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Front cover of Kent's Sporting Memories, a new book created by the Kent's Sporting Memories project celebrating the recent history of sport in east Kent.

A photograph of Cheriton Road football ground's main stand after it was destroyed by fire in 1973.

An aerial photograph of Cheriton Road football ground's main stand in its original Harbour Approach Road location, in c. 1919.

A photograph of the Folkestone Optimist Hockey Club first XI (1967/68 season), taken at the Cheriton Road ground. Rodney's brother Toby (Kilby) is front row, left.

A photograph of Folkestone Optimist Hockey Club's first XI, taken at Cheriton Road Sports Ground in c. 1949.

A photograph of Derek Timmins at his home in Folkestone, Kent, in September 2019

A Folkestone & Hythe Express article (5 June, 2019) publicising our project

Kent Players in the 1968 England Netball Team

Photographs (and an associated press cutting - Folkestone Herald, October 1950) of a 14-year-old Alan Taylor, who in October 1950 won Folkestone Boat Festival's 'Cod Cup' - a prize for the heaviest aggregate catch of cod over the three day event. As…

A photograph of Paul and Jackie Stewart, taken in June 2016. Paul has long been an admirer of Jackie, having first watched him race at Brands Hatch in 1969. He named his sons Stuart and Mark (the name of Jackie's youngest son) in honour of the racing…