Birchen Grove

BT31/397/1503 GLOUCESTERSHIRE COAL MINING CO. LTD.
To acquire the True Blue, Newham Bottom, Woodside and Birchen Grove Collieries and to hold, work and use a railway about two miles long made and laid from such collieries to the Bullo Pill Branch of the SWRly. together with the plant, steam engines, engine house, houses, buildings, erections, carpenter and smith’s shops, tram wagons, pit carts, machinery, tools, etc.
Capital £40,000 in £1 shares.
 
 
Edwin Pearson
Middlesex
1,000
?               ? 
500
John Dinnington Fletcher
500D
James Lawne
London
1,000D
Stephen Green
500
Geo. Grant
800
Joseph Walton
500

Incorporated 5 April 1859

27 March 1860  5490 shares sold.

18 April 1860  To be wound up.

See Lydbrook Deep Level below. See also True Blue after 1920