The 100 Medway Barge Match Frindsbury Cricketers
The 100th Medway Barge Match st On Saturday 31 May 2008, FOMA members boarded the Kingswear Castle for th the first trip of the summer to follow the 100 Medway Barge Match. Elaine Gardner, FOMA Committee Member, took some wonderful photographs of the race which features barges from Medway’s past: The Newsletter of the Friends of Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre Edme, the eventual winner, at the start of the race Issue Number 11: August 2008 Cygnet, 1881, sails past 21st century shipping Frindsbury Cricketers This photograph from the collection of the Friends of Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre (FOMA) Chairman, Tessa Towner, will evoke memories of long hot (mythical) Kentish summers. Standing from left, John Walter (Tessa’s grandfather), 4th on left at back his brother Arthur (with peaked cap), known as Tom. Seated with cap, another brother, George Walter, landlord of the Royal Oak pub, Frindsbury. Also in the photo are probably several of the seven Skilton brothers, it was their father Joseph Skilton along with the Rev Jackson, vicar of Frindsbury, who started the Cricket Club in 1885. The date of the photograph has been narrowed down to about 1907 to 1909. Repertor, the first barge to reach the outer buoy Other possible names playing at this time were the Anderson brothers Colin and Donald (both killed in WWI), W.J.Coleman, A.Francis, H.Harpum, M.W.Lewry, A.Lines, A.E.Loach, N.McKechnie, D.Nye, and A.Ring. Inside this issue... We say goodbye to Stephen Dixon, Borough Archivist. After 18 years at the Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, Stephen left in June for a new post as Archive Service Manager at Essex Record Office, Chelmsford.
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