Qualla: Maltby Main Colliery https://qualla.com/maltby-main-colliery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/maltby-main-colliery-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Maltby Main Colliery https://qualla.com/maltby-main-colliery Maltby Main Colliery: Introduction https://qualla.com/maltby-main-colliery/ Photo credit Ukbn2 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Before there was a workforce, there were the houses. Maltby Main Colliery was sunk far enough from the existing village of Maltby that the colliery company had to build somewhere for the miners to live. The result, opened around the same time as the pit, was Maltby Model Village: an estate of 400 houses laid out in the deliberate, planned way characteristic of early-twentieth-century company-built communities. The houses are still there. The pit they were built for is gone, demolished in 2014, a year after the last coal came up the shaft.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/maltby-main-colliery-wp/gcrp-maltby-main-colliery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Maltby Main Colliery: Sinking the Shafts https://qualla.com/maltby-main-colliery/ Photo credit Ukbn2 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The first shafts at Maltby Main were sunk in 1910, with first coal produced in 1912 and all faces in production by 1914. The colliery sat in a wooded patch off Tickhill Road on the eastern edge of Maltby, opened by the Maltby Main Colliery Company, itself a subsidiary of the Shee...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/maltby-main-colliery-wp/gcrp-maltby-main-colliery-sinking-the-shafts.mp3 0:06 2 full Maltby Main Colliery: Going Deeper, Going Down https://qualla.com/maltby-main-colliery/ Photo credit Ukbn2 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Through the 1950s the two main shafts were progressively deepened, giving horizontal access first to the Barnsley seam and then to the new Swallow Wood seam below it. By 1969 the Barnsley seam was considered worked out, and production moved entirely onto Swallow Wood. In 1981 the...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/maltby-main-colliery-wp/gcrp-maltby-main-colliery-going-deeper-going-down.mp3 0:06 3 full Maltby Main Colliery: The Geology That Beat Them https://qualla.com/maltby-main-colliery/ Photo credit Ukbn2 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. South Yorkshire's deep coal seams sit beneath layers of Magnesian Limestone, fractured ground, and gas-charged strata. The deeper a mine goes, the harder these problems become. By late 2012 Hargreaves Services had concluded that the underground conditions at Maltby Main were too ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/maltby-main-colliery-wp/gcrp-maltby-main-colliery-the-geology-that-beat-them.mp3 0:06 4 full Maltby Main Colliery: Demolition and Aftermath https://qualla.com/maltby-main-colliery/ Photo credit Ukbn2 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The above-ground structures came down in 2014. The pit headgears, the winding houses, the screens and the conveyor galleries were all reduced to rubble. What remained was the model village a kilometre or so away, the streets of stone-built terraces that had housed three generatio...

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