An excerpt of an oral history recording with Joyce Thompson. Here Joyce describes the problems - and the surprising benefits - of playing football in a sheep field, as well as the importance of her football league for many young women in Kent.…
An excerpt of an oral history recording with Joyce Thompson, in which she describes how she came to start and manage a women's football team in Hamstreet in the late 1960s, despite her lack of interest in football. (Transcript attached.)
A photograph of some of the members of the Hamstreet Ladies Football Club at a reunion event in Ashford, c.1980. Joyce Thompson stands back row, centre.