Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Penarth Dock Extension Works - 'Engineering' articles on progress . . .

The whole of the work connected withy the extension is in the hands of Mr. T. A. Walker, the contractor for the Severn Tunnel works, and it is expected to be completed in about a month time. - Engineering [627] [499] 18th April 1884.

February 1885 - Penarth Harbour, Dock, and Railway - The engineer's report on the dock extension works is as follows : "33 Great George-street, Westminster, S.W., January 31, 1885. Gentlemen, - The whole of the works are now completed, with the exception of some excavation in the docks, below the water level, from whence about 11,000 cubic yards of marl have still to be removed. This operation will take three months, if the present rate of progress in dredging can be maintained. Yours faithfully (signed), J. Clarke Hawkshaw (for John Hawkshaw)." - Engineering [627] [499] 20th February 1885.