extensions of the Dock.

3.11.1862 : Payment : Mr. Bacon : Dock Works : £2,700.

Rennie & Co. to accept £150 for the houses erected by them at Cogan Pill.

Payment : Mr. Bacon : Dock Works : £2,200.

17.11.1862 : Engineers to report : -

Is the Dock to be lengthened?
If not, how is it to finished at the upper end?
Is it to be left so it may at any time be lengthened?
Or, so that Coal Drops may be run out from it into the Dock, as suggested by Mr. Hawkshaw?

29.12.1862 : Read letter from Mr. Hawkshaw dated Jan. 24th with plans for Iron Gates for the Dock, with Cochran & Coy's tender for providing and erecting same.

Payment : Mr. Bacon : Dock Works : £3,800.