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

27.6.1864 : The cost of keeping horses at the Dock, inclusive of food, housekeeper's wages, saddlery, veterinary expenses and taxes, was, per horse per week, for :

	Month ending	14th April	£1 - 0 - 2½d.
	"	12th May	£1 - 0 - 7d.
	"	9th June	£1 - 0 - 4d.

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

11.7.1864 : Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £2,900.

25.7.1864 : Tenders for CI (cast iron) covers for the Hydraulic Machine Pits from Armstrong & Coy. at £9 - 5 - 0d. per ton. Wt. about 45 ton.

30.8.1864 : Resolved, that Mr. Dobson proceed to Cochran & Coy's Works at Dudley and offer them £7,000 on a/c if they will put more men on the fabrication of the Dock Gates.

5.9.1864 : Cochran & Co. have promised to put 5 or 6 more sets of riveters on the work.

Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £1,800.

19.9.1864 : Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £1,800.
                         "        : Hemingway & Co. : Wagon Hire : £350.

3.10.1864 : Mr. Dobson encloses correspondence with Smith & Knight on the subject of the sale of materials &c. from the Dock Works.

After all the promises made, Cochran's progress with the Dock Gates most unsatisfactory.

Payment : B. Bacon : Dock Works : £1,500.