Oral History
The CHIK project was set up to record and commemorate the coalfield communities of Kent though the collection of photographs and oral reminiscences.
Our Oral History Collection
Below is a selection of sound files from our Oral History Collection
Coming to Kent
SR27-1 Move to Kent
SR40-1 to Kent
Sport
SR75-3 Bowling Snowdown
SR75-3 Playing football Snowdown
SR75-3 Semi-pro footballers 50's
SR75-3 Three pits run
The Community
SR15-1 Duties of miners wife
SR15-1 Night shift quiet children
SR15-2 Social club Ramsgate
SR40-1 Elvington ashy tip sledging
SR40-1 Houseproud
SR40-1 Miners daughter
SR40-2 Sense of community
SR65-1 Miners child
SR75-1 Memory of mother and panikity
SR75-1 Perception of self as miners child
SR75-1 Women gossiping
SR75-1 Bows and arrows
SR75-2 Social 1950's
SR75-3 Safety of Aylesham and honesty
SR75-3 Sense of community and memory
SR75-3 Tunnel vision in Aylesham
SR75-4 Buying on tick
SR75-4 Mother working the fields
SR75-4 Women 1984 strike
SR76-1 Every mother mine
Work
SR10-1 Asleep in pit
SR15-2 First day
SR15-2 Never seeing daylight
SR15-2 Purpose of pits
SR15-2 Work and bed
SR37-1 Chewing tobacco
SR37-1 Making and wearing clogs
SR37-1 Playing tricks
SR37-1 Snap time
SR37-2 Mice
SR40-1 Job at Coalboard offices
SR65-2 Duties of Undermanager
SR65-2 Underground
SR75-2 Butty system Snowdown
SR75-2 Description of Pan turning
SR75-2 Discipline on pit bottom the corporal
SR75-2 Job on haulage and communal spirit
SR75-2 Loading 60-40 system
SR75-2 Screens
SR76-3 Wages 1940's Durham Kent
WWII
SR40-1 Food during WWII
SR40-1 Restricted area WWII
SR40-1 WWII enemy fire Elvington
SR75-3 Betteshanger and Snowdown rugby