Maltby, United Kingdom

From 1900 until 1929, the village was served by Maltby railway station on the South Yorkshire Joint Railway, with services running between Doncaster and Worksop. The station's platforms still remain and the line is an important freight route. John Brown's Private Railway also ran by the west of Maltby, but the track has been lifted and is now a public footpath; a short stretch of track and a platform remains. During the Second World War, a munitions factory, ROF Maltby, was established on the outskirts of Maltby close to the colliery; an estate nicknamed 'Little London' was built to house its workers, who had moved from Enfield in London.

Maltby also had a knitwear factory, Byfords, which supplied various companies including Pringle – but this closed in 1999, and a police station was built on the site.

Maltby's main council housing stock went into serious disrepair during the 1980s with areas like "White City" and the "Tarran estate" (now demolished) worst affected. Maltby local government funding in 1997, council estates such as White City and Birk's Holt Drive have been redevelopment. Derelict land and a former club building was demolished and the land redeveloped during the 1990s by John & Jeanne Jebson and Richard & Jen Schofield who developed two private dwellings on Meadow Lane and developed individual building plots and named Foxcroft Meadows – an area of seven new builds. New council housing was opened in 2011 on the site of the former Tarran estate.

Maltby has historically been connected with the peerage title of Earl of Scarbrough. Sandbeck Park in Maltby has been the family seat of the Earl of Scarbrough since 1752. The title of Earl of Scarbrough is synonymous with the Lumley family, who have held the title since its creation. The present holder of the title is Richard Lumley.

The Maltby coat of arms has three green parrots, taken from the arms of the Lumley family, as well as the Yorkshire rose.

Sinking of the original shafts of Maltby Colliery began in 1907, as part of the development a large estate known as the "Model Village" was constructed as housing for the colliery workers.

An explosion in the colliery occurred in 1923, resulting in 27 deaths.

Maltby Main pit was the site of mass picketing during the '80's miners' strike, which lasted almost exactly a year from March 1984 to March 1985, and the pit was the last to return to work when the strike ended.

Post nationalisation the pit was sold to RJB Mining (later known as UK Coal) in 1994, and later to Hargreaves Services in 2007.

After encountering geological problems when trying to access a new coal seam, colliery owner Hargreaves announced that on health and safety grounds the mine would have to close. Maltby Colliery closed in March 2013, with a march held by former miners and residents of the town to mark the occasion.

The Maltby Miners Welfare Club, a working men's club for miners, closed in 2018. The pub was locally known as the "Stute", after the Maltby Colliery Institute and Recreation Ground Scheme, the charity which has traditionally been responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the pub's premises and the neighbouring sports field. There was a long-running campaign to reopen the Stute, until it was damaged by a large fire in April 2021, forcing the pub to close permanently.