27 June 1843  Granted to Richard Nash, of Dark Hill, for a pit on Tile Quarry Hill, called the Tile Quarry Pit, to get the coal from the Trenchard vein.

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26 February 1844  Colliery conveyed to Mr. Thomas Birt Trotter by way of mortgage.

15 December 1853  Piece of land leased to Messrs. Harper & Moore for 21 years expiring 29 September 1873 [1852] for getting clay.

12 July 1854  T. B. Trotter transferred colliery to Henry Jordan who then retransferred it to Trotter.

6 December 1866  George Edward Francis.  Mrs. Jane Trotter paying rent.

1 February 1870  Requiring piece of land.

29 December 1871  Transfer Jane Trotter to Mr. John Selby.

25 January 1872  Edward Corah, Park House, Coleford requesting grant to John Selby of a license to dig clay.  Thomas Grey has no objections.  Lease of land for erection of kilns for manufacture of bricks.

6 July 1872 Dean Forest Mercury   COLEFORD PETTY SESSIONS  ...William Pacey, a youth of near Coleford, was summoned by John Selby for leaving his work without notice.  Damages were laid at 30s.  Defendant alleged that he had left because the pit rope had been condemned by Timothy Mountjoy.  The complainant stated that on the morning of the 4th. the defendant refused to go down the pit, and went on the following day to work elsewhere, and he had to put on two men in his place.  He admitted that there were three wires broken, but said he had bought the rope off Messrs. Brain, who had used it for heavier work.  On hearing that the men refused to go down, he had it repaired and reversed.  A witness named Henry Powell, still employed at the pit, said all the men refused to go down on the morning of the 4th. inst. because 8 or 10 wires were gone in one place of the rope and 5 or 6 in another.  The rope was repaired by a workman named Halliday.  Defendant was ordered to forfeit 11s. due to him, and complainant ordered to pay costs.

11 March 1873  F3 107  Lease of clay to John Selby.  My husband was never paid by the late company.

17 December 1873  as to Harper & Moores renewing their lease of clay at Darkhill.

19 September 1874  With reference to Harper & Moores late clay lease - pits are fenced round with posts and rails.

23 December 1874  Summons by Crown against Selby for £16. 0. 0.

30 October 1875  Thos. Grey applying for clay lately held by Harper & Moore.  Prepared to grant to registered owners of Darkhill - this was a mistake.
Dark Hill Endeavour belonging to family of late Mr. John Constant and partly under mortgage to William Stallard of Hereford.
Harper & Moore never had any colliery interests.
Dark Hill Colliery belongs to Mrs. Julia Mushet & Messrs. Goodrich Langham, W. H. Fryer and C. W. Dew.

March 1876  Prospectus for the Ellwood Green Colliery & Fire Brick Co. Ltd.
ëa sound and bonâ fide Colliery and Fire Brick undertakingí
ëThe Colliery and Brickworks... is a going concerní
Colliery already working an output of twenty tons per day, and a further expenditure of £200 will bring it up to sixty tons per day.
Vendors have been induced to part with their interests in this concern and turn it into a small and private Limited Liability Company (in which they will hold the greater share interest)
Directors: Thomas Grey Esq.  Colliery Proprietor  Cheltenham
 Edward Corah Esq.  Coleford
 G. C. Coulthard Esq. C. E.  Mitcheldean Railway, Ross
The property containing an acreage of 40 acres of Coal and 55 of Fire Clay.  The Directors contemplate obtaining a further 40 acres adjoining.
The colliery at present is being worked on a small scale.
The Coal is the upper Trenchard seam.  Its quality is good, and it is well adapted for house and manufacturing.

31 May 1876  Being informed that the Ellwood Green Colliery & Brick Co. are applying to get clay at Tile Hill Quarry...  I own coal.  Henry Jordan.

7 June 1876  Owners of Dark Hill Endeavour objecting.

27 October 1876  Messrs. Jordan, Jordan and Adams had applied for the Lower Trenchard vein.

6 April 1877  Tile Quarry Colliery No. 2  Granted to Henry Jordan, of Milkwall, a gale to get coal from the Lower Trenchard vein.

3 June 1878  Several thousand bricks on property.

7 July 1878  Brick Co. in liquidation, leases forfeited James Allsop & William Jones apply for a new lease of whole.
Litigation between Brick Co. and Grey & Selby.
Brick Co. failed to pay the purchase money, therefore Selby claimed property.  Grey had received large sums on Selbyís account.

24 June 1881  Possible acquisition of Ellwood Green Colliery & Brick Co.
***NOT FINISHED PULL AGAIN***

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15 March 1882  Thos. Gray, Prospect House, Leamington, for renewal of lease of Tile Quarry in conjunction with adjoining Dark Hill also held by him - clay leases only.

24 June 1886  Gray applying for land ëadjoining my brickworksí.  Some clay going to Wanklyn & Grindell?

6 June 1886  Wilson v The Ellwood Green Co. Ltd.

11 January 1887  Gray deceased.
By agreement 1 March 1876 Thomas Gray the mortgagee and John Selby agreed to sell the Ellwood Green Colliery, Brickworks and plant to the Ellwood Green Colliery & Brick Co. Ltd.  Company then took possession of the property, laid out a good deal of money on it and then went into liquidation.
I have through Mr. Gray paid rents and incurred considerable expense in respect of the property for some portion of which I have a first charge and in Mr. Grays lifetime I was making arrangements that he should take the property.
Since his death I have been informed that the works were placed, not on the land sold to the company by Mr. Gray and Mr. Selby but on an adjacent piece which Mr. Gray was in treaty for a lease of at the time of death.
Arthur Hughes.
Gray purchased the works from the liquidator - no he did not!
Mr. Gray was very deaf and ëapt to misunderstand thingsí.

1888  Ellwood Colliery gale - sale 17 February - Engine, boiler, drum, round rope, flat rope, framing, pit carts, anvil, tiles etc.
Distrained plant on Tile Quarry gale - John Selby - registered owners the representatives of Selby of Ellwood Green.

11 April 1888  to recover possession of clay and brick works - key in hands of a Mrs. Hamblin - office, a compartment of an old railway carriage was locked up.

23 March 1889  Enquiring as to lease of brick works at Ellwood.  Rent £25 for two and a half acres of land and buildings, had been applied for by late Mr. Gray.  Royalty 4d. ton on clay, same as Wanklyn & Co.
Trenchard clay and coal underneath.
Tile Quarry Hill gale having been given up by Gray and Selby.
Client would not entertain idea with such a small area, would only give 12,000,000 bricks or with the machinery intended to install only 18 months work.

28 August 1889  Emily Selby - besides 3 kilns, the sheds and other buildings there are a clay crusher, pug mill and a brick press also a number of bricks and brick moulds, planks, barrows.  Also the railway carriage body.  Wishing to remove all buildings.

31 October 1890  Indenture of lease Shadrach Selby, Ellwood Green, Emily Selby - land for cottage.
Emily Selby deceased 14 June 1902, Shadrach was eldest son.

19 April 1892  Some depredations.  Plant rotting and decaying from exposure.  Mr. Drew of Cinderford looking at old engine.
Mr. John Selby, registered owner of Tile Hill Quarry gale.  Thomas Gray, mortgagee.

25 April 1904  Offer from Francis Nash of Ellwood for the garden.

8 September 1905  Registered owner Arthur Latham, Glendower House, Monmouth - not worked.

1 November 1907  No work.

6 October 1909  No work, Latham, Thorneycroft, Monmouth.

18 June 1916  Messrs. Elsmore lessees have opened a slope on Ellwood Green.  Mr. Lathamís representatives the registered owners - mortgagee C. H. Rowberry.
Lease to Elsmores 8 Janueary 1916 - gales included in - Tile Quarry, Darkhill Endeavour No.2, Shutcastle and Elsmores No.2 in Trenchard seam only.

20 July 1916  Elsmoreís wishing to extend tramway to a loading wharf.

30 June 1924  No working, reps. of Latham.

9 July 1925  Mr. Smith the representative of Latham trying to sell off Lydbrook Deep Level to the Lydney & Crump Meadow Co., would then pay off arrears on Tile Quarry.
Gale sold to Mr. W. E. Stanley Burdess of Abbotswood Lodge, Cinderford.  Since then by arrangement Mr. Elsmore has worked it a little, spent all his money and could not go on on account of water.
Elsmores sold lease to Burdess.

16 March 1926  Some of Lathams gales to be sold to Thomas Peglar viz. Darkhill Endeavour, Elsmores, Lass of the Mill, Shutcastle 5/6ths.

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22 February 1928  Conveyance dated 1 March 1895; Conveyance 5 October 1896 (last preceeding);  Transfer of mortgage dated 21 August 1926; Conveyance dated 1 September 1927 to Mr. P. J. Perkins.
Phillip John Perkins from G. L. Lloyd & others.  Perkins, Ellwood.

10 July 1928  Gale bought by Rossiter & James of Parkend - owners of greater part of gale which is all idle at present.

P. J. Perkins  Dark Hill Colliery Co.

August 1928  Perkins holds one part, Rossiter & James the rest, not worked because of bad trade.

19 March 1929  Perkins to Rossiter & James.  Fred Rossiter and Simeon John Thomas James.
All the portions of Tile Quarry gale, bounded on east by deep boundary of Tile Quarry Colliery, on south by road from Milkwall to Ellwood on north-west by outcrop.  Price £400.
Executors of Latham sold gale to Perkins in September 1927.
Old tramway had been removed.

11 October 1932  Rest of gale Perkins to Rossiter & James £6. 6s. 8d.
 
9 November 1934  No work for five years, liable for forfeiture.

4 December 1934  Rossiter & James.  Coal of an inferior quality - Trenchard - practically unsaleable.

14 January 1938  Still no work.
9 January 1941  Messrs. Brown & Ellis, Broadwell have taken over.

22 May 1941  Found coal, not as good as had hoped for - may give up work.

19 July 1943  Applying for a new slope in Farm Wood.  Mr. Eric John Adam, Darkhill gale.

18 September 1943  F3 107  Tile Quarry conveyance F. Rossiter & S. J. T. James to Benj. Ellis and William John Brown.

October 1944  Ellis wishing to lay a new tramway with loading bank and haulage engine - if he can get an engine.