Digging deep- the Kent miners celebrating their heritage

The closure followed months of action in the 1980s Credit: ITV Meridian

Many people in Kent don't even know there used be an east Kent coalfield - pits that employed thousands of miners and defined many towns and villages.

But a group of volunteers in one former pit village are determined to preserve the county's coal-mining heritage. John Ryall reports

John spoke to documentary maker Peter Williams and former miners Stuart Elgar and John Kemp.