1841 Peter Teague, James Teague
senior, and George White (as executor of Isaiah Teague, deceased) as to
26 equal undivided 48th parts, James Teague, junior of Little Dean Hill
and John Perry of Lane End, Coleford as to nine shares and John Birt, William
Bert, Caleb Birt and John Howard Hinton to thirteen shares.
Coal in the Coleford High Delf vein
- level driven.
F3 308 NEW POTLID
24 August 1886 Application
Amos Brown, Broadwell Lane End
4 March 1887 Application Amos Brown
& Alfred Gwilliam, Berry Hill
15 August 1887 Granted to Brown
5 February 1892 New Potlid Colliery instructions from Alfred Gwilliam to sell at Angel Hotel on 19th February.
12 February 1892 Sale of moiety.
Arrears £11 14s. 8d. Served auctioneers with a notice at the
sale but the colliery was not sold.
Dean Forest Mercury
New Potlid Colliery, Mitcheldean Lane End. To Sell by auction Angel
Hotel on 19th.
Potlid in the Coleford High Delf
and Trenchard seams together with the plant, situate at the Middle Pit,
and consisting of Single Cylinder Engine, with Boiler, Winding Drum, Rope,
Pit Framing and Wheel, Guides, Pit Carts, Quantity of Rails, large Quantity
of Pit Wood, Stricker Plates, Water Cart, Wooden Ventilating Trunks, Weighing
Machine etc. etc.
Under an agreement with the owner
of the other moiety the Vendor has the right to work the coal on the South
Side of the Fault called 'The Horse' upon payment to such owner of an improved
Royalty per Ton of 6d. for Block Coal, 5d. for Through Coal, 4d. for Small
Coal, and such owner holds an agreement upon similar terms from the Vendor
to work the coal on the North Side.
The portable engine and winding
drum situate at the Middle Pit will be offered for sale after the sale
of the colliery.
27 March 1896 Edward Porter,
Berry Hill, had heard Crown had some buildings for sale near Snatch and
old engine pit no. 446, also land near the old engine pit.
The Old Engine Pit and Snatch Crust
pit, marked erroneously as New Fore Pit, are both upon Valletts Level No.
2 gale, granted to James Brain. Old Engine Pit filled up.
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23 February 1914 Amos Brown
having found it necessary to close the Bush Pit No. 2 on the Potlid gale
in consequence of the coal being worked out.
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12 January 1924 Conveyance
Amos Brown to Sydney Taylor
10 March 1924 Sydney Taylor to the Cannop Vale Collieries Co. Ltd. Conveyances deal with an agreement dated 30 June 1922 between Brown and milsom Hamblin relating to coal in the Yorkley vein only of the gale lying to the north of The Horse.
12 March 1926 Cannop Vale Collieries
Co. Ltd. in voluntary liquidation on the 6th. Directors:- J. S. P.
Samborne, O. Edwards, O. Willcox. Money owing to directors, each
of whom had put in about £1,900 odd. Assets included £1,500
in the Nine Wells Co.
Had had an offer for the colliery.
Mr. E. C. Heal had been giving misleading
reports.
Amos Brown deceased by 31 December 1932, had New Potlid, Valletts Level No. 2, Trenchard No. 2, Smith's Trenchard, Fox's Trenchard, New Stoney Stile, Mansfields Trenchard, New Hawkin's No. 2, Slopes Trenchard.
28 July 1933 Auction at Angel
Hotel, Coleford.
New Potlid at Wimberry Bottom, 116
acres, Coleford High Delf
Potlid not sold
Later sold for £15 to Mr. G.
H. Jones