ROMANCE OF KENT COAL
NEW TOWNS BEING STARTED LONDON, February 20. Ambitious schemes are developing in the Kent coalfields. The foundations of two new towns are being laid. Already the new colliery of Aylesham can now boast that within a comparatively short time it has developed into an Important “ town,” ns towns go in Kent, of nearly 500' new houses, with a hotel, bank and store. In addition, the erection of church halls, shops and other buildings is contemplated. The pits in this new coalfield are now giving employment to more than 3000 men; four up-to-date collieries, nil producing coal, and there is an optimistic feeling amongst men of Kent that a great future awaits what was in the Middle Ages England's leading industrial county.
In striking contrast to the romantic growth of tho coal industry in Kent is the dismantling of the first pit in the country —the boring at- the foot of Shakespeare Cliff, where coal seams were .first struck in tho year 1890—an event which Professor Boyd Dawkins declared marked a new era in our industrial development and one of considerable importance (o the south-east of England.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 13 April 1928, Page 5
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190ROMANCE OF KENT COAL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 13 April 1928, Page 5
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