1841  James Cowmeadow of Cinderford.  Coal in the Lowrey vein.

BT31 250/826   PARAGON & SPERO COAL MINING CO. LTD.
Assignment of a lease of certain collieries now possessed by certain people carrying on the business of mining for coals under the Cost Book principle by the name of the 'Paragon & Spero Coal Mining Co.'
Nominal capital £20,000 in 2,000 shares.
Subscribers mainly from kent
Incorporated 6 April 1857.
Never proceeded to business and wound up in 1858.

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20 April 1880  Spero & Gas Coal  Taynton & Son, solicitors had advanced £200 - £300 but James Cowmeadow died and money was sunk.

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8 September 1905  Lydney & Crump Meadow Collieries Co. Ltd.

6 April 1923 Dean Forest Mercury Re-grant advertised of Spero Crow Delf Colliery gale.

30 June 1923  Conveyance to Alfred Harry Thomas (see Leather Pit above)
Engine house and office.  Thomas had given up working Leather Pit.

8 March 1937  To surrender.  817 applications for a re-grant.