Ffeil ABL 6/4 - Ystradgynlais mineral leases

Letters and related papers relating to the 1892 transfer of George Simpson's 1892 lease of the seams of coal comprising the Aber-craf colliery to the International Water & Sewerage Purification Co. Ltd. In 1893 the lease was sub-let to La Campagne Francaise des Anthracites du Pays de Galles. Papers relating to the 1898 sale by Henry Farnham Burke of his 1892 lease of the adjoining Aber-craf collieries to Messrs Francois Felix Depeaux of Rouen, France, merchant, the grant in 1899 of a new lease, and a dispute relating to the drainage of water between the two collieries. Papers relating to Drym colliery, let to Messrs Andrews, Davies & Dupont, who went into liquidation on 9 May 1904, after which the colliery was re-let to the Dulais Anthracite Collieries Co. (established 1905).