As well as the 310 million-year-old shark egg case, several horseshoe crabs and some previously unrecorded seed pods were discovered at the disused Yorkshire Main Colliery in Edlington.

A MINER’S gallantry medal given for an incredible act of bravery nearly a century ago is returning home to Yorkshire as a ...

After visits to all the redundant pit tips by Lomax, along with Peter Robinson from Doncaster Heritage Services and local fossil collector Brian Williams, Edlington was identified as being the ...

Indiefield Festival, set in the backdrop of the historic mining Village of New Edlington, Doncaster. Our mission is simple, to bring you the best talent that the Country has to offer. We envision ...

PROPERTY regeneration company Harworth Estates has secured planning permission for a 375-home development outside Doncaster ... former Yorkshire Main colliery site in the village of Edlington ...

During the great miners' strike of 1984-5 Arrowsmith was the National Union of Mineworkers official at Yorkshire Main Colliery, in the traditional mining village of Edlington near Doncaster. He still ...

Pickets, Police and Tom Gibson at Yorkshire Main Colliery Edlington. August 22nd 1984. In April, 1984, Doncaster Council leader, Jim McFarlane, called into question police tactics. The Police ...

Mr Fisher, 52, lived in the Edlington area near Doncaster. He spent all his working life in the mining industry starting at the Yorkshire Main pit in 1972 before moving to Maltby Colliery in 1985.

A memorial has been unveiled to mark the 100th anniversary of the Cadeby Main mining disaster. Two explosions at the colliery, near Doncaster, on 9 July 1912 left 91 miners dead. Fundraising for ...