And as an additional comment and amusement I spent a summer at
Snowdown Colliery as part of my Apprenticeship in 1963. The major
memory is the heat which was sufficient that some men wore hard hats,
belts, sox and boots. (No I didn't miss anything out).
Dave
>The search for coal started in Kent in the 1880s and the first mine sunk
>in Dover using the tools left after the abandonment of the first attempt at
>a channel tunnel and the coal seams reached in 1890.although this mine
>failed to produce, several other attempts were made in other areas of the
>S.E.corner of Kent. eventualy only four mines made it to the production
>stage Snowdown Colliery, Tilmanstone Colliery, Chislet Colliery, and lastly
>Bettishanger Colliery.With the coal Industry being new to this part of the
>world men had to be brought from other areas of the country to work the
>mines and new villages built to house the men and their families.I have
>just written and had published a book following the development and history
>of the village of Hersden and its Colliery from its sinking in 1918 to its
>closure in 1969. details of the book can be viewed at wwwbuylocalbooks.co.uk
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David A. Summers
Curators' Professor of Mining Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Director
Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center
University of Missouri-Rolla,
Rolla, MO 65409-0810
"fools talk, wise men listen." (a variant of Prov 12:23)
phone: (573) 341 4314
FAX: (573) 341 4368
related web pages
A growing selection of Dr. Summers' papers are being put on the Web
and can be accessed through the Bibliography
<http://campus.umr.edu/rockmech/people/summers/biography.html>
Rock Mechanics http://campus.umr.edu/rmerc/
Waterjet Lab: http://www.umr.edu/~waterjet/
UMR Stonehenge: http://www.umr.edu/~stonehen/
Personal: http://www.umr.edu/~rockmech/data/Summers.html
Mining Eng. http://www.umr.edu/~mining/
Waterjet Assoc http://www.wjta.org/
International Waterjet Society: http://www.iw.uni-hannover.de/iswjt/
Next American Waterjet conference: http://www.wjta.org/conference.htm
7th Pacific Rim Conference (May 2003) http://www.kojet.org
Distance Learning: http://campus.umr.edu/mining/ogeneral.htm
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