XD32B/32
BUNDLE of correspondence mainly from William Wilmot, Coventry, and Bedford Hotel, Covent Garden, [London], and Grasmere, to C.W.G. [Charles Wynne Griffith] Wynne, 39 Portman Square, London, and Voelas, Pentre Voelas (by Corwen), North Wales, mainly concerning Pooley Colliery, including a letter from Thomas Wilmot, Coventry, to C.W.G. Wynne, giving his opinion on probable value of coal mining at Pooley, 1832; exchange of land with Rev. Mr. Andrews, 1846-1847; Pooley tithe commutation (parish of Polesworth), 1846-1848; letter from B.W. Lumley, Newton, Bedale, Yorkshire, concerning the lease of Pooley Colliery; Mr. Thomas’s lease of Pooley Colliery and its development, 1847-1848; carriage of coal by Grand Junction Canal Co., 1848; possibility of branch railway from North West Railway Co.’s Trent Valley line to Pooley Colliery, 1848; potato disease 1848; correspondence from Charles Wynne, 39 Portman Square, [London], to his father [C.W.G. Wynne], reporting on a visit to Pooley Colliery, 1848, and giving family news; proposed carriage of coal by Coventry Canal Co., 1850; Pentrevoelas Court [Leet/Baron], 1850; effect of railways on market for Warwickshire coal 1851; election of a ’Brummagen Radical’ at Coventry, 1851; change of Ministry and prospects for agriculturalists, 1852; discussion of laws re gamekeepers and their dogs, 1858.
Cyngor Gwynedd