1841  Granted to John Morse of Yorkley, William Robins of Yorkley and William Davis of Pillowell and John Davis of Pillowell in equal shares as Free Miners.
Engine Ditch Pit and James’ Folly Pit.
All those several tracts of coal in the Little Delf and Smith Coal veins - Engine Ditch Pit.

1 March 1841  James’ Folly Moseley Green, John Morse & Co.
Two pits and Engine Ditch Pit
 James’ Folly Engine Ditch
Raised by:  Windlass Pits Windlass Pit
Depth of pits: 32 yards
How disposed of: Smiths coal Smiths coal
Daily quantity raised: 4 tons 2 tons
At 300 days annually: 1,800 tons

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c1847  J. Morse & Co.  Outputs:
 1841 627 tons
 1842 765
 1843 330
 1844 693
 1845 502
 1846 182

1859[?]  Surrendered.

21 September 1877  Re-galed to George Beach of Brockhollands, to be called New Engine Ditch Colliery.

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21 December 1879  Beach wished to surrender.  Not done?

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1 August 1882  William Jones applying for grant of unworked coal in Engine Ditch - not acceeded.

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14 April 1885  Application for re-grant by Thomas Davis of Pillowell.

26 November 1886  Granted.

29 September 1888  To surrender.

18 February 1889  Letter to Davis from D.A. Thomas, Pennsylvania, enquiring about the gale and debating purchase.

26 November 1889  Surrendered.
 

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3 February 1892  Solomon Jones, York Lodge, Parkend applying for grant.  Some debate over the coal under the railway which the S&W had not acquired.

6 February 1893  Granted.

8 March 1898  Could not pay dead rent due to the amount of old workings encountered and the expense of re-opening the pit.  For the past eighteen months had only raised 147 tons, half of which was large and sold for 10/- per ton, rest was small 4/- per ton.  Wished to surrender, the colliery was stopped and he could not sell it as with the amount of old workings he could not find a large area of coal to impress a would be purchaser.
Jones was also owner of Woorgreens Gale.  The Crown decided he could surrender Engine Ditch if he paid £10 he owed on Woorgreen and fenced the pits on Engine Ditch.

22 July 1898  Surrendered.

6 August 1912  Engine Ditch No.3 granted to a committee of Free Miners.

6 May 1914  Giving notice to surrender.

27 May 1919  Amos Morgan applying for re-grant.  A W. Evans applying to have rails, trim and drams.

28 October 1919  Engine Ditch No4 granted to Amos Morgan and others then conveyed to William A. Evans.

27 November 1920  Conveyance William Ambrey Evans to Albert Miles and others.

28 March 1924  Moseley Green United Collieries Ltd.  Held Engine Ditch, Four Brothers, New Pluckpenny, Champion No 2, and Newmanshropshire No.2.
Messrs. J.E.C. Parritt and F.H.A. Bell from 31 December 1923.
Conveyed to Parritt and Bell 21 March 1924.

13 January 1930  Sale to Parritt never completed.