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castle261:
Featherstone`s on the border of Rochester & Chatham - in the the High Street - has received a cash grant & is now repairing `Chatham House`.
The front part will be restored by March this year - then they will start - the restore of the interior of the building,
The garden opposite - is also boarded off - More news as the repair`s - are completed.

AlanTH:
I didn't actually take it down any mine Martin, it was for use in my room at night for personal pleasure. I never worked in a coal mine either but did in iron ore, copper and gold mines. Underground and open caste as a mechanical fitter fixing all sorts of machinery.
AlanH.

 

MartinR:
Hi AlanTH.  What sort of mine?  I only ask because taking electrical apparatus down a coal mine in the UK is a really big serious NO.

castle261:
Another man who won £75,000 on Vernon Pools worked on ships around the 1950s - I know his name - but will not use it on here. He ALWAYS said ` I am going to win the pools ` & he did. I understand he bought three more houses  for the family members. I did a drawing of the dockside - of a hut where his win was recorded -I painted it later         I have it somewhere - I had forgotten,his name - until now. ----------------- ( A nice piece of local knowledge )

AlanTH:
Mother used to take us to Featherstones quite often when we were little kids and we watched amazed at the Lampson system with those canisters whizz along. When we lived on Maidstone Road  in Cookham Wood a chap who worked there and lived down the road won the pools, 75K quid.  This was around the late 50s from memory. He gave up work as a bedding salesman there immediately and bought a house in Priestfields.
75K  was a lot of brass in those days and I wouldn't mind it today either.
Actually I bought a Panasonic radio (about 20 quid) from them back in around 1978 which I still have sitting next to my computer which I often turn on and listen to. Not bad value and still going well after 43 years and being used in many remote mine sites here in Oz when I worked in them. It was the only means of hearing the news in those days if in that sort of area. No mobiles, no TV and sometime a very long drive to a phone to call home.
Bit off topic that. :)
AlanH.

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