| Reference Number | DSCAM/4/6/12 |
| Title | Miscellaneous material relating to the Oakthorpe estate |
| Description | DSCAM/4/6/12/1-3: Ashby and Nuneaton Railways Joint Committee. Notice to treat addressed to the representatives of the late John Piddock, with plan annexed, 13 Feb. 1869; copy report on the land required, 15 Mar. 1869. Copy draft conveyance (7 Nov. 1870) by the Revd John Manuel Echalay, Clerk, rector of Appleby, Leicestershire and the Revd Francis Spedding, Clerk, Vicar of Donisthorpe, Derbyshire and Leicestershire, to the London and North Western Railway Company and the Midland Railway Company of lands as specified at Oakthorpe, parish of Stretton en le Field, Derbyshire for the Ashby and Nuneaton joint line; consideration of £375. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/4: Case for the opinion of counsel on behalf of Thomas Wight in connexion with the estate at Oakthorpe and the land required by the Ashby and Nuneaton Railway; 1876. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/5-6: Copy report for Thomas Wight as to the value of the Oakthorpe estate, 24 Feb. 1871; Copy draft report of E. Fisher as to evidence and information obtained re Oakthorpe and Donisthorpe minerals (outlying minerals of the late Marquess of Hastings) belonging to Mr Hastings [Lord Donington], 12 Sept. 1872. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/7: Incomplete letter from [Sir] Mylles C[ave-]B[rowne-]Cave, Stretton en le Field, Ashby de la Zouch to T. Wight re Oakthorpe minerals; 29 Sept. 1873. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/8: Receipts of Joseph Boyer, Ringwood, Dulwich Wood Park, West Norwood, for his annuity; 20 Jan. 1874-12 Jan. 1875. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/9: Copy draft letter from ? at Ashby de la Zouch to J.T. Woodhouse, Derby [mining agent] concerning the outlying minerals of Mr Hastings [Lord Donington]; 23 Mar. 1874. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/10: Prospectus of The South Leicestershire Colliery Co. Ltd, with application form and plan of minerals to be worked; 20 Aug. 1875. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/11-13: Press copy correspondence between C.F.A. Hastings [Lord Donington], Donington Park, John H. Woodhouse, Overseal, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Myles C.B. Cave, Stretton-en-le-Field, Messrs Smith and Mammatt, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, John German, and Thomas Wight, Dudley concerning possible terms for sale of Oakthorpe by Wight to Hastings and other Oakthorpe matters; 3 Nov. 1876-21 May 1878. Copy valuation of Oakthorpe by James Whitehouse, mining engineer, Tipton, 26 Aug. 1887; and his costs for same, 4 Dec. 1878. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/14: Annual report and balance sheet of the Ibstock Colliery Co. Ltd for the year ending 30 June 1881, 17 Aug. 1881. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/15: Copy draft assignment (23 June 1881) by The Heather Colliery Company Limited (in liquidation) and William Elijah Benton of Heather, Leicestershire, mining engineer (liquidator), with the consent of Charles Frederick, Baron Donington and Francis Beresford Champion of Heather, gentleman (lessors), to The Staffordshire Financial Co. Ltd, of the Heather Colliery in the parishes of Heather and Ibstock, Leicestershire, for a consideration of £2500; recites leases and liquidator's intention to abandon working and sell up. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/16: Copy draft counterpart lease (24 Mar. 1884) by James Amphlett Morton of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, gentleman, John Matthias Green of Birmingham, Warwickshire, gentleman, William Abbott of Birchfield, Birmingham, gentleman, Elijah Harvey of Birmingham, gentleman, and George Bourne of Droitwich, Worcestershire, salt manufacturer and Sarah his wife and Mary Susannah Piddocke of Droitwich, spinster, to Charles Frederick, Baron Donington, of 9a. 2r. 39p. of land at Oakthorpe, occupied by Lord Donnington, with the right to erect buildings and make coke, and exclusive possession of the pit shaft and underground workings, and to work coal through them, for a term of 2 years from 24 June 1884, at a fixed rent of £329 4s 8d p.a. and a wayleave of 1d per ton (of 2640lb) of coal brought to bank from any other mines belonging to Lord Donington through the shaft, etc.; recites that part of the 35a. of coal mentioned in the 1857 lease [DSCAM/4/6/2/13] has been worked but no other; plan attached. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/17-19: Letters from A. Elliott, Bedworth to Thomas Wight re Heather Colliery; 12 Feb. 1887-19 Sept. 1888. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/20: Press copy letter from Thomas Wight, Dudley to John German, auctioneer, Ashby de la Zouch re possible sale of Oakthorpe to Lord Donnington; describes his speculative purchase of Oakthorpe 20 years before, working out of various collieries, strategic situation, calculations of quantities and yields etc.; 19 Dec. 1887. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/21-24: Rules, notices, agendas and correspondence, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire Colliery Owners' Association; Nov. 1891. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/25: Report (21 Oct. 1893) by J.J. Whitehead to T. Whitehead, 54 Fishergate, Preston on the Ibstock and Oakthorpe mineral estates belonging to T. Wight; attached plan and section. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/25-38: Correspondence received by Messrs Wight and Jones, Dudley from Ashby de la Zouch Rural Sanitary Authority, W.H. Radford, Pelham Chambers, Angel Row, Nottingham and others concerning the Oakthorpe water supply, proposals to take water from abandoned colliery shaft etc., with list of waterworks schemes designed by W.H. Radford, AMICE, ARIBA; 22 May-31 July 1894. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/39-42: Letters from James Hall-Wright, solicitor, 66 Corporation Street, Birmingham to Messrs Wight and Jones concerning Oakthorpe lands and minerals; 30 Nov. 1899-28 Feb. 1900. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/43: Letter from Moira Colliery Co. Ltd, Moira, Ashby-de-la-Zouch to J. Stanier Jones re completion of Ibstock lease [to H.C. Jobson}; 20 Apr. 1901. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/44-48: Letters from John Turner, consulting mining engineer, Donisthorpe, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Ibstock Collieries Ltd to Messrs Wight and Jones/Wight, Jones and Barradale/J. Stanier Jones, Dudley concerning workings of Ibstock Colliery, with sketch plan shewing position of headings; 4 Jan.-6 May 1904. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/49: 'An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from the Coventry Canal, at or near Marston Bridge, in the parish of Bedworth, in the county of Warwick, to a certain Close in the Parish of Ashby de la Zouch, in the County of Leicester, and for continuing the same from thence in One Line to the Limeworks at Ticknall, in the County of Derby, and in another Line, to the Limeworks at Cloudhill, in the said County of Leicester, with certain Cuts or Branches...' Royal Assent, 9 May 1794. 34 George III, Cap. 93. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/50: Copy report for the Committee of the Ashby Canal of John Deakin, Bagthorpe Farm, Nottingham and John Woodhouse, senior, Bedworth, on coals in the Measham, Oakthorpe, Donisthorpe, Willesley etc. areas; 15 June 1797. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/51: Statement of royalty payments by the Moira Colliery Company, 1871-84. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/52: 'Section of bore hole Oakthorpe', with covering note, 20 Mar. n.y. |
| DSCAM/4/6/12/53: 'An Act [recte Bill for an Act] for Dividing and Inclosing the Common and Open Fields, Wastes and Common Ground, within the Township and Liberty of Ibstock, in the County of Leicester.' 1774. |
| Date | 1774-1904 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 53 items |
| Level | Item |