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William Green  who was a Train Driver for G.C.R. was assigned to Silverwood Colliery in 1906

By 1907 the Silverwood Football Club was formed, Harry, Brandon was one of the early players and played for Silverwood colliery football in 1907

1908 saw the implemention of the Coal Mines Act which meant an eight hour day for miners.

In 1908 J. E. Adam of Barnego, Whinney Hill Thrybergh is listed as M. B. C.M. GLAS Glas 1893 D.P.H. Surgeon to Silverwood Collieries

The Mining Magazine - Page 317
1909
... description of two geared Ward-Leonard dc winders for Silverwood and Cadeby Collieries ...

 William Henry Ball age 39 who was born in Hoyland West Barnsley Yorkshire was the manager at Roundwood he was soon to be Manager of Silverwood. He had in 1901 been a manager at Flimby Cumberland. The family moved into what is now Milburn House Hollings Lane Thrybergh, the intersection of the road was nicknamed " Balls Corner" by locals. William and his wife Rhoda were to suffer the sad loss of their son Henry in the First World War.

Also from Hoyland came Joseph Robert Francis Thompson He was a pit deputy at Hoyland (don't know which pit) but between 1901 and 1907 he moved to Thrybergh. His sons were to become employed at Silverwood also

Edward Thomas GWatkin age 42 was appointed as a Train guard at Silverwood in 1910.

Back then the Skellams had the chippie (I think it's now a Chinese) same side as the Grapes Hotel they were known as Skellams, and used to sell a penneth of chips and a penneth of fish. Skellams used to run buses to the pit (charabancs) (Jim Wroe) nicknamed Lat (because he was thin) used to be the conductor.
Silverwood Brass Band was formed in 1909.

A fatal accident also occurred in this year on the 1st of July.
 John Henry Green was the most popular labour leader in South Yorkshire, and was at the head of over 3000 Silverwood miners.  In this capacity he fought many stiff battles for the cause.  When addressing the men at their meetings he was noted for his outspokenness, and never feared to risk his reputation through plain speaking if they were taking up any unreasonable attitude, the late John Brown’s strike being a typical example of this. When the Workers’ Compensation Act came into force, Mr Green held the post of adviser and secretary for compensation for the Silverwood miners. In this, as in everything else he took up, he quickly became adept, and he had no rival in Yorkshire in compensation matters. Dr. Pye-Smith, the eminent Sheffield doctor, counted him as a friend, whilst nearly every gentleman of influence in the Rotherham area was proud to shake hands with him.  He could have made a great name at Barnsley as a miner’s leader and probably become an M.P. however he declined all offers.
 

Born 18th January 1891at 34 Hooton Road, Kilnhurst, near Rotherham Leonard William Barlow began his career in the coal mining industry in Kilnhurst around 1905. Date of moving to Silverwood Colliery uncertain but he cycled from Kilnhurst to Silverwood each day, rising at 3.30a.m. to catch the 6 a.m. shift.

In 1911the coal mines act of that year stipulated that all miners signing on should receive a copy of the act, and that each miner should declare whether or not he was qualified to work other than under the supervision of a skilled worker. The bill was passed after Parliament and the Lords debated it. Also a compulsory introduction of Mine Rescue Stations was brought in with the bill.

In 1886 a Royal Commission recommended the establishment of Rescue Stations, but they did not become general until the Coal Mines Act of 1911 made their provision compulsory.

It was quite an interesting year for coal mining in  July and August there was trouble brewing in the old West Riding,  by December of that year there was a coal trade crisis regarding miners wages.

It was the year when Parliament decided that the Pit brow Lasses would stay in mining. Meanwhile amongst all this the Roundwood and Silverwood had a celebration of sorts where they consumed  ginger beer and apples in early August. A year when four people of No Fixed Abode were discovered sleeping in the Silverwood area. A year when in December poor old Thomas Atherton a Silverwood Miner who lived at Dalton Brook was arrested and jailed for a month for a  Mottying offence at Silverwood Colliery. In the days of private ownership  the colliers had motties, small pieces of cast metal with a number on them, when they filled a tub full of coal they'd put their "motty" on it, the coal was then paid to them.

Minimum Wages Act forced on it by striking coal workers.

In 1912 on the 8th July King George V and Queen Mary visited Silverwood, during the visit the Queen had a ride on a Railway Trolley belonging to the Midland Railway , during the visit to Silverwood an explosion occurred at Cadeby Colliery killing 88 men and boys. The King and Queen visited Cadeby the next day. The King and Queen at Silverwood

The price of coal in 1912 was around 8s.9d. per ton [ Pit Head cost ] There was a strike in 1912 this was concerning the loss in earnings when miners worked in narrow coal seams, a narrow seam meant a slower production in the coal extracted, the miners got paid for what they produced so they fought for a minimum wage as compensation for being unable to earn a decent wage on these narrow seams.   Illegal coal picking was recorded at the time during the strike due to the obvious shortage of coal.

During 1913 Harry Pursehouse, J. Stamps, and J. Russell representing the Yorkshire Miners Association Silverwood Branch met with Rotherham Council to discuss a request that the street lamps between Aldwarke Toll Bar and Whinney Hill be left on until 6 a.m. for six nights a week between September and March.

By 1913 European mines were introducing Mechanization whereas the United Kingdom mine owners rather than spend money on machinery relied on human labour and just below ten percent of coal was cut by machine in the U. K.  This percentage slowly increased and just prior to 1930 the U. K.  had increased this figure to only 25 percent,  ten years later the figure had increased to around 75 percent throughout the U.K. This of course meant that the coal industry in the U. K. could not compete with its European counterparts, a situation caused by mine owners not the miners.

The comparison in output is astonishing from 1913 until 1930, Germany and Poland by the implementation of machinery increased their outputs between 70 and 80 percent, whilst the U.K. lagged behind with a meagre 10 percent increase.

Silverwood was amongst the few mines actually competing with the European mines, but the overhaul percentages above included smaller low production mines.

The 1914 to 1918 Great War was to claim 250 lives of men who worked at Silverwood, and 62 miners who worked at the Roundwood colliery. Both Mines were owned by the Dalton Main Collieries Ltd.
Albert Rowbotham  aged 18 years of 15 Monk street, Rotherham was amongst the many from the mine to enter into the war, he had worked at Silverwood until he joined the  East Yorkshire Regiment  . He was mentioned in the Rotherham Advertiser on the 13th July 1918 as missing in action. Albert returned to the mine in 1920. There is somewhat a mystery surrounding the death of Albert, and it is thought that he died with shell shock induced damage to his brain.
 

There are many stories like the one recently sent in below

My name is Ernest Durham. although I've been known for years as Ed (after my initials).   I was born in Abel Street Thrybergh in December 1935.   I now live in Norfolk having retired in 1989 after 36 years in the RAF.
My mother's maiden name was Moxon and her father was Enoch Moxon who was killed on 20 April 1916 - he is buried in the Ecoivres Military Cemetery just a few miles NE of Arras.    I discovered this only 6 months or so ago and my wife and I went to see the grave last month.   Enoch came from a mining family and I believe he worked at Silverwood.   He joined the York and Lancs at the outbreak of WW1 but remustered and became a tunneller with 182 Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers.   Clearly with his experience he was volunteered when the business of mines and countermines started in France.   He was 35 years old when he died and my grandmother remarried and lived for another 10 years, having 3 more children to add to her already large family, of whom my mother was the only girl.