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

10.8.1863 : Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £3,800.

24.8.1863 : In consequence of some doubt being expressed that Messrs. Cochran & Co. would not deliver the gates in time to have them fixed by the period that the rest of the works are completed, the Secretary was directed to write them that the Company would hold them responsible for any loss which they may sustain from the Gates not being delivered within the time named in the Contract.

Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £2,800.

7.9.1863 : Certificate No. 12 of work done at the Dock for 2 months ending 31st July 1863, £15,156 - 19 - 7½d.

Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £3,300.

21.9.1863 : Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £2,900.

5.10.1863 : A comparative view of the cost of the Dock Works as compared with the Certificates to 31st July 1863 showed that the cost was about 37% in excess of the work at the contract prices.

Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £3,300.

19.10.1863 : The Secretary was desired to express the dissatisfaction of the Board with the statement in a letter from Cochran & Co., and to give notice that, as the completion of the works by 30th June next entirely depends on the prompt delivery and fixing of the gates, the Company will hold them responsible for any loss arising from non-delivery and fixing of the gates in accordance with their Contract.