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Kent County cricket grounds : 150 years of cricket across the Garden of England

Milton, Howard2020

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There are three good and useful Forewords, from the Presidents of the county club, the Kent County Cricket Supporters Club and the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust. The main strength of the book soon follows, this being a very detailed review of all 18 grounds used by Kent for First Eleven matches since 1870, 150 years prior to the date of publication of this book, which was planned to help mark the county club’s 150 years celebration that, because of the pandemic, will not turn out quite as planned or expected. For those 18 grounds, there are 188 pages allocated in this quite sumptuous book of 239 pages. And for each of those grounds there are their histories with very detailed backgrounds and origins, club affiliations, personalities of their past and development, local dignitaries of importance and influence, and much other information; features on some unique aspects of the ground concerned (such as the Lime Tree at Canterbury, the Folkestone Festival, The Tabernacle at The Mote in Maidstone, the Tonbridge Nursery and the pavilion fire of 1913 at Tunbridge Wells); a host of memorable matches are recalled; and, for each ground, there is a short but valuable Records section.