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'It's the pits, but family club is on right track': Kent Messenger feature on Redoubt Sailing Club, 18 March, 1988.
A SPORT extra (Kent Messenger) feature on Redoubt Sailing Club, detailing all the club had to offer in its 21st year (18 March, 1988). 'Its concrete prefab clubhouse may lack the lustre of the marinas', it states. 'But countless youngsters and adults…
'Lifetime Award for Club Founder': Michael Smailes receives a Royal Yachting Association Community Award, 2006.
A Kentish Express newspaper article, published on 24 August, 2006, which reports on the presentation to Michael Smailes of a RYA Community Award for a Lifetime Commitment to the sport of sailing, in 2006. Also featured is a photograph of Michael…
'Local Hero': Shuna Body awarded MBE
An 2014 article in the Bromley Times chronicling Shuna Body's MBE award and fencing career.
'Oh it was manic, you really could not get courts': Derek Timmins on the popularity of squash at Folkestone Sports Centre in the 1970s.
An excerpt of an oral history recording with Derek Timmins, in which he describes the popularity of the sport - and the rush to book squash courts - at Folkestone Sports Centre in the 1970s. Transcript attached.
'Oh we’d take anybody...as long as they could stand up and put a pair of skis on': The running of Folkestone Ski Centre
In this excerpt of an oral history recording with Peter Thomas, we hear about the operational side of the ski slope at Folkestone Sports Centre in the 1970s and '80s, and its popularity in the town. Transcript attached.
'Optimist' Training Course at Redoubt Sailing Club, c. 1970
A photo of Tony Smith teaching a group of budding young sailors at an 'Optimist Course' at Redoubt Sailing Club in the early 1970s.
'She annihilated me!': Hilary Casey on playing an up-and-coming Abbie Tordoff at Hythe Lawn Tennis Club.
In this excerpt, Hilary Casey tells the story of when she played a match against future Wimbledon player and Hythe Lawn Tennis Club's 'most well known player', Abbie Tordoff. (Transcript attached.)
'So be careful what you talk about in a pub': Joyce Thompson on the founding of Hamstreet Ladies Football Club.
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.)
'That was the only time I’ve hit somebody': Playing football for Hamstreet Ladies
An excerpt from a recording of an oral history interview with Jean Penfold. Jean recollects the team's home pitch at Ruckinge, and the preperation that went into it; the pitch's resident (and vicious) chicken; hitting an opposing (and vicious)…
'The course is one of my preferred courses to play in the world': Chris Reynolds on Littlestone Golf Club
An excerpt of an oral history recording with Chris Reynolds, in which he talks about his more than fifty-year affiliation with Littlestone Golf Club, and why the course keeps drawing him back. Transcript attached.