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    Gary
    Well I think 9.5 million is well spent anywhere in East Kent for a mining museum and your ideas for Fowlmead sound realistic and practical and I applaud your endeavours.

    However,I have to admit to being a little biased towards Snowdown as a location. I was involved in the preservation of the 2 Avonside tank engines St Thomas and St Dunstan and have pleasant memories of dealing with the management and staff of the time who were always very friendly and helpful. Apart from this I believe that Snowdown Colliery was the first, the deepest, had the hottest conditions,the most humid conditions and was known by the miners as Dantes Inferno! When production finished in 1987 (I think) the 2 shafts were filled and the the heads together with the boiler house chimney demolished. Most of everything else remains yet in a state of gradual decay.

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