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1890 May Yorkshire Coalowners & Local Wages Questions – Important Resolution.
1894 Jan A Disastrous Year
1899 Aug South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade
1907 Feb Sale of valuable freehold building land, situated Goldthorpe,
1907 Apr County Council Election
1907 Jul New South Yorkshire Railways – Features of The Dearne Valley Line.
1907 Jul Village Tragedy – Goldthorpe Sensation Inquest.
1907 Nov Radical Hypocrisy Exposed.
1909 Apr Goldthorpe Miner’s Violent End
1909 Apr The Elections – Bolton & Goldthorpe
1909 Jul New Pit at Goldthorpe
1909 Sep Hickleton Miner Buried – “I am done.”
1909 Sep Killed in Hickleton Main Colliery
1909 Oct Hull Coal Traffic – September the Best Month of the Year.
1909 Dec New Collieries – Extensions in Mexborough District (map)
1910 Jul A Growing District
1917 Jan Fourteen Year Old Pony Driver is First Fatal Accident
1917 Feb Boom in Colliery Villages and Towns
1917 Oct Offences in Coal Mines – Large Number of Defendants At Doncaster
1917 Oct Removing Portion of Safety Lamp
1917 Oct Obstinate Pit Hand – Goldthorpe Man fined at Doncaster.
1917 Nov Corporal’s Terrible Death.
1918 Jan Food Control – Barnburgh’s Communal Feeding
1918 Feb Goldthorpe Miner Killed – Men Work To Show Sympathy
1918 May Pony Driver Killed by 5 Tons of Roof
1918 Jul Checkweighman Case – At the House of Commons
1918 Jul Checkweighman Case – Charge Against Barmbro’ Checkweighman – Liability for Service.
1918 Aug Checkweighman’s Appeal
1918 Aug Cruelty To A Horse – Animal Dies Through Brutal Ill-Treatment.
1918 Oct Unruly Boy – Row in the Goldthorpe Pit.
1919 Feb Illegal Footwear Competition – Boot Trade and Blackleg Repairing
1919 Mar Mass Meeting of Miners at Goldthorpe
1919 Mar County Elections. – Public Apathy. – Local Labour Successes.
1919 Apr Bolton’s 247 Houses.
1919 Apr New Chairman – Bolton-on-Dearne Urban Council.
1919 May Pony Driver Killed
1919 May An Ambulance “Skipper”
1919 May National Kitchen at Goldthorpe
1919 May Colliery Case Dismissed.
1919 Jun Sale of Freehold Property
1919 Jun Barnburgh Colliery Ambulance Team
1919 Jun National Kitchen, Goldthorpe.
1919 Jul Complained of Pain in Back and Died
1919 Jul Manvers Main Fatality – Goldthorpe Miner Killed through a “Bump.”
1919 Jul Coal Strike Local Situation – Industry Running Down. Mines Calm & Orderly
1919 Jul Coal Miner’s Strike – Mines Quickly Flooding.
1919 Jul Goldthorpe Houses
1919 Jul Soldiers Raid Socialist Meeting.
1919 Aug Yorkshire Coal Strike – Definite Settlement. – Work Resumed on Monday
1919 Aug Yorkshire Coal Strike – 3rd Week of Dispute – Mass Meetings in District
1919 Oct Don and Dearne Valley Borough Councils
1919 Oct Goldthorpe’s National Kitchen.
1919 Nov Dearne Valley Progress – Extensive Municipal Trading Projected.
1919 Dec Bolton Council and a Sir Tudor Waiters Suggestion. – Houses Fit For Heroes
1919 Dec Brickworks for Bolton – Lead Given the Country In Public Ownership.
1920 May Orders against Miners For Strike Relief.
1920 Oct The Datum Ballot – Heavy Adverse Vote
1920 Nov Coal Strike Ended- Work Resumed Yesterday
1921 Jan Goldthorpe Boy Killed by Runaway Tubs.
1921 Jan Hull Coal Trade.
1927 Jan New Water Tower
1927 Mar An Active Octogenerian – Goldthorpe Worthy’s Varied Career
1927 Mar Rivals – Buses and Trams !
1927 May Motor Accident – Councillor in Hospital
1927 Oct Fall of 40 Tons – Engine Man’s Graphic Story of Pit Accident.
1927 Dec Another Tragedy for Family
1927 Dec Dearne Valley Trade Review
1928 Jan Cancer and Tuberculosis Warning
1928 Mar Fatal Familiarity – Life Lost to Save Two Minutes
1928 Mar County Councillor for Aldermanic Bench
1928 May Power Station Tragedy – Shocking Accident – Bridegroom’s Fate.
1928 Jun Promotion to Peterborough
1928 Sep Jerked To Roof – Goldthorpe Boy Killed by Haulage Rope – Barnburgh Accident
1928 Sep Coal Trade Outlook – Hopeful Signs at South Yorkshire Pits – Five Counties Scheme.
1928 Oct 1,000 Empty Houses – Coal Developments Which Failed to Materialise.
1928 Nov “The Toilers”
1928 Nov “The Toilers.” The Miner at Work and Play. A Coalfield Film.
1928 Dec  Mining Deaths – Mystery of Goldthorpe Accident.
1929 Overcharging – Goldthorpe Butcher Heavily Fined.
1929 Jan Property for Sale
1929 Feb Important Compensation Point – Award in Goldthorpe Miner’s Favour
1929 Feb No Slums or Squalor – Ideal Colliery District.
1929 Mar Coal Boom – Brisk Trade in South Yorkshire – All Pits Busy.
1929 Mar Candidates for the Councils – South Yorkshire Urban & Rural Nominations
1929 Apr Advert – Meat Famine – T.W.Downs & Sons
1929 Apr The New Chairmen – South Yorkshire Civic Leaders
1929 May Miner’s Life Lost Through Error of Judgment.
1929 May Trapped By Tubs – Mexborough Youth Killed in Barnburgh Mine – Shocking Injuries.
1929 Jun New School at Goldthorpe.
1929 Jul Jumped the Wrong Way – Goldthorpe Miner Caught by a Bump
1929 Aug Goldthorpe Miner’s Death – A Year-Old Accident Injury
1929 Aug Goldthorpe Contractor’s £20 Fine – National Health Insurance Offences
1929 Sep Minister of Mines At Barnburgh
1929 Sep The New Councillors – Men & Women Who Won First Victories
1930 Sep “Bolscoe”
1930 Sep Bolton U.D.C. – Proposal to Amalgamate With Thurnscoe, Barnburgh and Hickleton.
1930 Oct Fatal Accidents – Killed at Denaby and Barnbro’
1930 Dec Disastrous Explosion at Houghton Main – Five Dead: Twelve Injured.
1930 Dec Trade Review – Don and Dearne Valleys – Prospects None Too Bright.
1937 Jan Traders Celebrate
1937 Mar Dearne UDC – South Yorkshire’s Newest Council – Election Results
1937 Apr Coronation Draw
1937 Jun Goldthorpe Bungalow Scheme
1937 Aug Appointment to Lloyd Perran Ironstone Mine in Cornwall
1937 Oct West Riding Chamber of Trade at Goldthorpe
1937 Nov Killed By Fall – Inquest on Goldthorpe Pit Boy
1937 Dec Visitor to Goldthorpe – John McGovern
1938 Jan Hickleton Pit Strike Ended
1938 Mar New Branch Libraries
1938 Mar Traders’ Complaint – Candidate to Urge Better Lighting
1938 Mar Gaol For Miner – Mottying Offence at Goldthorpe
1938 Apr Miners’ Strike at Barnborough – Some 2,000 Workers Affected
1938 Apr Truce in Barnborough Main Dispute
1938 Apr New Councillor – George Salisbury
1938 May Barnborough Closed – Hickleton Starts Short-time
1938 Aug Traders Hit Dearne – District Pit Stoppages
1938 Oct Wonderful Old Lady
1938 Oct Bank Changes – Popular Manager leaves Goldthorpe for Wath
1938 Oct Goldthorpe National Provincial Bank Change
1938 Oct Miner Killed at Goldthorpe Main Colliery
1938 Oct Barnboro’ Main Pit Re-Opening
1938 Oct Goldthorpe Colliery Company Ltd
1938 Oct Barnboro’ Main Pit Re-Opening
1938 Nov Fatal Accident In Pit
1938 Nov Starting at the Bottom – Prospective Don Valley Candidate
1938 Nov Interdepartmental Trophy Presented to Colliery Cricket Team
1938 Dec Two Killed In Coal Fall at a South Yorkshire Pit
1938 Dec Barnburgh Main Pensions Fund
1938 Dec Firemen Resign – Goldthorpe Men Object to Training Proposal
1939 Feb Highgate Youth Killed At Hickleton – Damaged Tub Brings Down Roof
1939 Feb A.R.P. Social Club Committee
1939 Feb First A.R.P. Queen – Goldthorpe Leads the Way
1939 Mar So Big – Barnburgh Main Colliery Chimney
1939 Mar Accountant To Retire – Over Thirty Years’ Loyal Service
1939 Apr At Colliery A Day.
1939 Apr New Councillors – New Dearne Councillors
1939 Jun “Dirty Trick” – Goldthorpe Man Admits Mottying
1939 Jul Goldthorpe Miner Killed At Barnburgh Colliery – Accident No One Saw
1939 Aug Relinquishing Public Appointments
1939 Oct Gallant Rescue – Goldthorpe Youth Rewarded – Two Saved From River Dearne
1940 Feb The Happiest Pace in Goldthorpe
1947 Jan NCB flag goes up at the Pits – Vesting Ceremonies in the Districts
1947 Jan South Yorkshire Pit Disasters
1947 Jan The Birth of a Coalfield – Looking Back 150 years
1947 Feb Two New Factories for Dearne
1947 Apr Reward for Good Work (video)
1947 May Dearne Valley Towns and Collieries in 1947
1947 May Joe Baski Tours Pits – Eventful Afternoon in South Yorkshire
1947 May Splendid Service During Blizzard – Newsagents Never Failed
1947 May Five Day Week – Early Impressions Favourable
1947 May Five Day Week – Early Reports
1947 May Goldthorpe Chamber of Trade Dinner Dance – First Post-War
1947 Sep Strike Now Costs 60,000 Tons of Coal Daily – 42 Pits and 50,000 Men Involved – Government May Intervene
1947 Dec Number 3 Output Best Ever
1948 Jan 50 p.c. Absent at Some Yorkshire Pits
1948 Jan Former Highgate Director’s Trip to U.S.A.
1948 Feb Leaving Barnburgh
1948 Feb Textile Specials
1948 Apr Dearne Valley Building Employers Confederation Dinner
1948 Apr Goldthorpe’s Latest Factory
1948 Apr Dearne Councillor Candidates
1948 Jun National Coal Board New Policy
1948 Jun “Worms in Water – Specimens Shown – “No Bacterial Effect”
1948 Sep “Next Please!”
1948 Nov Pit Strike Ends
1949 Mar £90,000 Mine Winder – Coming to Barnburgh Main For £23,000
1949 Mar Nominations for April Elections – Many Unopposed Returns
1949 May Who’s Who in To-morrow’s Urban Council Elections – Twenty Candidates
1949 Sep Factory Outing to Blackpool
1950 Jan Hickleton Main Deputies, Officials and Friends Dinner
1950 Apr More Coal Queens – Area Final at Wath Next Month
1950 Dec Absentees Kept Pits Closed – 50,000 Took An Extra Day
1957 Mar Citation for First Aider
1957 Mar George Wigfield (Advert)
1957 Mar Goldthorpe & District Chamber of Trade Annual Dinner
1957 Mar Hoover Advert and Agents in Goldthorpe
1957 May New Councillors
1957 Jun Barnburgh Main Pit Blast – 20 Miners Burned
1957 Jun Fashion Show
1957 Jul Barnburgh Pit Blast – One Man Leaving Hospital – Death Roll now 4
1957 Aug Another Victim of Barnburgh Pit Disaster – Death Toll Now Six
1957 Sep Pit Baths in use at Goldthorpe
1957 Oct Goldthorpe Welfare Hall Fashion Parade
1957 Nov Flash From Damaged Cable Was Cause of Barnburgh Pit Explosion
1958 Feb Dearne U.D.C. Chairman’s Dinner and Ball
1958 Sep Get Your Hoover Now !
1958 Nov Dearne Labour Party Dearne Federation – Mexborough Bazaar
1958 Nov Dearne Labour Party Women’s Section – Mexborough Bazaar
1959 Jan Goldthorpe Miners in Road Mishap
1959 Jan National Savings Rowley Cup
1959 Jan Barnburgh Pit Gets a Million Tons
1959 Jan District Industrial Leaders Look Ahead Confidently
1959 Feb National Union of Teachers Dinner Dance
1959 Mar Barnburgh Colliery General Knowledge Knockout “Quiz”
1959 Mar Barnburgh Main Sports Queen
1959 Apr Labour Party at Goldthorpe
1959 Aug Barnburgh Fatality – ‘Difficult to Understand What Could Have Happened’
1959 Aug Third Time Unlucky – Pit Accident Victim Had Been Injured Twice Before
1959 Aug Barnburgh Main Colliery Retirements
1959 Sep “Accidental Death” Verdict – Goldthorpe Man Killed in Barnburgh Pit Mishap
1959 Sep Barnburgh Colliery Sports Club
1959 Sep Colliery Sports Club Pigeon Race Winner
1959 Sep “What’s my Line?” at Waterstone Glassware
1959 Sep General Municipal Workers’ Union Long Service Award
1959 Oct Dearne Council Offices
1967 Jan 1967 Budget for New Developments In Dearne
1967 Jan Retiring after 30 Years at Barnburgh
1967 Jan Retiring after 30 Years at Barnburgh
1967 Jan Trend Setting Tailoring comes to Goldthorpe
1967 Feb Ivor’s Fresh Oven Roast Chickens (Advert)
1967 Mar Dearne Council Chairman’s Dinner-Ball
1967 Aug New unit is one of the 50 “top pits” – Scheduled for a Visit by Lord Robens in November
1967 Oct Barnburgh Colliery Safety Exhibition
1967 Oct Barnburgh Colliery Swimming Gala
1967 Nov Ratepayers’ Association Annual Dinner
1967 Nov “New Look” For Interior of Goldthorpe Shop Premises
1967 Nov Retirement After 50 Years at Barnburgh Main
1967 Nov The Best Future of Any Coalfield – Lord Robens Visits Goldthorpe
1967 Dec An Air of the Banks of the Nile at Goldthorpe
1967 Dec Ena Sharples at Goldthorpe
1968 Feb Photo Brought Back Pleasant Memories
1968 Jul Goldthorpe Shopping – H Crosby & Co Ltd
1968 Sep Dearne Urban Council’s House Gardens Competition
1968 Oct Barnburgh Main Colliery Retirement Presentation
1969 Jan Death of Mr. Percy Phillipson
1969 Jan Dearne UDC Chairman’s Dinner Ball
1969 Jan Goldthorpe Colliery Angling Club Prize Night
1969 Jan Pit Angling Club Prize night
1969 Mar Barnburgh Officials’ Social Club
1969 Jul Retirement Presentation at National Provincial Bank
1969 Aug Colleagues Raise Their Glasses.
1969 Sep £2,500,000 Manvers Plan Will Be Boost To Three Area Collieries.
1969 Oct Fashion Show by Mary Berry of Goldthorpe
1969 Oct Serious Effects of The Strike
1969 Nov At a Glance Guide to Goldthorpe shopping
1969 Nov Goldthorpe Shopping – View of the Centre
1969 Nov Goldthorpe Shopping – Chamber of Trade President
1969 Nov Goldthorpe Shopping – Ken Ellis (advert)
1969 Nov Goldthorpe Shopping –Mary Berry (Advert)
1969 Nov Dearne Ratepayers Association Dinner
1970 Jan “Miss Albion 1970”
1970 Jan Manvers Coking Plant’s Children’s Party