Forest of Dean Local History Society
Fairplay Iron Mine
The most extensive remains of fairplay Mine are of a Cornish underbeam engine house over a masonry shaft about 350 feet deep. Read More
Fairplay Iron Mine Engine House
The most extensive remains of fairplay Mine are of a Cornish underbeam engine house over a masonry shaft about 350 feet deep. Read More
Favourite Mine
Favourite Mine is a free mine which worked coal seams in the Pennant Group (middle Upper Coal Measures) via a drift. Read More
Flaxley Abbey
Flaxley Abbey was originally a Cistercian monastery built in the vale of Castiard to commemorate the spot where, in 1143 in the reign of King Stephen, Milo Fitzwalter, Earl of... Read More
Flour Mill Colliery
Although Flour Mill was first galed in 1843, a chemical works had been built on the site by 1844. Read More
Forest House
Forest House is on Cinder Hill, Coleford. It was built in about 1795, with walls two feet thick. Read More
Foxes Bridge Colliery
The original Foxes Bridge Colliery of c.1837 was never completed, and in 1855 sinking of a new colliery began further north. Read More
Green Plaque - David Richard Organ (1876-1954)
David worked in the local pits from age 13, initially as a hodder in Oldcroft colliery and then at Parkend Deep where he was injured. Read More
Green Plaque - Dr ML Bangara (1881-1927)
Dr Mangalore Laxumana Bangara was born in Mangalore (now Mangaluru), Nr Madras, Karnataka, India. Read More
Green Plaque - Sir Francis Brain (1855-1921)
Sir Francis Brain was a pioneer in the application of electricity in coal mining, a ‘world first’. Read More