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Location of the Bandstand RA 26 November 1955
Catholic Church
Furnishings for New RC Church RA 1 October 1955
Opening of St Mary Magdalene Church (RC) RA 15 October 1955
St Mary Magdalene Church (RC) licensed for marriages RA 22 October 1955
Charities
Maltby Charities distribute funds RA 17 December 1955
Church of England
Appointment of Director of Parish Music for Parish Church RA 20 November 1954
Church of the Venerable Bede vicar resigns RA 4 December 1998
YP 4 December 1998
Vandalism at St. Bartholomew's RA 26 June 1998
Churches
Rev. K.C.Hill licensed as priest for New Maltby RA 18 May 1935
Church to use ambulance centre RA 22 October 1955
Assembly of God Church licensed for marriages RA 22 October 1955
Golden Jubilee - Church of the Ascension RA 2 June 1962
Ascension Church available for community groups RA 21 June 1996
Crime
Concern over vigilante response to drug dealers Star 13 November 1996
Community groups established to clear streets of drugs Star 21 November 1996
Work starts on CCTV installation Record 15 October 1997
Development and Improvement
Proposal to create a Millennium Green RA 13 November 1998
Donoghue, John
Maltby Hero who saved two children RA 15 November 1996
Education - Primary School
Maltby Manor Infants School gets Ofsted award RA 5 July 1996
Photograph of Maltby Hall School in 1927 RA 4 October 1996
Lilly Hall Junior School Ofsted report RA 27 September 1996
Maltby Crags Infant School Ofsted report RA 31 January 1997
Fundraisers reach target to build a fence for
Maltby Hall Infants RA 14 November 1997
Manor Junior School criticised in Ofsted report RA 20 March 1998
Education - Secondary
New addition to Grammar Schools' Modern Art Collection RA 13 November 1965
1940 photograph of Maltby Hall Girls School RA 30 August 1996
Comprehensive pupils win Young Film Maker competition Star 11 December 1996
1952 Photograph of Grammar School rounders team RA 7 February 1997
Pupils running protection racket to be excluded Star 27 March 1998
Pupils excluded for bullying RA 3 April 1998
Arson damage at Maltby Comprehensive YP 10 December 1998
Record 16 December 1998
Investigation into Arson Attack RA 18 December 1998
Headmaster urges Arson witnesses to come forward Record 23 December 1998
Edward Dunn Memorial Hall
Opening of the Edward Dunn Memorial Hall RA 11 December 1954
Funds for alterations to the Edward Dunn Memorial Hall RA 10 December 1955
Proposal for Age Concern to manage Memorial Hall RA 17 January 1997
Employment
Ordnance Factory Workers to fight closure RA 20 July 1957
Maltby Brick Company to close RA 16 August 1996
New jobs for miners at Response Environmental Services RA 6 March 1998
Supermarket chain proposal to build a branch in Maltby RA 28 August 1998
Footpaths
Footpath closures RMBC Minutes 27 July 1998
Greystones Nursing Home
Sale Notice - Greystones Nursing Home RA 27 September 1996
Health
Maltby Drug Awareness Group set up RA 25 April 1997
Hooton Levitt Hall
Hooton Levitt Hall - attempted sale RA 17 September 1955
Housing
White City Estate: Public meeting about the estate RA 12 July 1996
RA 26 July 1996
White City Estate: Proposals to improve estate RA 26 July 1996
White City Estate: Community Association to redecorate RA 13 September 1996
Maintenance problems in Churchill Avenue housing RA 10 January 1997
White City Estate: refurbishment starts RA 31 January 1997
White City Estate: houses demolished on Stanford Close RA 14 March 1997
Policy to evict anti-social tenants RA 28 August 1998
Legal Affairs
Firebomb attack on Maltby Progressive Club Star 5 March 1996
Maltby Legal Centre is now open Record 26 June 1996
Library
Victorian Theme to be held at Easter Star 12 March 1996
RA 15 March 1996
Who's who guide for clubs and organisations RA 4 October 1996
Maltby library computerised Star 2 April 1997
RA 4 April 1997
Computer room opens in library RA 19 September 1997
Video loan service extended Star 9 October 1997
Children's book festival RA 2 October 1998
Local Government
Tender accepted for new shops on Cliff Hills Estate RA 23 December 1954
Woman Councillor retires (Mrs E Jones) RA 10 March 1956
Proposals for a parish or town Council RA 14 November 1997
Residents vote for town Council RA 28 November 1997
Councillor calls for objection to Mail order establishment RA 18 December 1998
Manor House
Tender for demolition of 'Manor House' RA 3 December 1955
Miners Institute
Cash discrepancies RA 26 April 1996
Police investigate missing cash RA 3 May 1996
Mines and Mining - Accidents
Inquest in to death (John Wilson) Record 18 June 1997
RJB Mining launch investigation into miner's death Record 17 September 1997
Inquest into Miner's death (K. Flanaghan) RA 19 September 1997
Mines and Mining - Closure
Colliery manager warns pit may close unless output rises RA 9 October 1992
Maltby to be put on care and maintenance RA 16 October 1992
Miners reaction to pit closures RA 16 October 1992
Miners organise campaign to fight pit closures Star 19 October 1992
Independent review of closure plans by John T Boyd Star 23 January 1993
Article on closure plans and the impact on the community Independent 30 January 1993
Maltby Pit to be used for development work Star 26 March 1993
Rotherham Council response to re-development Star 26 March 1993
NUM report that Maltby will close at the end of April Star 30 March 1993
Rotherham Council call for inquiry Star 31 March 1993
Local MP's protest against closure Star 1 April 1993
Kevin Barron MP protests against closure RA 2 April 1993
Closure plans to be referred to Auditor General Star 2 April 1993
Kevin Barron MP calls for an investigation into the closure Record 7 April 1993
Leaflet campaign against the closure RA 16 April 1993
NUM report on workforce to be retained Star 20 April 1993
Reductions in wages for retained workforce Star 21 April 1993
House of commons debate closure plans Star 22 April 1993
Star 28 April 1993
Mines and Mining - Employment
Recruitment Advertisement RA 7 July 1962
Ten new trainees to start at Maltby Colliery RA 21 December 1990
Three Hundred jobs will be lost RA 30 October 1992
One thousand jobs may be lost RA 9 April 1993
Additional job losses RA 7 May 1993
Miners lobby parliament to safeguard jobs RA 1 August 1997
400 jobs to go RA 28 November 1997
Insufficient Coal Sales threaten jobs RA 28 November 1997
Moratorium on power stations will not safeguard jobs RA 5 December 1997
Plans for redundancies to be put on hold RA 12 December 1997
Mines and Mining - Health
Health concerns raised by expected pit closure Star 22 October 1992
Mines and Mining - Industrial Action
Report on 1989 miners' strike for a pit ambulance RA 9 November 1990
NUM urges miners to strike to prevent job losses RA 16 October 1992
Miners vote to strike RA 14 February 1997
Mines and Mining - Investment
Maltby Pit to receive cash injection Dinn. & Maltby Trader 3 January 1986
£170 million investment Star 3 February 1987
Investment in pit to include new gantries and a bunker Star 12 February 1988
Investment to make Maltby into a 2m tonne super pit RA 29 April 1988
Mines and Mining - Maltby Main Colliery
Sacked miners re-instated RA 1 August 1986
New friction winding engines installed Maltby Guardian 21 February 1987
Star 29 April 1987
New super shaft to start winding coal Star 26 September 1988
Neil Kinnock and MP Kevin Barron visits pit RA 14 October 1988
Visit to new number three shaft RA 21 October 1988
Mining experts report that coal is being sold at low prices Star 7 April 1991
Maltby awarded BS5750 Star 22 January 1992
Report on Pits contribution to local community Star 4 June 1992
Mayor of St. Quentin tour of Maltby Main RA 26 June 1992
Nominated for National Award for Community involvement RA 25 September 1992
Miners win Award for Community involvement RA 19 October 1992
Maltby to start production in September Star 15 March 1994
Maltby pit to be back in production by October Star 21 September 1994
Revised Tipping Plans RA 3 October 1997
Mines and Mining - Output Records
Three year old productivity record broken RA 12 December 1986
Colliery breaks 6-year-old production record YP 5 March 1987
RA 6 March 1987
Miners break two records for productivity RA 23 October 1987
Weekly coal output record broken RA 2 September 1988
Coal output reaches one million tonne RA 1 March 1991
Mines and Mining - Privatisation
Neil Kinnock opposes privatisation SYT 4 November 1988
Miners await details on privatisation Star 4 June 1992
NUM consortium bids to run pit as private concern Star 25 May 1993
YP 25 May 1993
Record 26 May 1993
Consortium reveals bid has substantial financial backing Star 26 May 1993
Rotherham Council gives backing to consortium Star 27 May 1993
NUM provide details of the consortium bid RA 28 May 1993
Miners lobby Tory backbenchers support Star 28 May 1993
Consortium lobby British Coal to sell Maltby pit RA 4 June 1993
British Coal rejects consortium bid Star 14 June 1993
Experts appointed by the consortium identify new markets Star 5 July 1993
Consortium unveils new plans to British Coal Star 7 July 1993
RA 9 July 1993
Government criticised for rejecting consortium plan Star 9 July 1993
Consortium to re-launch bid for pit Star 6 April 1994
Star 7 April 1994
Government rejects buy out plans Star 14 April 1994
Government announce plans for sale of Coal Industry RA 15 April 1994
Arthur Scargill opposes consortium plans RA 20 May 1994
Kevin Baron MP visits pit now owned by RJB Mining Star 19 January 1996
RJB Mining denies rumours of closure plan Maltby & Dinn. Guardian 9 May 1997
Mines and Mining - Silverwood Colliery
New face to begin production RA 3 October 1986
Merger with Silverwood speculated Star 30 September 1993
NUM welcomes Silverwood merger Star 29 September 1993
Mixed reactions to Silverwood merger RA 1 October 1993
Jobs losses at Silverwood Star 14 January 1994
British Coal reveal merger details RA 4 February 1994
Police
Opposition to police recruitment RA 29 November 1996
Police investigating Under-age drinking RA 20 June 1997
Police rewarded for falling Crime figures Star 26 August 1997
Rolleston House
Sale Notice - Rolleston House RA 27 September 1996
Rolleston House residential home to close Star 20 March 1996
Royal Ordnance Factory
Opposition to closure of Royal Ordnance Factory RA 20 July 1957
Slade Hooton Hall Farm
Extensions to Slade Hooton Hall Farm RA 6 March 1998
Societies
Model Village Community Association formed RA 11 October 1996
Sports and Pastimes
Sports Centre to receive National Lottery Grant RA 24 May 1996
Sports Centre refurbishment RA 8 August 1997
Swimming
Swimming Pool re-opens after refurbishment RA 16 August 1996
Telephone Exchange
New telephone system almost completed RA 27 January 1962
Trade
Somerfield supermarket opens Record 10 July 1996
Kwik Save to close RA 15 November 1996
Shopping in Maltby Record 4 November 1998
Transport
Trolley bus poles to be removed RA 12 November 1955
Vandalism
Graffiti to be cleaned RA 17 January 1977
Water Supply
Removal of disused water tower at Lilly Hall Rd RA 10 January 1997
Welfare Institutions and Societies
Advice Centre extends opening hours RA 2 May 1997
Layden Court Residential Home criticised in Inspection Star 4 November 1998
Youth Organisations
Grant for community room for young people RA 19 July 1996
Community development workers prove a success RA 18 October 1996
Fund raising events for Youth Café project Din.& Maltby Guardian 25 April 1997
Summer gala fundraiser for Youth Café project RA 4 July 1997
Lottery grant received for Youth Café project RA 7 November 1997 |