I paid a visit to Elvington & Eythorne Heritage Centre last Tuesday to find out more about Tilmanstone colliery, which was the first and longest running of the four main pits in Kent. Established in 1906 [...]

To expand on my first-look research into the tunnelling carried out by miners during WW1: Although many miners were refused permission to fight for their country during the First World War, the military did [...]

Because of the huge amount of information there is to take in on the mining heritage (at Aylesham, let alone online and the other heritage sites etc) and the difficulty of knowing what to [...]

For one of several pieces of activity that I would like to carry out for the project I am proposing to: organise a curated walk (or small series of walks) along the East Kent Railway [...]

Lots of connections and strands of ideas have started forming recently through various snippets of research and conversation. The sense of conversation itself and of community, storytelling, remembrance and will to connect is what’s [...]

On Wednesday 4th Feb, a group of us gathered at Aylesham Heritage Centre for a brilliant hands-on day of drawing and stitching, led by artists Marcia Teusink and Rosie James. For many of us [...]

Mining activity in East Kent during the First World War mainly consisted of boring and tunnelling: Boring: Coal was discovered at 300m below Shakespeare Cliff in 1890 during the earliest borings for the Channel [...]

I paid my first visit to Aylesham Heritage Centre in early September – firstly to confirm my suspicion that this was the site I wanted to be partnered with for the DMAG project, but [...]