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Hersden - Chislet Colliery Village
Researched and written by Ross LlewellynISBN 0 9544789 1 66. Published in 2003.Price: £9.95 This A4 size softback about Hersden and Chislet Collery and village has 87 pages and includes many old photographs. These include photographs of village life, and photographs of life in Chislet Colliery |
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Hersden - Chislet Colliery Book wins Award
This book has been nominated as joint winner of the John Hayes Canterbury Award for 2004. The panel of judges commented:
Mr Llewellyn's writing debut, Hersden: Chislet Colliery Village, is a colourful study of the life of a mining community between 1919 and 1969.
Mr Llewellyn writes:
I worked at the Chislet Colliery first as a boy before going to sea for almost 4 years, then from 1959 until 1969, and moved to Tilmanstone mine, until retirement in 1986. The book has been a real labour of love for me and a really pleasurable experience.
Local historical articles on Hersden - Chislet Colliery Village
This book has been written by Ross Llewellyn with contributions from local historians and experts and includes the following articles:
The birth of the Kent Coalfield
Chislet Colliery
Hersden Housing
The Mineworkers Welfare Fund - and the Pithead Baths
Kentish Gazette articles from 1937
The Black Hut
Chislet Colliery Workers Medical Aid and Benevolent Society
Opening of the Welfare Grounds
Chislet Colliery Welfare Association
Village Pioneers
Chislet Colliery Welfare Silver Band
Roy Gowen
Charlie Baillie
Hersden County Primary School 1929-1961
Hersden Old Wooden School
Early days at Hersden School
Colliery Colony
Herdsen Methodist Church - the great opening day
The Church in Hersden
Roy Taylor
The War Years
Experiment at Chislet Colliery - snow storm in a mine
Nationalisation
Growing up in Hersden
Coronation Day
Chislet locos
Tommy Bell
Mining Trainee
Pit Ponies
Future of Chislet Colliery
Chislet's Unusual trolley loco system
Kent Pit language
Hersden and Chislet book
This book would appeal to anyone who has lived in or has family who come from Hersden or Chislet, and also to those interested in mining life in Britain.