27 June 1843 to Henry Roberts of Hazel Hill for a level situate at Holly Bush Hill, in Manningís old abandoned level, to get coal from the Coleford High Delf.
24 June 1872 Surrendered
22 November 1872 Re-galed as New Harrow Hill Green to Joseph Meek of Drybrook.
F3 632
3 November 1884 Harrow Hill
Green Colliery gale granted to Beriah Meek of The Morse.
F3 575
20 September 1889 Timothy
Trigg applying for a re-grant. Dead rent to be £5, royalty 3d. but
Trigg not happy ëDear Sir. Your terms are excessive for the old thrice
abandoned gale.í ëThere are if any only a few small pillars.í
Outcrop coal, a series of downthrow
faults as Trigg had proved in Prosper Colliery on Harrow Hill. Had
lost coal four times in driving eighty yards.
25 March 1890 Having begun the shaft the work was now standing for the want of stone to case the shaft. Wanting a lease of a disused quarry.
9 June 1890 Gale granted to Timothy Trigg
13 December 1891 I have sunk
a shaft on the top of the hill near Mannings Farm. Small quantity
of water, obliged to haul it out and tip it down the old Hollow Wagon road
where water has run since time immemorial. A person called Nichols
put a stank across the road to stop the flooding of his garden.
Trigg wanted the use of the old
pipes from Paragon Engine.
The pipes at Haywood Colliery remained
in situ as left by the Littledean Coal Co., when the lease of land near
Paragon Colliery, formerly held by Peter Constance for brick works, was
surrendered on 10 October 1885.
18 November 1892 Applying to
erect a turf cabin near his pit-head - viz over the windlass ans pit so
that he could work in bad weather. To take necessary turf as other
freeminers allowed to do.
Although the Crown did not sanction
the use of turf cabins they preferred them as they fell down rather than
stone huts which could be used for other purposes.
The water problem was still hanging
about and Trigg was to cut a trench to a main ditch. Nichol said
he would do half. Work was done but Triggs half was very poor.
Trigg had also built a loading wharf
alongside his pit to load coal into wagons on the side of the Forest road.
It was however built nearly halfway into the road at one side so wagons
could hardly pass and one in passing tore down part of the projection which
upset a ëcowlí, or pit bucket, of water which fell back into the pit, I
was told, and was broken and damaged some of the timbering in the pit.
Trigg had given trouble on former
occasions in paying his rent therefore the Crown was not too fond of him.
Crown agreed to let him have stone
from a nearby quarry at 4d per yard which Trigg could collect after it
had been measured. However, he just removed it without paying.
When the Keeper went to see Trigg about it Trigg became insolent.
ëTrigg has always been a pest to the Crown Servents and has never paid
anything; but a Mr. MacDougall of Ross paid for him for a time and has
been a great loser accordinglyí.
30 April 1894 Threat of forfeiture
for non-payment of rent. Trigg - Lower House Cottage, Hilcote, Newent.
About two months ago had met with
an accident here and got thrown down the shaft about 25 yards.
3 August 1894 Colliery forfeit.