Moresby Coal Co
Moresby Coal Co
1877 Moresby Coal Company Limited (Company No: 11719) incorporated 22 Sep 1877 with capital of £100,000 in 100 x £1,000 shares.[1] Objects, to acquire from the Earl of Lonsdale mines in the townships of Distington, Moresby, Hensingham, and Weddicar, according to an agreement for lease made between the Earl of Lonsdale and Messrs. William Fletcher and J. S. Simpson. [2] Lease dated 25 Mar 1877, for a term of 60 years.[3]
1877 Proved Main Band coal seam 6.5ft thick at Walkmill and Fairfield.[4]
1878 Coal Royalty of 4,000 acres (from Earl of Lonsdale) containing seams suitable for coking.[5] Walkmill pit sunk and raising coal by end of 1878; known as Moresby Colliery and/or Walkmill Colliery.
1880 A second pit was sunk near Fairfield, named the Oatlands Colliery.
1951 One of the companies nationalised as part of the nationalisation of the iron and steel industry[6]
1954 One of the United Steel companies returned to private ownership[7]
1954 Resolution to wind up the company voluntarily agreed at an EGM on 6 Aug 1954.[8]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Midland & Northern Coal & Iron Trades Gazette - 10 Oct 1877
- ↑ Cumberland Pacquet - 2 Oct 1877
- ↑ West Cumberland Coal, Oliver Wood, published 1988
- ↑ West Cumberland Times - 10 Nov 1877
- ↑ West Cumberland Times - 13 Apr 1878
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette 23 February 1951
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette 26 March 1954
- ↑ London Gazette - 17 Aug 1954