Miners' Festival a success
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Despite a torrent of rain and wintry winds on Sunday,
crowds of ex-miners, their families and people from the pit
villages showed their appreciation for the Kent Miners'
Festival.
Gary Cox, festival committee chairman, said the attendance on
Bank Holiday Monday was testament to the strength of feeling
and camaraderie among former miners.
He added: "It was a humpy bumpy ride
on Sunday and the wind almost blew a gazebo away but the whole
weekend was a success."
Like last year's inaugural festival,
the miners reunion proved popular on Monday for ex-colliers from
the pit villages of Aylesham, Tilmanstone and Hersden and
Betteshanger.
Launched by a pigeon release by former
miner Clive Herbert, a lone piper played to the crowds before they
set about rekindling old ties.
Boxers from around the county put on
an exhibition that took no punches, show-casing work-out skills and
moves as well as sparring and pad work in front of impressed
spectators.
* For full story and three pages of
photographs of the event at Fowlmead Country
Park buy the East Kent Mercury this week.
Tuesday, August 31 2010
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