Forest of Dean Local History Society
New Fancy - Dates of Operation
The Protheroe family appear to have had interests in the New Fancy gale (a gale is an area of a coal seam or iron ore vein) since the early 1800’s. Read More
New Fancy - Life at Work
You might expect that working conditions and safety at work would have improved for miners by the late 1920’s when compared with previous times. However this was not necessarily so! Read More
New Fancy - The Closure and Afterwards
Nothing much happened until about 1960, when the development of the Llanwern steelworks in South Wales meant that there was demand for huge quantities of shale to stabilise the marshy... Read More
New Fancy - Visiting the Site
New Fancy amenity site is open daily to visitors between 8am and dusk. There is ample parking available on the site. Read More
New Fancy Colliery
John and then Edward Protheroe appear to have had interests in the New Fancy gale since the early 1800s, and it was certainly being worked by the latter in 1840... Read More
New Found Out Mine
New Found Out Pit was in existence by 1841, when it was producing 12 tons of coal per day, presumably from the Coleford High Delf Seam of the Pennant Group. Read More
New Inn Bream
A low ramshackle two storey block aligned North - South abuts a well built main wing of handsome proportions. Read More
New Regard
To accompany the set of annually published journals (The New Regard) produced by the History Society, a companion comprehensive index is also published annually, and is available for download here. Read More
Newbridge Engine Colliery
Newbridge Engine Colliery was working by 1833 when the owners proposed that the Forest of Dean Railway should extend its tramroad from Whimsey to the colliery. Read More
Newsletter Archive
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