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ANTIQUES, ROAD SHOWS AND ROAD TRIPS

This has been an exciting summer for both Kent cricket and BBC Television, especially their Antiques division. I qualify for Kent CCC’s Antiques division, and was very excited that the BBC brought both the Antiques Roadshow and the Celebrity Antiques Road Trip to...
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A Photograph from Brighton, 1907

We have recently had donated to the Kent collections a number of photographs dating back to the first and second decades of the last century, all of which show proud cricketers staring back at the camera lens, either before or after their game. The common denominator...
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SWINGING SCOTLAND

The other day, a 51 year old man named Richard Scott broke a world record by sitting continuously on a playground swing for 36 hours. Before you begin to ask a) why? and b) what’s it got to do with cricket?, let me quickly add that this epic world record was set at a...
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A VERY FAST BOWLER

Kent has never had much of a reputation for producing fast bowlers. Spin bowlers – yes, definitely; medium pacers – certainly, but out and out genuine fast bowlers, not so many. Unlike Yorkshire, Notts or Derbyshire who reputedly just had to whistle down a mine shaft...
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WOOLLEY MEMORIES

Birthdays are a mixed blessing. One a year is probably enough, but they are fun when they happen, even though at my age I realise I’ve had most of them already. I’ve long dispensed with party balloons, Pass The Parcel and Musical Chairs, but I’m still partial to a bit...