During the War, East Kent Colliery Company’s Tilmanstone Colliery made a profit and in the couple of years that followed, further sinking of No 3 shaft took place with the plan to reach the deep but rich Milyard seam. However, in the early 1920s, the company was hit by the prevailing economic depression and cheaper imported coal. Production was already reduced and in 1922, a severe in-burst of water into the Beresford seam cut production even more. That year Dorman Long joined forces with Viscount Cowdray to form Pearson and Dorman Long Ltd. The new company immediately started the preliminary work on what eventually became Betteshanger Colliery and through the Channel Steel Company, they proposed the building of a steel works on the cliffs between Dover and St Margaret’s.
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