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The first shafts at Maltby Main Colliery were sunk in 1910, [1] and the first coal produced in 1912, though not all faces were in production until 1914. [2] Situated in a wooded area on Tickhill Road the colliery was some distance from the township of Maltby and in order to gain a workforce the colliery company commissioned the building of Maltby Model Village, an estate of 400 houses. [3]
Maltby is a former mining town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It was historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is located 6 miles (10 km) east of Rotherham and 10 miles (16 km) north-east of Sheffield. It forms a continuous urban area with Hellaby, separated from the rest of Rotherham ...
[27] [28] Latterly, Maltby Main Colliery was owned by various concerns with the final owners, Hargreaves, also owning Monckton Coke Works. [29] Maltby produced over 1,000,000 tonnes (1,100,000 tons) of coal a year, of which 25% went to Monckton (the other 75% was used in the power generating industry, typically being sent to Drax Power Station).
Maltby signal box which controlled train entry into and out of the colliery at Maltby is still operating and is the last mechanical Great Central type 5 designed signal box left on the line (built 1912), This box is actually within the town of Doncaster's boundary – so technically the box is the last mechanical signal box still in operation ...
The club was established in 1916 as Maltby Main, with the players all working at Maltby Main Colliery. [2] They joined the Sheffield Association League in 1919 when it restarted after World War I , and were runners-up in 1923–24 before winning back-to-back league titles in 1925–26 and 1926–27. [ 2 ]
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The Battle of Orgreave came amidst events that caused tensions to escalate in the Yorkshire coalfield. In Maltby, roughly 6 miles (9.7 km) from Orgreave, a large group of young mineworkers besieged the town's police station on Saturday, 9 June. There was a heavy police response that left the town cordoned off for several days and created local ...
In 1984, the Yorkshire area had a total of 56 collieries. The last deep coal mine was Kellingley Colliery which closed on Friday 18 December 2015 signalling the end of deep coal mining not only in Yorkshire but in Britain as a whole. [1] Hatfield Colliery closed in mid 2015.