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Pat Lindsey began his association with Lydd Town Football Club as a seven-year-old, when he went to watch his older brothers play for the team. He's…

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

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…

Peter Thomas was a teacher at The Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone for more than thirty years. He was also the chief ski instructor at Folkestone…

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

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

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…

As a schoolgirl in the 1970s and 80s, Sam Miller hated running. As of 2019, the Hawkinge resident had taken part in fifteen marathons, completed three…

The establishment of Folkestone Sports Centre in the early 1970s opened up a world of hitherto unimaginable sporting opportunities for residents of…

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