1841 George Morse of Yorkley,
Free Miner, did after 9 April 1832 apply for a gale of coal called Morseís
Level Colliery. Application not granted but work commenced.
Coal in the Yorkley or Bailey Delf
vein.
F3 286
1846 G. M. Morse. Output
28 tons.
BT31 999/1547 BLAKENEY &
FOREST OF DEAN COAL CO. LTD.
To work Nags Head, Morses Level
and Cockshoot Level Collieries.
Capital £6,000 in 48 £125
shares.
Subscribers:
John Knowles Pendlebury, Lancs Colliery
proprietor 8 shares
Andrew Knowles
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Robert Knowles
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Henry Bristow Brixton Geological
surveyor 6 ì
Ewing Pye de Colquhan
London 6 ì
Simeon Holmes Blakeney 9
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Edward Hull Manchester 3
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Registered office: Howbeach
7 April 1866 Extra £2,000
30 November 1869 Wound up voluntarily
GRO D2598 6/2
16 July 1880 Samuel Jenkins
of Mill Hill, Bream, registered owner.
9 August 1881 Indenture between Samuel Jenkins and Gollop & Co. Ltd. Jenkins agrees to let to Gollop & Co. the wayleave to bring out all their coal of Morses Level at one penny per ton.
F3 708 MORSEíS LEVEL No. 2
COLLIERY
15 October 1898 Application
for re-grant James William, Barn Hill. To be worked by a level to
the Yorkley vein.
3 November 1898 A W. H. Jones of Nibly nr. Blakeney had arranged to purchase
21 November 1898 Granted.
6 October 1909 No work. Possible sale of gale. W. Langley-Smith, a solicitor of Gloucester, the galee
29 September 1915 Conveyance William Langley-Smith to Robert Holt Edmundson
19 January 1923 Howbeach Collieries Co. Ltd.
F3 709
10 November 1932 Gale not
worked for five years. Galees Messrs. The Howbeach Collieries Ltd.,
Chapel Hill Aylburton. Percy Moore.
Trotter: Morseís Level trends
southwards in the Yorkley for 900 yards then crosses the measures south-east
to cut Coleford High Delf.