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Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Earth Tremour
1890 May    Yorkshire Coalowners & Local Wages Questions – Important Resolution.
1892 Apr    South Yorkshire and the Hull Coal Trade – The Miners’ “Stop” Week
1892 Aug    Hull Coal Trade – Falling Off of the Traffic.
1892 Nov    South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade
1892 Dec    Commercial Trade in 1892
1893 Jan    District Trade in 1892
1893 Aug    Scenes at Denaby Main Colliery – Arrival of Military and Magistrates – Alarming Rumours.
1894 Jan    A Disastrous Year.
1899 Aug    South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade
1902 May    Fatal Accident at Manvers Main
1902 Sep    The Hull Coal Trade – Serious Decline of Traffic.
1907 Aug    Pit Lad’s Sad Mishap at Hickleton Main
1909 Oct    Hull Coal Traffic – September the Best Month of the Year.
1911 Oct    The Coal Output – Still a Big Deficiency.
1912 Feb    Hull Coal Traffic – A Slightly Increased Tonnage.
1912 Mar    National Coal Strike – Premier’s Important Statement – Government Favour Minimum Wage.
1912 Mar    The National Coal Strike – How the Local Firms Stand
1912 Mar    The National Coal Strike – Situation at the Local Collieries
1912 Oct    Cruelty to a Pit Pony.
1917 Feb    Fatal Accident at Manvers Main
1917 Oct    Offences in Coal Mines – Large Number of Defendants At Doncaster
1919 Jul    Wath Main Accident – Death from Injuries.
1919 Jul    Coal Strike Local Situation – Industry Running Down. Mines Calm & Orderly
1919 Jul    Coal Miner’s Strike – Mines Quickly Flooding.
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 Dec    Mexboro’ Miner Killed at Manvers Main.
1920 Nov    Coal Strike Ended- Work Resumed Yesterday
1921 Jan    Hull Coal Trade.
1921 Apr    Federation Secretary’s Sombre Outlook – Appeal to Yorkshire Men – “A Great Sacrifice.”
1921 Apr    The Triple Alliance. – Manifesto Gives Case for Stoppage.
1921 May    Mining Strike – Over 4 Million Unemployed
1921 May    Strike in Seventh Week
1922 Dec    Trade Review – Don and Dearne Valley.
1927 Jul    Miner Killed at Barnburgh
1927 Dec    Dearne Valley Trade Review 1927
1928 May    Bars Or Props? Which Are Safer In Coal Mines?
1928 Aug    Bolton Aspirations – District Big Enough for Midland or Central League Football.
1928 Oct    1,000 Empty Houses – Coal Developments Which Failed to Materialise.
1929 Mar    Coal Boom – Brisk Trade in South Yorkshire – All Pits Busy.
1929 May    Trapped By Tubs – Mexborough Youth Killed in Barnburgh Mine – Shocking Injuries.
1930 Oct    Fatal Accidents – Killed at Denaby and Barnbro’
1931 Nov    Has The Tide Turned? – Trade Review – Coal, Iron & Steel, Brass, Glass, Soaps & Oils
1932 Jan    Casualty List of 1931
1932 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Deputy at Montagu
1932 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – The First Man Rescued
1932 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – What Rescuers Had To Face
1932 Nov    Light on The Coal Quota – Collapse of the Export Trade
1933 Jan    Steel Props – Lightning Strike At Barnburgh – Order Disobeyed
1934 Jan    Good News for Wombwell District – Increased Tonnage
1934 Jan    Work-Sharing – Spreading In Local Collieries
1938 Jan    Pit Boy’s Death – Worked While Suffering from Pneumonia
1938 Mar    Long Service – 55 years with One Firm
1938 May    Barnborough Closed – Hickleton Starts Short-time
1938 Aug    Traders Hit – Dearne District Pit Stoppages
1938 Oct    Barnboro’ Main Pit Re-Opening
1939 Jan    Death of Mother Kept From Son
1939 Mar    Would Not Work With Him – He Robbed Comrade in Pit
1941 Sep    Manvers Main Accident – One Dead: One in Hospital
1942 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Sympathy With District – Mine Minister’s Message
1942 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Men Involved
1942 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Six Feet High Plane Reduced To a Foot
1942 May    Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – The Last Two
1942 May    South Yorkshire Colliery Disasters
1942 Jun    Causes of Barnburgh Disaster “Without Precedent in This Country”
1942 Sep    Mr. Hall Speaks Out
1944 Apr    Chaos in the Coalfield
1944 Apr    Chaos in the Coalfield
1947 Jan    NCB flag goes up at the Pits – Vesting Ceremonies in the Districts
1947 Jan    The Birth of a Coalfield – Looking Back 150 years
1947 May    Dearne Valley Towns and Collieries in 1947
1947 May    Five Day Week – Early Impressions Favourable
1947 Aug    Protest Over Coal Board Pit Strike
1948 Mar    Miners Stay Out – Barnburgh pay dispute
1948 Nov    Pit Strike Ends
1949 Jan    New Open-Cast Sites 
1950 Jul    They May Be Miners M.P. In The Future
1951 Feb    Obituary – Mr. Charles Hanmer – Mining Film Pioneer (video)
1951 Aug    Goldthorpe Hit Target
1951 Aug    Tonnage Halved
1951 Nov    Barnburgh Pit Output Cut By Wath Strike!
1951 Dec    From Mr. J. A. Hall, C.B.E., J.P., Yorkshire Miners President
1951 Dec    Holiday Hangover
1957 Jun    Barnburgh Main Pit Blast – 20 Burned
1957 Jul    Barnburgh Pit Blast – One Man Leaving Hospital – Death Roll now 4
1957 Nov    Flash From Damaged Cable Was Cause of Barnburgh Pit Explosion
1959 Jan    District Industrial Leaders Look Ahead Confidently
1960 Mar    Barnburgh Pit Fatality – Bolton Married Man is Victim
1960 May    Play Weeks At Pits – South Yorkshire Collieries
1960 Aug    National Coal Board (advert)
1960 Aug    National Coal Board (advert)
1969 Oct    Serious Effects of The Strike
1970 Apr    Frontless Home Has ‘Em Looking Twice
1970 Apr    In The Coal Queen Quest
1970 Apr    Dearne Community & Miners’ Welfare Theatrical Section
1970 May    Walking on Cotton Wool – Pathologist at pit death inquest
1970 Jun    Variety of Jobs in Mining (advert)