noted: Mine workers emigrated to Kent to get work during the Depression years. An oral history study found that some miners worked for one shift or less and left without trying to collect their pay, such was the heat and lack of ventilation; those softened by a spell of unemployment found it particularly hard. However, it appears that miners' wives disliked their new environment even more, for they missed the warmth of the traditional mining areas, and local people feared and detested the new immigrants. The women's response influenced the high turnover of labour at the collieries: they wanted to go home. See also Kent Miners' Association References External links Betteshanger Colliery photos. Betteshanger Colliery at work photos Photographs Account of a Bevin Boy in Kent during World War Two Gallery of photos of Snowdown Colliery in 2007 Photo of Wingham Colliery History of Kent Mining in Kent Coal mining regions in England Geology of Kent