F3 609
November 1893  To be granted to George Morgan, Broadwell Lane End.

15 December 1893  Granted.

17 December 1894  George Morgan, John W. Morgan and George A. Morgan in driving a level for the Foundry Colliery trespassed into New Road Level gale.  New Road Level to the deep of Foundry and in June last a level being driven by Messrs. Morgan struck the coal some 40 yards below the deep boundary of their gale.  Have now driven another level with virtually the same result.  ‘They are poor men’.
1894  Output 158 tons (Morgan & Sons)

13 March 1899  Accumulated arrears of rent but insufficient plant to distrain.  Morgan stated that he was going through bad coal.  Three or four levels, machine house, office and loading bank on Severn & Wye tramroad.

1 March 1900  Morgan granted a lease for 35 years to a Mr. William Morris of Newport.

30 November 1900 Dean Forest Guardian  Accident reported.  Tram broke away on incline to a loading wharf on the Coleford - Speech House road.  Two small boys injured.

BT31 10972/83366
COLEFORD RED ASH
Application by subscribers of Forest [struck through] Coleford Red Ash.  Not to issue invitations to the public to subscribe.
Subscribers:
George Albert Morgan    Forest Red Ash Colliery    Colliery Proprietor
John William Morgan    Forest Red Ash Colliery    Colliery Proprietor
Edward Little Stroud Solicitor
R. T. Ward Stroud Coal Merchant
H. Theo Humpidge Amberley, Stroud Engineer
William Selwyn Stroud Flock manufacturer
John Rowell Stroud Solicitor

Incorporated 23 January 1905  Capital £1000 in 1000 £1 shares
To acquire by purchase as a going concern the business now carried on under name of George morgan & Sons at the Forest Red Ash Colliery near Coleford with all fixed and moveable plant, machinery and horses, wagons, trams, book debts and all other assests.
Agreement between George Albert Morgan and John William Morgan and the Coleford red Ash Colliery Co.
Registered office 2, Rowcroft Stroud John Rowell.
Vendors will sell gale - granted 15 December 1893.  Vendors and late father George Morgan traded as Forest Red Ash Colliery Co. or George Morgan & Sons.
Consideration for sale £212 2s. 11d.
For the property £100 - loose plant, machinery, horses etc.
Remaining property £112 2s. 11d.
To be paid in shares
Sale to be completed by 6 February.
Creditors owed £287 17s. 6d.

15 March 1905  Purchased a pony £14. 0s. 0d.  700 shares alloted, 502 fully paid up.

12 July 1905  New wagons let on deferred payment
Coleford Red Ash Collieries Co. Ltd.  two ten ton wagons over 7 years.  £11 2s. 6d.  Company repair.

9 August 1905  New wagons let on deferred payment
Three ten ton wagons over 7 years.  £11 2s. 6d.  Company repair.

11 October 1905  New wagons let on deferred payment
One ten ton wagon over 7 years.  £11 2s. 6d.  Company repair.

5 January 1906  Tenders to drive heading, Forest Red Ash Colliery Co. 6’x5’x4’6" ft cap per yard including putting on rope at pit.
Loading at Wimberry, incline down to screens on loading bank at Wimberry.

5 February 1907  £400 mortgage William Selwyn

1908 Potts Mining Register  Coleford Red Ash Colliery Co. Ltd., Coleford.
John Rowell, Managing Director and Secretary, Lynfield, Stroud.
Geo. S. Smith, Engineer - Telegraphic Address, Red Ash, Coleford.  Shipping port, Lydney.  Railway station, Speech House Road.  Steam Coal.
15 employed below ground, 5 above.

31 December 1908  Wagons £197 9s. 2d.

2 February 1909  Lease Coleford Red Ash for 10 years as they hoped life of colliery would be more than six and a half years.
Wished to bring office nearer weigh house ‘galees have from time to time put up buildings which in many cases are a disgrace’.  ‘It cannot be expected that erections for the use of a coal-mine would be works of art’.

1909  Second Debenture £300 Edward Little

23 July 1909 Dean Forest Guardian Sale by auction of seam of coal, Whittington, 46 acres, 146,000 tons, 2' 4" thick.  the level is equipped.  Stalls are set off and the coal may at once be worked.  A self-acting incline works the tubs direct to a railway siding.  Foundry Colliery No.1 at present let to Messrs. Alfred and James Parry on a yearly tenancy at a royalty of 9d. per ton.  The colliery can be worked at very little expense as there is no machinery.
Sale due to shareholders dispute.
No bid made at sale.

23 December 1909  John Rowell appointed receiver

21 October 1910  To be sold again by auction.  On instructions of John Rowell.  Sale 2 November.
Last worked by Coleford Red Ash in May 1909 then leased to Messrs. Parry Bros. who worked the coal to the end of May 1911.

25 April 1910  Attempted sale.  Had sold a weighing machine to J. Bennett for £34 9s. 8d.

12 January 1911  J. Morse bought ventilating fan £1. 5s. 0d.  Dykins had sold plant for £34 9s. 8d.

19 June 1912  John Rowell ceased to be receiver.

24 March 1914  Company dissolved.

1915  License to Messrs. Brown & Ellis to make a tramway and loading bank.  tramway carried over Howlerslade tramroad by means of a wooden bridge.

8 March 1922  Coleford Red Ash wound up in 1912 but secretary of the Company sublet to Parry Bros. then a Mr. Wm. Selwyn paid the rents and sublet to Messrs. Brown & Ellis who continued to work it up to 1920.
Mr. Selwyn mortgagee of Coleford Red Ash.
Gale is exhausted.

December 1922  Gale had been given up.

11 December 1924  Gale not used Brown & Ellis only leased gale for five years, expired 25 March 1919.