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An extract of a video recording of an oral history interview with Dave Barker. LINK:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQqBOKFt9ZY&t=3s

A video recording of an oral history interview with Graeme Fuller. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8HaH8clDLs

Kent's Sporting Memories exhibition held at Folkestone Sports Centre to celebrate National Sporting Heritage Day, 2019

An oral history interview with Graeme Fuller and a summary of the recording.

A photo of Kent's Stephen Holliday representing Ashford Athletics Club in a Cambridge Harriers League road walking race in 1981

A letter of thanks from Harry Beeson to Folkestone Sports Centre for the retirement party he received at the centre in 1989. Beeson was the coach and founder (in 1979) of the centre's over-55s badminton club.

A letter to the editor by K.P. Gifford (Folkestone and Hythe Herald, 1951) describing the origins of Folkestone Optimists, including an account of how it came to be named: 'One of the most important items on the agenda was the naming of our new…

Transcription of an oral history recording of interviewee Peter Thomas

A photograph of a Kent Messenger newspaper article (c. late-1970s) covering the cricketing lives of Jack and Len Godden - 'two great men of cricket'. The article states that Colin Cowdrey described Jack and Len as the 'second most famous twins in…

A photograph of Jean Penfold's copy of the Kent Womens Football League Members Handbook, 1971. Jean Penfold's team, Hamstreet White Wanderers (later Yellow Star), were members of the Kent Womens Football League