Kent After Dark: Working Ghosts is a haunted journey through the working lives that shaped Kent: its vanished industries, ports, yards, railways, farms, shops, factories, airfields, ferries, markets and street trades. This sixth book in the Kent After Dark series explores a different kind of ghost. Not only the phantom in the churchyard or the figure on the lonely road, but the memory of people who clocked in, lifted, carried, brewed, baked, wired, printed, picked, packed, repaired, served and came home tired. From Ashford Railway Works, Chatham Dockyard and Sheerness to Faversham’s powder mills, the East Kent coalfield, Pegwell Bay hovercraft, Lympne and Manston airfields, Rediffusion cables, local newspapers, milk rounds, butcher’s bikes, hop gardens, orchards, markets, rag-and-bone carts and lost engineering firms, this book uncovers the working ghosts still present in Kent’s landscape. Part local history, part memory walk and part literary exploration, Working Ghosts honours the ordinary people behind the county’s familiar places. It is a book about labour, pride, danger, skill, community, loss and the traces left behind when work leaves the building.