Bill Day: A Sporting Life
Title
Bill Day: A Sporting Life
Subject
Bill Day
Description
Hythe resident Bill Day always wanted to be a reporter – that, or an England football player. Here we learn about Bill's long and varied career in journalism – from covering the Romney Marsh as a bicycling cub reporter, to witnessing Zola Budd make her maiden run on British soil in Dartford – as well as his near-lifelong involvement with local football and cricket.
Contributor
Bill Day; Michael Romyn; Oliver Parkin
Relation
For more information on Zola Budd's race in Dartford, see here: https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/510595/100-years-of-Dartford-History-1916-2016/#vars!date=1999-06-21_02:05:18!
Collection Items
Bill Day at Work
Exhausted after a long day's reporting, Bill Day takes a well-earned rest – on his typewriter (1969).
The Lobsters of Hythe
Bill Day (in red) and the touring Lobsters Cricket Club, in Newbridge, South Wales, c.2014. Originally the touring team from Hythe Cricket Club, the Lobsters were led for many years by 'The Lobster King', Dick Apps – 'a legendary man of cricket',…
Kent Messenger Football Team
Bill Day, with the football at his feet, and the Kent Messenger football team in Maidstone during the 1966-67 season.
Village Cricket in the 1950s and '60s
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Bill Day. Listen to him describe playing cricket for Warehorne in the 1950s and early 1960s; travelling to away fixtures in a hearse; inter-village rivalries; matches drawing to a close in time for…
