 This long commercial and industrial history of Milton Creek generated a need for a large fleet of trading barges at the time, and sadly now that time has passed.A major industry remaining in the area is Milton Pipes, producers of pre-cast concrete drainage pipes.Since 2011–12, a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) funded community oral history project has been taking place in Sittingbourne and Milton Regis recording the memories of people who remember the former industries along Milton Creek, mainly barge-building, brick and cement making, and the paper mills.