Landmark

Kent

By Pamela Leah

This archive used to publish its collection on the Commanet website. The Commanet website is no longer online, because Commanet went into liquidation in 2009. If anyone can provide further details about how to access this collection, please contact elaine@communityarchives.org.uk.

The Glynn Vivien Miners Mission Band, circa 1930

Landmark (Coalfields Heritage Initiative Kent)

Betteshanger Colliery Workmen's Buses, circa 1934

Landmark (Coalfields Heritage Initiative Kent)

This archive is part of Commanet: the community archive network .

Commanet is a registered charity that helps communities to set up and develop local archives using specially designed Commanet software.

This archive includes photographs of various colleries in the Kent area, including Snowden, Tilmanstone, Betteshanger and the colliery at Shakespear Cliff. As well as photographs of the mines and associated gear, there are those which reveal the social lives of the workforce, including pictures of bands, choirs and a street party.