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The house in Cathay Street, purchased for use as a shelter, proving unsuitable, I was
instructed to consider whether it was not possible to provide accommodation in connection
with some of the buildings to be erected at the wharf. I submitted two schemes, and it
was decided to erect the shelter in the form of cubicles over the cart shed, to be erected
along the Rotherhithe Street frontage. As at this period no decision was arrived at as
regards the form of Destructor, I prepared the contract drawings, specification and
quantities for the remainder of the buildings, except the stables, consisting of house, office,
store, blacksmith and wheelwright's shop, steam roller shed and cart shed, with shelter
over. The tender of Messrs. H. Knight & Son, of Tottenham, N.W., amounting to £2,226 7s.
was accepted on the 1st September, the work commenced on the 20th September, and is
now nearly completed.
A self-contained weighbridge of 10 tons capacity, with patent steelyard, without loose
weights has been fixed by Messrs. Pooley & Son, Limited, immediately in front of the
office window at a cost of £66, tested and stamped by the London County Council's
Inspector.
The necessary drainage works for the house and buildings, and for the roadways on
the east side of the Dock have been executed by the Yestry employees ; 510 tons of granite
setts have been delivered for paving the whole of the roadways and under the cart shed
by Mr. Wm. Wilson, of Kilsyth, N.B., in accordance with his tender at 28s. per ton,
and the paving works are now in progress.
Gas and water have been laid on to the house, shelter, and other buildings, and for the
use of the depot.
The tender of Messrs. Grafton & Co., of Bedford, for the supply of a 3-ton steam
crane at £300, and those of Messrs. Stothert & Pitt, Limited, for 100 feet of railway track
complete at £15 and three ½yard turn-over skips at £18 2s. 6d., were accepted.
the crane, which was required to lift and lower the maximum load at a radius of
20 ffeet, was handed over by the makers on the 6th December, and commenced working
immediately immediatley afterwards. Up to the end of the year the following materials had been
landed.