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

9.2.1863 : Resolved, that Messrs. Cochran's (ed. of the Woodside Iron Works near Dudley in the Black Country) Tender for Dock Gates be accepted. All the Iron to be "known as the Best Staffordshire".

Payment : Mr. Bacon : Dock Works : £2,500.
Payment : Hemingway & Co. : Wagon Hire : £221 - 13 - 4d. : Sundries : £216 - 2- 3d.

23.2.1863 : Mr. Dobson having reported that the feeders of water in the Works are increasing, he was authorised, if he considers it necessary, to order a new pumping engine from Leigh of Manchester for £335. (ed. probably J. & W. Leigh of the Ellesmere Iron Foundry, Patricroft, Manchester).

15.6.1863 : Tender of Messrs. Hennet Spink & Else (ed. of the Bridgewater Ironworks, Bridgewater) (£435) accepted for ironwork of a bridge at Cogan Pill.

29.6.1863 : Hennet Spink & Else decline the bridge contract.

Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £3,100.

30.7.1863 : Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £3,500.

27.7.1863 : Measurement (No. 11) of work done at the Dock for 2 months ending 31st May, £15,251 - 12 - 4d.

Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £3,700.