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  Paul.
  This DVD and Booklet is about our mining history in Kent not about the strike.
  Yes, our Miners were capable of standing up for their rights and taking on the Landowner and sometimes oppressive Colliery Manager.
  However, there are far more important things for us to remember from the last 100 years of mining in Kent.
  Malcolm Pitt says it all when he sets out the reason how our culture was formed and survived over the years.
  Miners arriving here from all over this country were not welcomed and were discriminated against.
  Signs like, "No Miners need apply" on adverts for accommodation, pub signs with "No dogs and No miners allowed" and even scrap ends of meat being sold in local shops by calling it Miners Bacon etc.
  This alienation caused our miners to turn inwards and join together to create their own culture.
  Their way of life, which was a far cry from what the media have wrongly painted about them over the years, not only influenced the history in their surrounding towns and villages but is now a true story that needs telling.
  
  Our medical centre's saved local villagers lives for many years, many heart attack victims who were not miners had their lives saved and our ambulances were used to save non miners lives, until they shut.
  
  This is only the first of a series of DVD's and along with our talks, we will be telling the story of the Kent Miners.
  
  Thousands of people only know what they have read and seen in the media over the years.
  This year we celebrate the Centenary of coaling in Kent and now is the time to tell the true story, which is not finished yet.

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