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For motor sport enthusiast Paul Hatcher, stock car racing was all about participation: ‘I loved…being part of it – the drivers, the club, the social…

As a young boy, Folkestonian Alan Taylor taught himself to swim in the sea. There began a fascination with the water that still endures today. The…

Rodney Kilbee played his first match for Folkestone Optimist Hockey Club in 1959, aged 15. Now in his seventies, and only a few years since he retired…

Londoner Pat Turner attended Nonington College of Physical Education in the Kent village of Nonington in the 1970s. In this interview excerpt, Pat…

In 2014, Folkestone resident and Gurkha, Pradip Rai, was paralysed from the chest down following a surgical operation. In this oral history, Pradip…

From scoring matches as an 11-year-old in the mid-1950s, to serving as Captain in the 1970s, to becoming club President in 2020, John Godden has done…

A pioneer of action sports in Folkestone, Graeme Fuller took up water skiing in the early 1970s, before launching into windsurfing - a sport in which…

Richard Goss joined Folkestone Saints Basketball Club in 1965, aged 16. He remained active with - and instrumental to - the club for the next fifty…

Romney Marsh resident Shuna Body has been deeply involved with disability fencing since the mid-1990s - a service acknowledged in 2014 when she was…

Whether it was boxing, bowls, football, fishing, or tennis, sport has always been 'central' in Alan Bartley's life. In this oral history interview,…