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I read something in Lorraines book about Dover ghosts; the footsteps of the miners can sometimes be heard coming over Western Heights. There were some tragic incidents with miners losing their life at the Samphire Hoe shafts.
Kent's coal is too deep to mine, fortunately, as that prevented our County falling victim to the Industrial Revolution.
Had the coal been available then, they'd have built the factories right near the coalmines, as they did in South Wales, the Hull and Sheffield area, the Glasgow and Edinburgh area, and around Birmingham, where iron-ore was discovered.
We'd have received a few major industrial cities in Kent back then, which meanwhile would 'of developed to the size of Greater Birmingham.
Fortunately our Wealden iron-ore mines were empty by the time the Industrial Revolution broke out,for the same reasons. We used up our iron-ore during the Middle Ages, thus preserving Kent as the Garden of England.