Meanwhile in Deal at least we are doing something to improve our tourism offer (dread phrase).
https://www.betteshanger-park.co.uk/beast.html
This should pack them in! How much have we now 'invested' in Betteshanger to provide a road to nowhere where the local youth can practice handbreak-turns? How many tens of millions of Coalboard Regeneration (sic) and Lottery Funding?
Meanwhile the £7.5m Visitor Centre is coming along nicely.
Showcasing renewable energy (a room with a windmill and a video showing that Al Gore film) and a mining museum containing a couple of miner's lamps plus test tubes full of sputum samples showing the onset of various lung diseases, but I suspect not mentioning that Betteshanger was the only pit in the UK to
strike during the Second World War.
I wonder if it's going to be twinned with the proposed Quisling Museum opening shortly in Norway?
(While Europe was in flames and men, women and children were dying the colliers reason for striking was over allowances for working a difficult seam because the conditions changed from week to week. Bastards.)
Can't wait.
