Findall Mine Level

1841  Edward Protheroe junior of Newnham.
All those tracts of coal in the Trenchard and High Delf veins.

F3 286
c1847  Not worked

F3 671
25 April 1885  Time for re-opening to expire 30 June.  Owners [?] Mr. James Gollop, Lydney and the Gloucestershire Banking Co., Newnham.

21 April 1888  Wallsend Colliery Co. Lydney ‘returned trucks to be labelled ‘via Awre Junction’’.  Had both Wallsend and Findall gales.  A license to work Findall coal through Wallsend was granted 4 November 1882.

22 November 1889  Conveyance Gloucestershire Banking Co. and Joseph Wheatley.  Gloucestershire Banking Co. registered owners of Coopers Level, Findall Mine Level and Wallsend - 19 March 1886 not registered.  Wheatley to sell to Richard Clare Banks.

13 June 1892  Working Findall through Wallsend - had driven over 400 yards in Findall - 250 yards of that through a fault.

18 November 1896  Was going to surrender but an offer to buy came in.

13 June 1898  Application by W.H. Jones for a tramway through Staple Edge to Howbeach.

21 June 1898  Ready to increase output to 50 tons a day after 9 months unprofitable work but needed tramway.  From level mouth to a winding engine then via  a drum down to the loading bank at Howbeach.  License granted.

12 November 1903  Jones to assign to E.A.Trapnell.

14 March 1907  Passed out of Trapnells hands ‘a long time since’, owners now ‘Wallsend Limited’.

5 June 1907  Tramway not used by late owner, rails taken up several years ago by him.  Rails and sleepers removed between three and four years ago.  Steam engine still in Staple Edge wood - must be in a very poor condition if it will not realise £3.
It was on 30 May 1906 that Trapnell had sold.  The engine was lying dismantled.  There was a weighbridge as well.

30 December 1907  William Henry Shaw, colliery proprietor, working Wallsend.  Mr. Shaw of Wallsend Co.  It was believed that he was prepared to allow the winning of the Eastern United gale through Findall Mine Level.

27 June 1908  Crawshays offered £250 for the privilege, Wallsend wanted £1,200.  Crown believed that Crawshays should offer £750.

5 August 1908  Crawshays to purchase 6 acres of Findall gale with use of Findall Pit for £1,000.

1954  Findall Mine Level Colliery, Richard Porter, 7 Prospect Rd. Cinderford.