The 1841 Awards confirmed this gale in the Coleford High Delf to Richard White of Little Dean Hill who had been working it prior to this date.  However, it is unlikely that any serious winning of the coal was done and the gale was surrendered back to the Crown.  It was re-granted on the 13th August 1855 to a William Meredith of Littledean Hill.  The colliery was to be situated close to the Haywood Pit.
At the same time as Meredith was applying for the re-grant so was Mr. Wagstaff, owner of the Cinderford Bridge Colliery who wished to work the gale from one of his shafts on the Cinderford gale.
By March 1873 the gale was in the hands of Edward Foxall who lived at Rock House, Cinderford.  On the 20th he wrote to the Crown; 'I am preparing to work Richard White's Colliery'.  He stated that he required land for building, sinking a shaft etc. 'from the upper side of the Turnpike road up to Mr. Crawshay's Tramroad at Haywood.  I should have applied for land ere this as I was about selling or getting some one to join me in working the colliery'.
Edwin Crawshay, owner of the adjoining Haywood Colliery wished Foxall to join him in a company but this was declined.  Later part of the gale was sold to Crawshay and in July 1877 the registered owners were given as Edward Foxall (as to part), Littledean Woodside Colliery Co. (Ltd.)(equitable owners) and Francis Adams, Robert Gay Barrow and Charles Nash as Trustees of the Standard Benefit Building Society who were mortgagees of Crawshays portion.  It was Edwin Crawshay who had formed the Littledean Woodside Colliery Co. Ltd. (see Haywood Colliery above)
It would appear that apart from some work done by Crawshay in his part of the gale nothing else was done as Foxall was applying for an extension of time allowed for opening in September 1892.
In January 1904 the Crown thought that being a deep gale it would be advisable to amalgamate Richard Whites with the East Dean Deep gale in Group No. 2.
It was reported in the Dean Forest Mercury in December 1906 that the gale was to be auctioned following Foxall's death.  The auction particulars gave the gale area as about 120 acres of which 16 had been worked by Haywood Colliery.  An estimated 500,000 tons of coal remained.  However, a Mr. James Bretherton now appeared on the scene with evidence that Foxall had mortgaged the gale to him in December 1886.  He enquired about the portion of the gale sold to the Littledean Woodside Coal Co. 'and afterwards re-purchased by Mr. Foxall from their sucessors in title'.
The gale was finally forfeited by the Bretherton family in July 1910 and amalgamated into the No. 2 group.