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...
by afms379 | May 29, 2023 | KCHT Blog
This is the story of a remarkable man, captain of Kent for a season, but a national war hero for all seasons. His name was John Evans, and he was born on 1 May 1889 at Highclere in Hampshire, close to Newbury where one year earlier his father had founded Horris Hill...
