| Description | This folder contains the following printed ephemera, articles and newspaper articles on coalmining in South Yorkshire:
1) Silverwood Colliery Total Quality Management Developments brochure, first of four (n.d.)
2) Silverwood Colliery Total Quality Management Developments brochure, second of four (n.d.)
3) Silverwood News, Issue 24, November 1987
4) British Coal Estates, contains documents - "Information & Particulars: For Sale; The Former Mines Rescue Station, St. Anne's Road, Rotherham"; "Former Mines Rescue Station, St. Ann's Road, Rotherham", dated 19th July 1988; "Former Mines Rescue Station, St. Ann's Road, Rotherham", dated 13th July 1988
5) "Brookhouse" information sheet (n.d.)
6) Photograph of Brookhouse (n.d.)
7) List of books that contain information about coal forests, printed on tracing paper (n.d.)
8) List of mines, boreholes, and collieries on two loose small sheets with years opened/closed (n.d.)
9) Map colliery locations and list, two sheets, one written on back of "Open day at Sandbeck Hall (Maltby Rotherham)"
10) Doncaster Museum and Arts Service information sheet no. 7, "Coal-mining in the Doncaster area." Printed on yellow-orange paper, three sheets stapled together (n.d.)
11) Opencast Monitor, Tinsley Park Opencast Liaison Committee newsletter, Issue 3 April 1991
12) Letter from G. P. Hardy to W. A. Ely, Keeper of Natural History at Clifton Park Museum, dated 19th June 1980, with attached appendices, and correspondence between G. P. Hardy and W. A. Ely from 13th February 1980 and 21st January 1980
13) "Coal Measures: Palaeontology - Floral List with Horizon Letter and Locality Numbers", "Coal Measures: Palaeontology - Floral List Repeated in Tabular Form", and "Coal Measures: Palaeontology - Analysis of Flora Comparing Local Stratigraphical Position with General Range in Britain" stapled together, three small sheets
14) "Marine Horizons in the Coal Measures of the Barnsley District" by W. R. Barker and D. A. Wray, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. XXI, Part. IV, January 1931
15) Silverwood Colliery information leaflet by Thrybergh and Dalton Heritage Group (2007)
16) Newspaper clipping, " Super-pit work starts again" Morning Telegraph Business Editor
17) Newspaper clipping, "County calls for end to pit heaps" by Raymond Gledhill
18) Newspaper clipping, "NCB plans new deep seam tests" Morning Telegraph Business Editor
19) Newspaper clipping, "Manvers Complex, incorporating Manvers, Kilnhurst and Wath Main Collieries, is to go through British Coal's Colliery Review System in a bid to find a solution to heavy financial losses and geological problems" by Liz Oldfield
20) Newspaper clipping, "More Jobs Go At Local Pits", author unknown
21) Newspaper clipping, "Inquiry looks answer to opencast row", author unknown
22) Newspaper clipping, unknown headline, by Eric Barr, opens with "An attempt to minimise mining subsidence damage in South Yorkshire has been vetoed by Mr Peter Shore, the Environment Secretary."
23) Newspaper clipping, "Manvers miners step up output" by Sue Heseltine
24) Newspaper clipping, "Opencast site 'unbearable'", author unknown
25) Newspaper clipping, " Bid to halt coal push", author unknown
26) Newspaper clipping, unknown headline and author, first sentence "South Yorkshire County Council called on the Government to declare a national war on the problem of colliery waste."
27) Newspaper clipping, "Top-level probe of open pits starts", unknown author
28) Newspaper clipping, "Firms cash in on pits" by Donald Nannestad
29) Newspaper clipping, "Opencast Coal Act, 1958" and "Schedule: Land Comprised in the Authorisation", unknown authors
30) Newspaper clipping, unknown headline and author, first sentence "The Common Market is being asked to provide cash to help clear away South Yorkshire's pit tips - and provide jobs for the unemployed into the bargain."
31) Newspaper clipping, "Orgreave Colliery, at the centre of a closure row earlier this year, has stopped production, with the bulk of its workers being moved to other pits." Author unknown
32) Newspaper clipping, "The future of Wath Main Colliery hangs in the balance with its possible early closure hinging on a decision by the 300-strong workforce tomorrow (Saturday)." By Anne Story
33) Newspaper clipping, "Big M Digs In", author unknown
34) Newspaper clipping, "Record Chasing Miners", author unknown
35) Newspaper clipping, "Pit waste for roads" by Paul License
36) Newspaper clipping, "Council's opencast warning to NCB" by Eric Barr
37) Newspaper clipping, "£3m. investment plan gives doomed put a 30 years' reprieve", author unknown
38) Newspaper clipping, "Report hits out at opencasting" by Philip Andrews
39) Newspaper clipping, "Keeping rein on opencast", author unknown
40) Newspaper clippings, "Green hills
without soil", author unknown; "Bringing back life to old spoil tips" Yorkshire Post; unknown headline by Ray Parkin
41) Newspaper clipping, "Oil hunt draws close to town", author unknown
42) Newspaper clipping, "NCB to spend £3m to save colliery" by Howard Foster
43) Newspaper clipping, "Councils set for battle on opencasting", Morning Telegraph
44) Newspaper clipping, "Opencast Objection", author unknown
45) Newspaper clippings, "Five South Yorkshire Pits to be Axed", author unknown; "NCB set to shut 6 pits" by Robert Moody and Neil Fieldhouse
46) Newspaper clippings, "Coal has a secure future", author unknown; "Maltby project the biggest yet" by Ray Parkin; "Drift mine poser", author unknown
47) Newspaper clipping, "Opposition to pit spoil tax" Morning Telegraph
48) Newspaper clippings, "New hope for pit", author unknown; "Pit tests near end", author unknown; "Orgreave gets a life-line", author unknown
49) Newspaper clipping, "NCB state their case on opencasting", author unknown
50) Newspaper clippings, unknown headline by Ray Parkin, first sentence "People living in a large part of Rotherham area could be hit by mining subsidence because of a National Coal Board plan to extend operation."; "Seamy news for villages", author unknown; headline and author unknown, first sentence "Coal Board officials have threatened to go ahead with a big South Yorkshire opencast mining site, if they are forced to fill in a killer quarry."
51) Newspaper clippings, "New drift-mine will save jobs at Orgreave", author unknown; headline and author unknown, first sentence "A threat of a national miners' strike has been averted by the decision to keep open two collieries - Orgreave, near Sheffield, and Wakefield Manor."; "Pit saved - but Coal Board has doubts", author unknown
52) Newspaper clipping, "NCB faces tough opencast battle" by Eric Barr
53) Photocopy from unknown book, "Sitwell Thin Coal" underlined in red
54) "Map showing sites of principal pits and boreholes"
55) Photocopy from unknown book, "Barnsley Rider Coal to base of Kent's Thick Coal"
56) Photocopy from unknown book, "Beamshaw Coals"
57) Photocopy from unknown book, "Abdy or Winter Coal"
58) Photocopy from unknown book, "Kent's Thick Coal"
59) Photocopy from unknown book, "Kent's Thin Coal"
60) Photocopy from unknown book, "Deep Hard Coal"
61) Photocopy from unknown book, "Wathwood Coal"
62) Photocopy from unknown book, "Sitwell Thin Coal"
63) Photocopy from unknown book, "The Abdy Coal"
64) "Plan of the High Hazels Coal"
65) "Plan of the Barnsley or Top Hard Coal"
66) Photocopy from unknown book, "Wathwood or Foxearth Coal"
67) Photocopy from unknown book, "Wales coals"
68) Photocopy from unknown book, "Woodmoor, Meltonfield or Wathwood Coal"
69) Photocopy from unknown book, "Swinton Pottery Coal"
70) Photocopy from unknown book, "Fenton Coals"
71) Photocopy from unknown book, "Two-Foot Coal"
72) Photocopy from unknown book, "The Swinton Pottery Coal"
73) Photocopy from unknown book, first sentence "Above the Woolley Edge Rock is a group of measures, containing a few coals, which separates that rock from another important sandstone, the Oaks Rock."
74) Photocopy from unknown book, "Fenton Coal"
75) Photocopy from unknown book, "Steam or Newhill Coal"
76) Photocopy from unknown book, "Measures between Newhill and Swinton Pottery coals"
78) Photocopy from unknown book, "The Parkgate
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