It produces more than a million tonnes of coal a year, but at its peak produced twice that amount. The colliery was sunk in 1908 on the outskirts of Maltby in South Yorkshire. Three years later a ...

A memorial to a group of miners killed in an explosion at a colliery more than 90 years ago has been unveiled. Twenty-seven men died while working at Maltby Colliery, near Rotherham, on 28 July, 1923.

A Maltby councillor has called for Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to review reclamation plans for the town’s former colliery, over health and safety fears. Did you know with a Digital ...

The Environment Agency says it is investigating the material used to fill the former Maltby Colliery as part of a restoration scheme. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you ...

A recreation ground in Maltby will remain as an open space for residents says a coal charity boss, after concerns were raised by the local MP over the closure of a charity which managed the site. Did ...

UK Coal PLC27 February 2007 27 February, 2007 UK COAL PLC ("UK COAL") Sale of Maltby Colliery UK COAL announces that its subsidiary, UK Coal Mining Limited ("UKCML") hastoday completed the sale of its ...

Workers at Maltby Colliery in Rotherham, one of the last deep coal mines left in the country, have been issued with potential redundancy notices. The site employs about 500 staff. Owner Hargreaves ...

Campaigners from the Socialist Equality Party are circulating this leaflet at Maltby Colliery and the nearby village of the same name. Maltby is one of the four remaining deep mines in the UK. It is ...

Hundreds of miners working at a deep coal pit in South Yorkshire have been given a 90-day notice of redundancy. About 540 staff at Maltby Colliery, near Rotherham, have been told of the decision by ...

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