by afms379 | May 29, 2024 | KCHT Blog |
On Friday 24 May 2024, the Annual General Meeting of the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust was held at the Spitfire Ground, at close of play after the first day of Kent’s championship match against Essex. The report from the chair summed up a year of steady progress...
by afms379 | Mar 6, 2024 | KCHT Blog |
Betty Archdale, England’s first women’s Test captain Helen Elizabeth “Betty” Archdale, of Kent and England, captained the first women’s team to tour Australia and New Zealand, in 1934/35. Born in London on 21 August 1907, she came from a campaigning...
by afms379 | Jan 25, 2024 | KCHT Blog |
The Lawrence Trophy was instituted in 1934 by Sir Walter Lawrence, a successful builder and keen promoter of all sports, and is given to the player who scores the fastest century of the season, “with the object of encouraging brighter cricket and stimulating public...
by afms379 | Sep 10, 2023 | KCHT Blog |
George Kennedy and his gates When the redevelopment of the St Lawrence Ground began over a decade ago, the turnstile gates on the Old Dover Road were among the bits that had to be demolished. They were of no great architectural merit, but when they were first built...
by afms379 | Aug 7, 2023 | KCHT Blog |
In 1922, British Pathé News filmed a young woman called Muriel Maxted batting and bowling in Ashford. (You can find this 55 second clip at https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/49379/). They called her “Doctor Grace In Petticoats”. Yet despite her cricketing fame at...
