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Undismayed, Four Heroes Entered The Bungalow ‘Jungle’
1820 Aug The Pottery Well and Seven Men
The Railway Acts
Mill Water in Court
1838 Sep Kilnhurst Steel & File Works – Sale or Let – Immediate Possession
1841 Feb Disorderly Workman
1851 Dec Awful Colliery Explosion at Warren Vale – Fifty-One Lives Lost.
1870 Aug Colliery Accident
1874 Nov The Burial of the Dead.
1888 Jul South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade
1889 Feb Death by Suffocation at the Swinton Chemical Works.
1889 Apr Co-Operative Conference At Denaby Main – The Dividend Question.
1889 Dec Trade in the Mexborough Area in 1889
1890 May Yorkshire Coalowners & Local Wages Questions – Important Resolution.
1891 Jan Death of Mr. Charles Goodinson
1891 Jan The Fatal Accident at Thrybergh Hall Colliery.
1891 Jan Local Trade in 1890
1891 Feb A Case from Thrybergh Hall Colliery.
1891 Aug South Yorkshire Collieries and The Hull Coal Trade – August 14, 1891
1891 Oct Co-operative Conference – 1. Chairman’s Remarks
1891 Oct Co-operative Conference – 2. Webb’s Paper
1891 Oct Co-operative Conference – 3. Delegates Comments
1891 Dec Kilnhurst Co-operative Stores
1892 Feb A Swinton Miner Killed at Thrybergh Hall
1892 Mar The Crisis in the Coal Trade – Mexborough District
1892 Apr South Yorkshire and the Hull Coal Trade – The Miners’ “Stop” Week
1892 Jul Miner’s Demonstration
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
1894 Jan A Disastrous Year
1902 Sep The Hull Coal Trade – Serious Decline of Traffic.
1902 Sep The Dispute at Thrybergh Hall and Warren Vale.
1907 Apr Thrybergh Dispute – Important Conference – No settlement
1908 Nov Brutal Pony Driver
1908 Nov Amazing Epidemic of Fatal Accidents – Four Colliery Disasters & Two Drowning Cases
1908 Nov Kilnhurst Railway Fatality.
1909 Apr The Elections – Kilnhurst & Swinton
1909 May Trammer Killed at Kilnhurst
1909 May Exports Increasing Denaby & Cadeby Again to the Front.
1909 Oct Hull Coal Traffic – September the Best Month of the Year.
1910 Mar Kilnhurst Cooperative Society – Jubilee Festival
1910 Aug Buried Alive – Miners Awful Fate – Heroic Rescuers
1910 Aug Fatal Kite Flying at Kilnhurst
1911 May The Property Market, Sheffield – Messrs. Nicholson’s Important Sale
1911 Oct The Coal Output – Still a Big Deficiency.
1912 Jan Mining Death Roll – Kilnhurst Footballer Killed.
1912 Feb Hull Coal Traffic – A Slightly Increased Tonnage.
1912 Mar Disastrous Effect on Trading Concerns.
1912 Mar National Coal Strike – Premier’s Important Statement – Government Favour Minimum Wage.
1912 Mar Reports from the Coal Fields – In the Don Valley
1912 Mar The National Coal Strike – How the Local Firms Stand
1912 Mar The National Coal Strike – Situation at the Local Collieries
1917 Aug Kilnhurst Miner Dies
1917 Aug A Miner’s Lost Fingers
1918 Jan Butchers on Strike.
1918 Jan Kilnhurst Pony Driver Fined At Rotherham – Wounding “Dandy”
1918 Jan Heroism at Kilnhurst – Empire Medals for Chemical Workers
1918 Jun Splendid Effort – Aeroplane Assured By Kilnhurst Works
1918 Nov 1,000 Shell-Workers ’ Notices
1918 Dec Motor Benzole For Sale.
1918 Dec The Shell Girls – Fine Performance – Tribute To Devoted Patriotism
1919 Mar County Elections. – Public Apathy. – Local Labour Successes.
1919 Apr A Row With The Chairman.
1919 Apr Kilnhurst Labour Trouble 
1919 May Amalgamated Union Meets in Sheffield – Kilnhurst Strike
1919 Jul Coal Strike Local Situation – Industry Running Down. Mines Calm & Orderly
1919 Jul Coal Miner’s Strike – Mines Quickly Flooding.
1919 Aug Sale of Dwellinghouses in Kilnhurst
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
1920 Jan Hull Coal Traffic.
1920 Sep Triple Alliance – No Appetite for General Strike – Local Situation
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
1921 May Swinton Council – A Cricket Comedy – Blow for Budding Hirsts
1921 Jun Pit Pony Races.
1921 Oct Swinton Council – Street Lighting & Disgraceful State of Kilnhurst.
1922 Apr South Yorkshire Coal Trade – Shipments for March 1922
1927 May Cooperative Society Results
1927 May Kilnhurst Colliery – 180 Men Paid Off
1927 Jun Canal Lock re Conditioning
1927 Jul Local Industries
1927 Nov Died At Work – Rotherham Miners Tragic End
1927 Dec Dearne Valley Trade Review 1927
1928 Jan Kilnhurst Pit to Work Only One Shift a Day – 1,000 Given Notice
1928 Feb Change at Kilnhurst.
1928 Feb More Men Dismissed.
1928 Mar Died While Working – Compensation for Loss of Son
1928 Mar John Baker and Co – Outlook for Coming Year Not So Bright.
1928 Apr Costs In The Steel Trades – Rotherham Firm’s Possible Move
1928 Jun Kilnhurst Accident – Rawmarsh Youth Killed
1928 Jul Swinton Youth Killed – Unexplained Accident at Thrybergh Hall Colliery – Derailed Tubs.
1928 Aug Kilnhurst Co-operative Secretary Retiring – An Honourable Record.
1928 Sep Killed By Fall at Kilnhurst Colliery – A Pure Accident.
1928 Oct Knocked Off Boilers – Mexborough Man Killed at Kilnhurst Forge.
1928 Dec Drowning Fatality.
1929 Jan “Top End.” – Closing of Swinton Common Pit
1929 Jan Closing of Swinton Common Colliery – 300 miners involved.
1929 Mar Kilnhurst Working Again
1929 Mar Candidates for the Councils – South Yorkshire Urban & Rural Nominations
1929 Mar The New Councillors – Men & Women Who Won First Victories
1929 Apr The New Chairmen – South Yorkshire Civic Leaders
1929 May Better Times At Baker’s – Two Big Orders for Next Two Months.
1929 May 1929 General Election, May 30, 1929
1929 Jun Unusual Case Settled –  Rotherham Works Accident Compensation Division.
1929 Jun Baker-Bessemer
1929 Jun Bakers’ Enterprise Offer To Buy Bessemer’s – Production to be at Kilnhurst.
1929 Jun Insanitary Conditions in Kilnhurst
1929 Jul Killed By Haulage – Unexplained Accident – Found Under “Tub”
1929 Jul Miner Dies from Injuries at Pit
1929 Jul Lightning Strike – Wages Dispute at Thrybergh Hall – Settlement Yesterday
1929 Jul Baker-Bessemer – Kilnhurst Firm’s Offer Accepted.
1929 Jul Haulage Hands’ Wages – Prompt Settlement of Thrybergh Hall Pit Dispute.
1929 Aug Sheffield Works of Famous Firm to Close Down – Henry Bessemer And Co.
1929 Sep Race Week and Co-operative Trip
1929 Oct Important South African Order for Tires.
1929 Nov Co-operative Society – Quarterly Meeting
1929 Nov Pottery Site Closes
1929 Nov Vanished History. – The “Bristol” Boom – A Tale of Two Centuries.
1929 Dec Royal Rockingham – History of Yorkshire’s Only Porcelain Pottery
1929 Dec Trade Review – Don and Dearne Valleys.
1930 Oct Mottying At Kilnhurst – Miner Fined at Rotherham.
1931 Jan Trade In 1931- The Local Outlook – No Great Expectations
1931 May Kilnhurst Co-Operative Society Quarterly Statement
1931 May Praise for W.V.S. From Swinton U.D.C Chairman
1931 Dec Our Free Family Insurance – Another Fatal Accident Claim Paid
1931 Dec Don and Dearne Valleys – Upward Tendency of Trade
1932 Jan Casualty List of 1931
1932 Apr Kilnhurst’s Kind Farewell 
1932 May Kilnhurst Man’s Unreported Injury – Widow’s Claim Fails – Fatal Burn
1932 Sep Coal Tar – Infant Industry with Great Future
1932 Oct Good Old Hemp
1932 Nov Light on The Coal Quota – Collapse of the Export Trade
1933 Apr The Local Elections – Some New Members
1934 Jan Work-Sharing – Spreading In Local Collieries
1934 Feb Kilnhurst Veteran to Retire – First Postman
1934 Feb New County Districts West Riding Proposals Completed
1934 Feb Swinton U.D.C. – Scarlet Fever Epidemic – Amalgamation Doom
1937 Jan Kilnhurst Colliery taken over by Tinsley Park Colliery
1937 Mar Brighter Outlook for John Baker and Bessemer Ltd
1937 Apr Kilnhurst Bridge
1937 Jul Kilnhurst Colliery Accident – 18 Men Dashed Down Shaft
1937 Jul Kilnhurst Colliery Accident – The Dead and Injured
1937 Jul Kilnhurst Colliery Accident – Scenes at the Pit
1937 Jul Kilnhurst Colliery Accident – The Inquest – Deputy Who Heard Shouts and Groans
1937 Aug Kilnhurst Pit Cage Crash – Winder’s Admission – Lever in Wrong Position
1937 Oct Steelworks Youths’ Strike
1937 Oct Young Steelworkers Strike
1937 Nov Tinsley Park’s Profits And Offer
1937 Nov Back To Work
1938 Apr Presentation at Baker & Bessemer
1938 Apr District Election Surprises – Three Independent Gains
1938 Apr Kilnhurst Chemical Works Manager
1938 Apr Kilnhurst Councillor – Mr W.O. Turton
1938 Apr New Councillor – Fitter & Turner at Kilnhurst Colliery
1938 Jun Loss Ill Afforded – Richard Tetlow
1938 Nov Express Imperilled By Lost Tyre at Kilnhurst
1939 Jan Kilnhurst Ferry Provides Short Cut for Horses
1939 Jan Houses for The Asking – But Slum Dwellers Decline to Move
1939 Feb Injured Head At Work
1939 Feb Stationmaster Retires – “Corpse” In Glass Case Reminiscence
1939 Mar Kilnhurst Co Operative Society (Advert)
1939 Mar Kilnhurst Cooperative Society Parade
1939 Mar Fatally Injured At Kilnhurst Pit
1939 Apr All Quiet at Swinton- Retiring Members Returned.
1939 May Council Civic Parade to Kilnhurst Church
1939 May Civic Parades In The Rain
1939 Jun Kilnhurst Industrialist’s Views – Impressions and Comparisons of American Tour
1939 Aug Kilnhurst Co-operative Society Gala
1939 Aug Kilnhurst Co-operative Society Gala
1939 Oct Kilnhurst Co-op Notice
1939 Dec Men’s Unanimous Decision
1942 Jan New Enterprise – Kilnhurst Directors Purchase a Sheffield Concern
1942 May South Yorkshire Colliery Disasters
1942 May 30 Editorial – Coalfield Unrest
1942 Jun Stoppage at Houghton Main – Second Within a Week
1942 Jun “In And Out” Strikes – Unrest at South Yorkshire Pits
1942 Sep Mr. Hall Speaks Out
1947 Jan NCB flag goes up at the Pits – Vesting Ceremonies in the Districts
1947 Jan NCB Vesting Day
1947 Jan The Birth of a Coalfield – Looking Back 150 Years
1947 Apr Reward for Good Work (video)
1947 May Dearne Valley Towns and Collieries in 1947
1947 May New NCB Area Welfare Officer
1947 Aug Kilnhurst Colliery Ambulance Awards
1947 Oct The Three Musketeers – Amputated Limbs, Fractured Back
1947 Oct Speedier Steel Melting – Kilnhurst Firms Pioneer Work
1948 Busy Easter at Kilnhurst Lock
1948 Jan Dead on Conveyor – Natural Causes Verdict on Kilnhurst Mineworker
1948 Feb Kilnhurst’s Penny Pile
1948 Mar Product of Kilnhurst sets out for the Channel Islands.
1948 Apr New Councillors for Kilnhurst Ward
1948 May Miners’ Strike Ends
1948 Jun National Coal Board New Policy
1948 Oct Going Back To Work
1948 Oct Romance of Industry – Kilnhurst Steel Firm’s Chairman Looks Back
1949 Mar Haigh Moor Seam Developments – “Considerable Life ” Still In Parkgate Seam
1949 Mar Kilnhurst Colliery Canteen Tea Time
1949 Aug Three Vehicles Bring Outsize Load to Kilnhurst
1949 Sep British Iron and Steel Trades Association Presentation
1949 Sep Licensed M. C.
1949 Oct £4 Million Coal Mine Scheme for Yorkshire
1949 Oct Miners to fight £4,000,000 concentration plan
1949 Oct Vast Yorkshire Pit Plan Ready
1949 Dec Gift for ex-Kilnhurst Stationmaster
1950 Jan Inland Dredgers – Local Crew Clearing Don at Conisbrough
1950 Apr More Coal Queens – Area Final at Wath Next Month
1951 Jan Appearance of Double Deckers
1951 Jan Double – Decker Buses – New Area Service
1951 Jan Baker and Bessemer Man In Australia
1951 Feb Pre-Accident Wages – Kilnhurst Miner Wins His Case
1951 Feb GMWU Presentation
1951 Feb Secretary Resigns – Break With Labour Party
1951 Mar Breakdowns Cut Output
1951 Mar Kilnhurst’s New Coal Queen
1951 Apr New Slide Erected in Playground
1951 Apr Towns’ Census Watch – Population Trends
1951 May Weekly Coal Output
1951 Jun John Baker Challenge Shield
1951 Jun Colleagues Tributes – Swinton Presentation to Mr J Jagger
1951 Jul Not a Yorkshire Tar Distillers’ new by-product
1951 Jul Ancient – And Modern – Rockingham Pottery Site Has New Owner
1951 Aug Tonnage Halved
1951 Sep Kilnhurst Co-op (advert)
1951 Oct Whitsun Output Drop
1951 Oct Baker’s Football Club Dance
1951 Oct Election: Who’s Who
1951 Nov Barnburgh Pit Output Cut By Wath Strike!
1951 Nov Kilnhurst Colliery Officials’ Dinner and Dance
1951 Nov Mines Output Tonnage – Keep it up Wentworth
1951 Nov Third Time in Five Weeks – Coal Output
1951 Nov Stockholders Meet – Report by Mr. George Baker
1951 Nov Yorkshire Tar Distillers Sports and Social Club
1951 Nov Election Notebook – Flag For Tory Victory Was Sabotaged
1951 Nov Election Results in Don & Dearne Valleys
1951 Nov No Change but Majorities Down
1951 Dec Obituary – George Peaker
1951 Dec From Mr. J. A. Hall, C.B.E., J.P., Yorkshire Miners President
1951 Dec Holiday Hangover
1951 Dec Street Lighting Worse Than At Any Time Since The War
1953 Apr Collieries Record Yield
1953 Apr Kilnhurst’s Best Output
1957 Jan Coal Cutting Machine at Kilnhurst Colliery
1957 Jan Blaze in an Oil Tank At Kilnhurst Steelworks
1957 Feb Swinton and Kilnhursrt Rally of Savings Workers
1957 Mar Hoover at the Kilnhurst Co-op
1957 Jun Baker and Bessemer New Sports Pavilion
1957 Jun Barnburgh Pit Blast – Man from Kilnhurst Injured
1957 Jun Branch Secretary Retires
1957 Jul Barnburgh Pit Blast – One Man Leaving Hospital – Death Roll now 4
1957 Aug Killnhurst Colliery Coal Queen
1957 Aug Kilnhurst Colliery Sports – Competitors
1957 Aug Kilnhurst Colliery Sports – Spectators
1957 Sep Stanley Matthews Competition
1957 Oct Danish Bacon Company Kilnhurst
1957 Nov Flash From Damaged Cable Was Cause of Barnburgh Pit Explosion
1957 Dec Swinton and Kilnhurst Labour Party Annual Dinner & Dance
1957 Dec Kilnhurst Colliery Retired Miners
1957 Dec Kilnhurst Firm’s Share – £620,000 Order From Canada
1958 Jan Kilnhurst Colliery Officials Annual Dinner
1958 Feb Dangers of Canal Side Paths – Swinton Boatyard Owner States His Views
1958 Feb Presidency for a Bakers Director
1958 Jun Old Folk’s Centre Opening Ceremony Red Letter Day for Kilnhurst
1958 Jun By-election at Swinton and Kilnhurst
1958 Jun Wedgewood Factory Visit
1958 Aug Coal Queen at Kilnhurst Sports Day
1958 Aug Kilnhurst Colliery Sports Meeting
1958 Aug Kilnhurst Colliery Sports Meeting
1958 Aug Kilnhurst Central Station Garden
1958 Sep Get Your Hoover Now !
1958 Sep Kilnhurst Railway Station Garden
1959 Jan District Industrial Leaders Look Ahead Confidently
1959 Aug Kilnhurst Colliery Annual Sports Day
1959 Aug New Locomotives from Old – Conversion Factory opens at Kilnhurst
1959 Sep Kilnhurst Colliery Ambulance Class
1959 Sep N.C.B. Area No.3 first aid Trophy
1959 Sep Station Gardens Competition Winner
1959 Sep Work Resumed After Dispute at Kilnhurst
1959 Oct Long Service Awards at Yorkshire Tar Distillers
1959 Nov Kilnhurst Colliery Ambulance Competition
1959 Dec Kilnhurst Colliery Aged People’s Treat
1959 Dec Baker and Bessemer Staff Dance
1960 Jan By-Election at Kilnhurst – Two Seek a Council Seat
1960 Jan Fate Of Ten Houses – Discussed At Kilnhurst Clearance Inquiry
1960 Mar Board of Directors of the Kilnhurst Co-op
1960 Mar Kilnhurst Co-op – 1860 -1960 – One Hundred Years Progress
1960 Mar Kilnhurst Co-op – Ancient and Modern
1960 Mar Kilnhurst Co-op – First Store
1960 Mar Kilnhurst Co-op – Hard on the Heels of Original Pioneers
1960 Mar Kilnhurst Co-op – President’s Message
1960 May Play Weeks At Pits – South Yorkshire Collieries
1960 Aug National Coal Board (advert)
1960 Sep Pit Fatality at Kilnhurst – Miner Hit by Falling Stone
1967 Jan Kilnhurst Colliery Official’s Dinner Dance
1967 Feb Presentation to Assistant Engineer
1967 Apr Kilnhurst Offers an Expansion Site – Wheels Are Turning Again after 2 Years
1967 Nov Chamber of Trade Fair
1967 Nov Kilnhurst Co-operative Society – Christmas Prices
1967 Dec Thomas Hill Ltd Annual Dinner
1967 Dec Swinton and Kilnhurst Labour Party dinner
1968 Jan Kilnhurst Co-Operative Society Staff Dance
1968 Jan Gillott’s New Bar Rolling Mill
1968 Jan South Yorkshire Businesses – Danish Bacon Company
1968 Jan South Yorkshire Businesses – Thomas Hill Ltd
1968 Oct Kilnhurst Colliery Ambulance Class
1968 Nov Pit Strike Ends
1968 Dec Swinton and Kilnhurst Labour Party Dinner.
1968 Dec Swinton and Kilnhurst Labour Party’s Annual Dinner.
1969 Jan South Yorkshire Industrial Review – Showing Enterprise and Confidence.
1969 Apr Conservative Candidates Tour Colliery
1969 Jul Official Civic Reception To The German Visitors.
1969 Sep £2,500,000 Manvers Plan Will Be Boost To Three Area Collieries.
1969 Oct Serious Effects of The Strike
1969 Dec Retirement at Gerrard industries
1970 Jan Commerce the Key for South Yorkshire
1970 Jan Baker and Bessemer Rifle Club
1970 Jan Baker and Bessemer Rifle Club Presentation
1970 Jan Yorkshire Tar Distillers (Kilnhurst) Presentation
1970 Apr Kilnhurst Colliery Consultative Committee
1970 May Road Danger
1970 Jun Rosemary Making First Title Bid
1970 Jun Variety of Jobs in Mining (advert)
1970 Jun Polling Day Highlights in South Yorkshire
1983 Jun 50 Playing For The Game’s Sake
On Strike One Week – Hit Target Next