





My County of Kent is no different to many places in Wales, Northern England etc with the loss of the coal mines Betshanger, Snowndon and Tilmonstone also the RN dockyards at Chatham and just recently the steel works on the Isle Sheppy. For a county that is considered to be a wealthy area we have East Kent with very deprived areas after the mines closed and still so, Dover used to have a Paper Mill and Steel works they have gone. Maidstone had paper mills and have just one mill still producing, A car engine factory all now gone. The Medway towns still haven't recovered from the dockyard closure and the Island of Sheppy still reeling from the closure of the steel works last year. In many places here the community spirit has gone as people commute to London get home late, leave early in the mornings and the weekend is short, they don't know their neighbors and only moved down here because the housing is cheaper than London and transport links are good. We used to have a vibrant agricultural community built up around the villages where the work was done by in the main by the village women now those people have moved away to be replaced by the so called upwardly mobile classes who would not go apple picking, potato picking, strawberry picking etc and the farmers now have to call in foreign contractors to do the work. The Romney Marsh now longer is the producer of sheep as many pastures have been turned over to rape seed because it is no longer profitable to rear sheep. I miss those long lost days what has happened to our glorious country.

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