Books
A collection of thoughts and opinions, interspersed with a few facts.
Kent Cricket Publications
During the cricket season, Secondhand Book Sales are held at the Spitfire Ground (alongside the Cricket Memorabilia Fairs) with a wide selection of cricketing hard & paperbacks, autobiographies, Kent Annuals & Yearbooks, Testimonial brochures, Wisdens, etc.
Kent County Cricket Grounds
written by Howard Milton with Peter Francis, celebrating 150 Years of Cricket across the Garden of England.
Kent can make a very strong claim to having the greatest tradition of cricket in the world. No small part in this are the many and various grounds in Kent on which the ‘county club’ has played. This is truly a comprehensive account of county cricket across the Garden of England supported by an extensive collection of illustrations (over 330), including those of how these grounds or their sites look today.
“Everything about this book is excellent, I have to say at the outset of this review. It is the product of 40 years of painstaking research by Howard Milton … aided and supported by Peter Francis … The book is marvellously illustrated, with a great array of photographs; of matches, players and action; pictures of scorecards and handbills; reproductions of old drawings, portraits and the like.”
A Legend Dies
written by David Robertson (former Curator of the KCHT).
The story of Kent Cricket’s legendary Lime Tree with a famous cricketing history.
A tribute to the Tree’s significance and standing in the club’s history.
“There it lay, trunk snapped at a point some seven feet from its base, at rest just outside the playing area. It looked like a giant, hungry crocodile with jaws wide open waiting to swallow its quarry,”