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1863 LAND RENTED FROM FULLERTON ESTATE

1866 PROVIDENCE GLASS WORKS OPENED BY KILNER BROTHERS

1867 DENABY MAIN COLLIERY STARTED PRODUCING COAL

1868 FIRST HOUSES BUILT

1869 FIRST DENABY STRIKE

1872 FIRST COLLIERY SCHOOL

1880`S ROSSINGTON ST. SCHOOL BUILT

1883 DENABY INDUSTRIALCOOPERATIVE SOCIETY OPENED

1886 DENABY MAIN INSTITUTE OPENED

1889 FLAMELESS EXPLOSIVES WORKS OPENED (POWDER WORKS)

1891 EPWORTH HALL OPENED

1893 CADEBY BEGAN PRODUCING COAL

1893 SALVATION ARMY CORPS FORMED

1894 DENABY MAIN HOTEL BUILT

1895 LOWFIELD METHODIST CHAPEL OPENED

1896 START OF BUILDING ST. ALBANS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

1900 ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH BUILT

1902 BAG MUCK STRIKE

1905 BUILDING OF FULLERTON HOSPITAL

1909 GIRLS INSTITUTE OPENED

1912 OPEN AIR SWIMMING BATHS OPENED

1912 CADEBY COLLIERY DISASTER

1913 OPENING OF EMPIRE CINEMA,MARKET PLACE AND DENABY HALT RAILWAY STATION

1914 ST. JOHN´S AMBULANCE TOOK OVER GIRLS INSTITUTE

1918 IN 1918 DENABY AND CADEBY COLLIERY PRESENTED SGT. LAURENCE CALVERT VC. WITH

£300 WAR BONDS ANDCOLLECTION OF £25.

1920 1,700 HOUSES HAD BEEN BUILT

1921 CONISBROUGH URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL WAS FORMED ,

1923 DENABY & CADEBY MINERS

WELFARE INSTITUTE OPENED

1926 CATHOLIC SCHOOL WAS BUILT

1926 GENERAL STRIKE

1932 MEMORIAL PARK OPENED

1937 PROVIDENCE WORKS CLOSED

1938 FIRST HOUSES BUILT BY CONISBROUGH URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL IN DENABY

1938 THE CLINIC BUILT

1949 TOM HILL YOUTH CENTRE OPENED

1963 POWDER WORKS CLOSED

1965 TAVERN PUBLIC HOUSE BUILT

1968 DENABY COLLIERY CLOSED DOWN

1971 DEMOLITION OF OLD COLLIERY HOUSES STARTED

1975 DENABY PARISH CHURCH DEMOLISHED, NEW ONE BUILT

1977 FIRE DAMAGED NEW CHURCH AND HALL

1979 CHURCH REDEDICATED

1981 POPULATION OF DENABY 4,095

1984 LOCAL AUTHORITY CREATED NEW VILLAGE

1986 CLOSURE OF CADEBY COLLIERY

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