In 1893, to the east of this, there was a timber pond of 24 acres connected to No.1 dock by a short channel almost parallel with the then existing dry-dock but this link was later severed and part of its length converted to another dry-dock and the pond beyond dispensed with and filled in to make way for the necessary high-level rail viaducts and embankments run to the No.2 dock coal hoists.