Operated Easton, Whitehall and Hanham Collieries in Bristol.
See Robert Leonard and William Boult
1836 Leonard, Boult and Co. formed following a merger between Davidson and Waters and Leonard, Betts and Boult's two collieries in Lower Easton. The new company traded as the Easton Coal Company.
1855 Partnership change. '... the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Robert Leonard, William Boult, and George Hare Leonard, of the city and county of Bristol, carrying on business at Easton, near Bristol aforesaid, as Coal Miners, under the firm of Leonard, Boult, and Company, is this day dissolved by mutual consent so far as concerns the said William Boult, who retires therefrom as and from the 31st day of March, 1854. All debts owing to and by the said Partnership will be received and paid respectively by the said Robert Leonard and George Hare Leonard, by whom the said business will in future be carried on...'[1]
1860s Established Whitehall Colliery
1872 Acquired Hanham Colliery.
1880s Acquired Pennywell Road Colliery
1879 December 24th. Registered as a limited company
1893 Resolution to wind up the business. George Hare Leonard is Chairman.[2]
1894 Became part of Bristol United Collieries