Reddings Level

1841  John Knight, of the Woodside, Ruerdean, yeoman and Edmund Hale, of the same place, yeoman, in equal undivided moieties (as claiming through or under Free Miners).
Coal in the Hill Delf vein

F3 285
29 August 1857  Edmund Hale and John Knight arrears of rent

February 1863  Richard White and Charles Edward Ward

5 November 1880  Emily Margaret Ward, Charles Richard Ward & William Welsford Ward - forfeiture

1 March 1881  Forfeited

F3 1222  REDDINGS LEVEL No. 2
15 February 1911  Thomas Smith & Soloman Jones both applied on 10 March 1881 and were the first applicants.  Smith now dead.
Jones has had three grants but Engine Ditch No. 2 now exhausted.
Gale outside Forest.  'Soloman Jones is a troublesome man to deal with'.

15 May 1911  Granted

31 December 1919  Conveyance G. H. Jones and another to Forest Syndicate

28 September 1920  Declaration of Trust.  Forest Syndicate Ltd. to Premier Briquette Co. Ltd.

1 March 1923  Mortgage H. C. Morris to Lloyds Bank

6 April 1923 Dean Forest Mercury Part of True Blue Colliery, Premier Briquette Co. in liquidation.

2 February 1925  Conveyance Lloyds to Wigpool Coal & Iron Co. Ltd. (This gale plus Birchen Grove and True Blue & Newham Bottom still stood in the name of the Forest Syndicate)

3 February 1931  Wigpool Coal & Iron to Joseph Wheatstone

5 May 1938  Conveyance to True Blue Colliery Co. Ltd.