CHARLES TAYLOR AND CANTERBURY CRICKET WEEK

CHARLES TAYLOR AND CANTERBURY CRICKET WEEK

  This year we held the 167th Canterbury Cricket Week, in July rather than August because of the vagaries of the cricket fixture list, which gave Kent no first class games in the county during the month of August. Thus we had a Vitality Blast match against Surrey...
CHARLES TAYLOR AND CANTERBURY CRICKET WEEK

KENT’S FIRST OVERSEAS PLAYER

We have been wondering recently who was Kent’s first overseas player. These days, every county has a whole raft of overseas players (not that they arrived in Britain on a raft, necessarily), and in Kent we have two born in South Africa – Dickson and Kuhn, three from...
CHARLES TAYLOR AND CANTERBURY CRICKET WEEK

LAND AND WATER

Sometimes a stone gets turned over almost by accident, to reveal a long forgotten part of Kent cricket history, and names which mean nothing to us now but which a century and a half ago were on everybody’s lips. An article in a recent issue of Trout and...
CHARLES TAYLOR AND CANTERBURY CRICKET WEEK

NAMING OF PARTS

Henry Reed, the Second World War poet, wrote a poem called “Naming Of Parts.” It begins “Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning.” It is a great poem, and it re-emerged from the back of my mind, stored there since the days of my ‘O’ Level...
CHARLES TAYLOR AND CANTERBURY CRICKET WEEK

TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

The Kent Cricket Heritage Trust’s AGM will take place on 11th May, in the Chiesman Pavilion after close of play. The Chairman’s Statement has just been issued, as follows:   CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2017/18 The Heritage Trust is happy to report another...