For Sale, The PONTYBODKIN OIL WORKS. Plant and Cannel Pits in the centre of the celebrated Leeswood Cannel Field. The Mold and Tryddyn Railway runs through the works. There are about five acres of Freehold and Leasehold surface land and 140 acres more or less on mineral land.
The reviving prospects of the Mineral Oil Trade, and the position and railway facilities of this property are worthy of attention. Terms and particulars can be had from Messes R.J. NORTH, G.J. SIMPSON. 17, Pavement, Finsbury, London E.C.
Wrexham Advertiser, 2nd October 1869.
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The London, Leeswood, and Erith Mineral Oil Company, Limited (in liquidation). Sale of valuable OIL WORKS and COLLIERY, situated at PONT-Y- BODKIN. LEESWOOD, near Mold, Flint- shire, together with the Land, Plant, Machinery, and Utensils belonging thereto, in one Lot.
MESSRS CHURTON and ELPHICK respectfully, announce that they have received instructions to SELL by AUCTION, at the QUEEN HOTEL, City of CHESTER, in or about April, 1870, and subject to such conditions as shall then be produced : — All those valuable OIL WORKS and COLLIERY, extending in the whole to about four acres of laud, or thereabouts, together with the whole of the Erections, Plants, Machinery, loose utensils, and all other effects, on the premises, amongst which will be found two winding engines and boilers, donkey engine, railway rails, chairs, spikes, - fish plates, iron, steel, retorts, tanks, stills, condensers, furnaces. weighing machine, casks, bricks, pumps, and a variety of other effects, which will be more fully described in the particulars shortly to be issued. Also the Company's Interest in the Minerals under about 6.5 acres of land at Leeswood. The above property is well situated, and has sidings into the branch railway from the Mold and Chester railway. Mr William Davies, at the works, will show the property
Wrexham Advertiser, 26th March 1870.