Dozens of jobs are to be created after plans for a coal recovery and restoration scheme at a former colliery in South Yorkshire were approved. Recycoal has been given planning permission by Doncaster ...

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Photographs showing a sod cutting ceremony prior to the sinking of a new colliery are rare. An exception is Rossington Colliery near Doncaster, the exciting event being captured in 1912 by well known ...

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Plans for a new Rossington medical centre are set to be approved Plans for a new medical centre building on part of the former Rossington Colliery site have been recommended for approval. The ...

The mine shaft at Rossington Colliery was used to test the flight of bombs during World War One. Rossington pit had only just opened when war broke out. A shaft was sunk in 1912, and coal was first ...