1803

• Coal proved by a borehole 1/4 mile north of Pleasley bridge.
• Hollins Co. install a Boulton and Watt steam engine in the lower mill in  Pleasley Vale

1809

• Bache Thornhill gives Pleasley Manor to his eldest son - Henry Bache Thornhill (who had married Helen Pole in 1801)

1811

• Pleasley parish (Pleasley, Shirebrook, Stoney Houghten) contained about 90 houses

1816

• Sunday, March 17th.  Earthquake felt throught the East Midlands causes large crack in tower of St Michael’s church in Pleasley

1821

• Henry Bache Thornhill makes a will - which included his fathers estate in anticipation of his future inheritance.

1822

• Henry Bache Thornhill dies but his father is still alive and Pleasley Manor has to be sold in order to provide for his wife and family.

1823

• Pleasley Manor auctioned at the Swan Inn, Mansfield and purchased by William Edward Nightingale for £38,000 - with the exception of  the two  cotton mills, their  dams and 15 acres of land in Pleasley Vale - these were still under lease to Hollins Co.

1824

• Sale of Pleasley Manor to W. E. Nightingale completed.

1828

• The two  cotton mills, their  dams and 15 acres of land in Pleasley Vale were bought by the Hollins Company for £7,600 when the lease expired.

1839

• Hollins Co. purchase a “gas apparatus” in order to produce their own gas light for the Pleasley Vale mills.  They later supplied gas to Pleasley Colliery and to Pleasley village.

1840

• Hollins’ upper mill in Pleasley Vale destroyed by fire on Dec. 25th.

1844

• Hollins’ lower mill in Pleasley Vale destroyed by fire during the summer.