Category Archives: Oral History

Peter Dadson: memories of Shorne Woods clay works

Posted on 13th February 2022 by Ruiha Smalley

I lived on Painters Ash Estate and went to Colyer Road school (Now Northfleet School for Boys). I left there in 1959, when I was 15 and went to work for Blue Circle at Bevan’s cement works, Northfleet. I wanted … Continue reading →

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Ted Goodwin and his sister Patricia Cox remember their Dad and the clay works in Shorne woods

Posted on 13th December 2021 by Ruiha Smalley

Our dad’s name was Edgar (Ted) Amos Goodwin and our mum was Rosina. Our dad was born in 1910 and worked for AEI at Northfleet for 25 years before taking the job of Wet Miller, in the wash plant at … Continue reading →

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Betty Bicker-Robinson: memories of WW2

Posted on 20th January 2021 by Ruiha Smalley

At the beginning of the war I was in my early teens, and each year we used to go hop picking on My Pye’s farm for about seven weeks. Whenever the air raid siren went off, and the German planes … Continue reading →

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Alan Hills: Shorne Woods clay pit operation

Posted on 23rd March 2020 by Ruiha Smalley

Some notes taken in discussion with Alan Hills about the workings of the clay pits at Shorne Woods. Alan worked in the Clay Pit from 1959 – 1963. Navvy Driver load clay into hopper which had a screw blades rotating, … Continue reading →

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Ern

Posted on 17th July 2018 by Ruiha Smalley

Then I went back down the Hall to work, Babs came to  do the washing up.  Mind you down there you did whatever was needed of you, cooking, cleaning, washing up, waiting on tables or anything else.  It made it a … Continue reading →

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