OUR Next Meeting – Thursday 28th november
Shepherdswell Village Hall @ 7.30pm
(Please note: our October 31st Open Evening has been cancelled)
Thursday 28th November
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Special Event – The award-winning documentary film producer, Peter Williams MBE, presents his film: A Century of Coal, a unique history of the Kent coal field.
Peter’s film outlines how miners were recruited from all over industrial Britain, to dig coal, discovered by accident in the Garden of England. They brought with them traditions of brass bands, choral singing and whippet racing. But like other migrants, they were strangers in an established community – largely one of folk who lived off the land rather than eaking out a living beneath it.
A Century of Coal is a story of love and hate, great triumphs and crushing disappointments, team spirit and laughter.
Peter Williams has produced documentaries for the BBC, ITV and Channel Four and won awards at Television Festivals across the world. A Kent Ambassador and former president of the Canterbury Festival, he was awarded his MBE in 2007 for services to the arts and television.