Ralph Anstis Industrial Teagues  Galed by Moses Teague in 1831

1841  Moses Teague of Cinderford, Free Miner, to Howbitch Engine.
Coal in the Coleford High Delf and all other veins above it.

Xmas 1845  Arrears due Howbeach Engine.  Exec. of late Moses Teague two and a half years

BT31 320/1122
HOWBEACH COAL COMPANY LIMITED
To lease and work two collieries with any clay and stone therin.
Capital £12,000 in 240 £50 shares
Incorporated 15 January 1858

Subscribers: James Walton; Wm Knocker; Richard Grantham; James Teague, Hagloe House; Adolphus Walter

Registered office 25 Clements Lane, London

Shareholders included:-
Timothy Bennett    Mitcheldean     10 shares    Forfeited 28 March 1859
James Teague                   10 shares    Forfeited 26 March 1859

3 October 1860         Registered office 2, Philpot Lane
5 November 1863              ì              ì     23,     ì           ì

15 February 1864 Last return of shareholders.  Only 75 shares.

8 November 1873 Gloucester Journal  Simeon Holmes summoned for failing to provide daily inspection at colliery (Howbeech).......[?]
 
16 June 1877  it is reported that steps are being taken by Mr. Osman Barrett, the sole or part proprietor of the Howbeach Colliery (known better as that of the late Dr. Teagueís pit,) to re-open this colliery.  Although no coal has been raised from the pit, there is every reason for believing the award of gale is of a very valuable nature.

F3 530
12 July 1886  Osman Barrett lease dated 5 July 1855 in connection with Howbeach gale.  Blackpool Pit alongside siding which crossed road.

November 1888  12 cottages alongside road, the Barracks (pre-dating present ones)

25 January 1889  Howbeach Engine not worked for 5 years

25 February 1889  Registered owners Osman Barrett & Jas. J.G. Borlase

18 June 1890  Owners the Forest of Dean Patent Fuel Co., Simeon Holmes in negotiation to put in a siding to the Severn & Wye Mineral Loop.  This and the connection to the GW Rly. will cost c£2000.  Output of 50,000 tons per year hoped for.
GWR held strip of land preventing connection to S&W

30 March 1892  Sale of collieries to Major Howell

21 January 1895  No working for 5 years

20 September 1895  Dean Forest Mercury  A COLLIERY NEAR BLAKENEY TO BE DISMANTLED
The howbeach Colliery, near Blakeney, commonly known as Teagues Pit is being closed down and dismantled.  The property is part of the Dean Forest Navigation Colliery Co. property which includes the Barley Pit (sic) at Yorkley and the Pillowell.  Owing to a strike the Barley Pit was closed.  The name of Major Collins of Clearwell Court has been associated with the property and it was the subject of an arbitration recently between the Metropolitan Bank and the liquidator of the National Bank of Wales, of which the property was an asset.  The ëNationalí it will be remembered assessed the colliery at £27,000 but the arbitrator has given the National Bank the sum of £3,000.  The Metropolitan since it has come into their hands, has decided to close the Howbeach Colliery, in the result that it will have a very bad effect upon the trade of Blakeney and neighbourhood.  The property was developed 30 years ago after which nothing was done until about 1890 since when there have been many fluctuations, though at one period about 100 men found work there.  In 1893 about 40,000 tons of coal were raised there, but the water trouble and depressed trade in the steam coal had its effect, and operations have become more restricted.  The men were served with notices a fortnight ago and coal getting ceased on Tuesday evening.  The men are now engaged in claering all removable plant, the pumps etc. out of the shaft, and in the course of a few days, a corner of the Forest which has been more or less active and properous will become dismantled and desolate.

13 December 1897  Forfeiture for non-working threatened

10 January 1898  Dean Forest Navigation Coal & Fuel Co. and National Bank of Wales joint owners.  Metropolitan Bank trying to sell collieries

9 June 1898  For Sale by Auction
Dean Forest Navigation Collieries
HOWBEACH & BLACKPOOL COLLIERIES
Howbeach 70 yards, Blackpool 101 yards, Frogís Pit for ventilation
21 cottages let at 8s. per month.  Plant:- pair of 23 inch winding engines, pit frame and pullies, duplex pump, pulsometer, deane pump, donkey pump, two lancashire boilers, railway sidings, Pooleyís weighbridge, 28 inch horizontal pumping engine, 18 inch winding engine, two boilers, pit frame and pully etc. etc.
At Howbeach 28 inch horizontal pump, 18 inch winder, two boilers, pit frame.
F3 531
28 October 1902  Not worked for 5 years

15 December 1902  Metropolitan Bank wish to surrender as from 31st Blackpool Engine, Howbeach Engine and Pillowell Level.

J.J. Joynes at Howbeach.
Began work at Howbeach Colliery aged 13 c 1878 where efforts were being made to reopen.
Some 15 years later he returned to take charge of the collieries and to successfully un-water one shaft [1893?] which had defied all effort for 30 years.

BT31 25717/165410   HOWBEACH COLLIERIES LTD.
Capital £80,000 in 80,000 £1 shares

To acquire and take over Wallsend Ltd.

Incorporated 18 March 1920

Registered Office Howbeach Colliery

Directors: Bledisloe, Robert Bowles, Brasier Creagh, Tudor Crawshay, William Jones, Arthur John Morgan

Crawshayís 9,999 shares, Tudor Crawshay 1
Park Colliery Co. 9,999 Bledisloe 1
R. Thomas & Co. 10,000

1926 Crawshayís all 29,999 A. Morgan 1

(1928 Arthur Morgan Ltd.)

Howbeach dormant after 1921 strike.

26 April 1927  Sold to Morris Collieries Ltd.

25 February 1927 ëDFMí Report on collieries
4 March 1927  ëDFMí Report on collieries

COAL 17/253  HOWBEACH COLLIERIES LTD.
15 September 1949  Royalty to Mrs. Moore on Pillowell United £1055.12.6.  Mrs. Moore offered to sell Howbeach Gales to the Board.

23 September 1949  Although life of Princess Royal and Norchard looks precarious...

Trotter:
Howbeach; Deep shaft 305 ft. proved Yorkley 2í thick at 144 ft.  At pit bottom cross measure driven eastwards to Coleford High Delf.