| Description | Lease dated 16th September 1938, between:
1. The Right Honourable William Humble Eric, Earl of Dudley (the Landlord).
2. The Earl of Dudley's Baggeridge Colliery Ltd., Brierley Hill (the Tenant).
Refers to a lease of outcrops of thick coal and heathen coal under lands at Lower Gornal, Netherton Hill, and The Thorns, Quarry Bank. Rent: minimum of £50 per year for working mines. Also royalty of 6d. per ton of coal and £5 per acre of surface land used. Period of lease: 50 years from 1st December 1938. Attached are three Ordnance Survey maps of the areas referred to, dated 1921. |