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Post by porkystone on Oct 6, 2019 10:21:17 GMT
Finally got round to buying the associated book yesterday - top quality effort that, thoroughly good read, highly recommended etc.
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Post by aristotle38 on Oct 6, 2019 13:11:07 GMT
Anyone know how long the exhibition is on for? Beyond Xmas?
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Post by porkystone on Oct 6, 2019 14:39:24 GMT
Anyone know how long the exhibition is on for? Beyond Xmas? Until 18 Jan 2020 apparently.
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Post by stewart on Oct 6, 2019 15:11:02 GMT
I'm planning on attending the exhibition in November when i next get a day orf
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Post by valorient on Oct 13, 2019 1:57:21 GMT
Will be there on October 8 for the Gullands reception/Maidstone companies & organisations evening get together. Can’t wait. You mean free piss up Well obvs! 😉
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Post by daveu on Nov 17, 2019 17:05:47 GMT
Went to this Saturday afternoon. Well worth the hour and a half I spent there while the missus did Christmas shopping.
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Post by pedant on Nov 17, 2019 17:16:32 GMT
Went to " this Saturday afternoon. Well worth the hour and a half I spent there" while the missus did Christmas shopping. Can those who watched the Stones at Dartford say the same thing?
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Post by headstone on Nov 18, 2019 10:44:55 GMT
I was at the museum on Saturday too, but before travelling to Dartford. While there I met John and Judith, the son and daughter in law of 1930's Maidstone goalkeeper Bill Smallwood who was killed at Arnhem (before John was born, so he never met him) - there's a photo in a display case of his widow at his gravestone in Holland. They had travelled up from Wales the day before specifically to visit the museum as they'd lent some photos (including that one) to John Bunyard. They found pictures of Bill in the team photos on the photo kiosk which they hadn't seen before. It was quite a moving experience talking to them, and Judith was in tears at the end. I had imagined that the exhibition was to educate the newer fans about our history, but this made me realise that it is also an archive for the families of former players, a contact with the past they might never have seen if the exhibition hadn't been mounted.
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Post by seanstone on Apr 20, 2020 18:30:23 GMT
Evening all, just wanted to post an email I received from Mr John Bunyard as part of the work I do with the Old Maidstonian Society: "Dear All Thanks for the latest Newsletter. I just wanted to let you know that the talk I gave before Christmas at Maidstone Museum, which you kindly advertised in the last Newsletter, was a sell-out. Interestingly, there were some heavy hitters in the audience from the Kent sports scene. It led directly to the start of discussions about the possibility of developing more than one permanent exhibition of Kent sports and social history. Not a bad result! Needless to say, the Covid crisis has put it all on ice for the moment. Since the public appetite is obviously there, however - 20,400 visitors came to the Maidstone exhibition - I thought we must keep the flame burning. So I've been working furiously on a major new website concerning Kent's amazing history. If I get to the end, it will contain over 800 exhibits; but, as a lot of people are already going a bit stir-crazy, I've just posted the first 10%, which ought to keep anyone occupied for an hour or two. It's now up at oldbunyardskentpride.com/ Please do take a look, and by all means share it around. Regards John" So yeah, oldbunyardskentpride.com/ to take a look at all things Kent Sports and hopefully the website will be expanding as time goes by. Stay Safe Sean
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Post by jdl on Apr 20, 2020 21:15:30 GMT
The book that accompanied the exhibition is well worth getting, if it's still on sale.
In fact, if you're looking for a late/early Christmas present for a Stones fan, especially one who remembers the old club/ground, I recommended buying that book, along with Bill's autobiography and Fred's Exodus.
Read those three, and you'll know just about all you'll ever need to know about Maidstone United.
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Post by soulstone on Apr 20, 2020 21:52:38 GMT
Exhibition was great but I think they missed a trick by not putting it online after it had finished. Must have been lots of stuff that was never shown which could have been online.
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Post by jdh80 on Apr 21, 2020 5:41:49 GMT
Exhibition was great but I think they missed a trick by not putting it online after it had finished. Must have been lots of stuff that was never shown which could have been online. The problem is you have to have a cut off point otherwise you'd still be collecting and collating information pictures and other memorabilia etc. I think tim said john spent two years working on it, but you can be sure he has loads of other bits around, the thing is putting together the exhibition and the book and online content takes time. I remember a couple years back doing a photobook for my mums dancing school to celebrate 40 years, i got loads of other photos and bits that never made it to the book, there are still well over 800 pictures that have been scanned and not sorted through at all, as well as loads of other photos scanned and sorted in folders for year/show etc. The thing was i had a cut off date and needed to have it with the graphic designer by a certain date so he could do his bits and then get it to the printers for them to print and ship to me in time for a show where the book was presented on stage to my mum. I did have plans of a special event and get the other pictures etc on display but time, work and life in general got in the way and now 2 1/2 years have passed since the photobook was produced and the pictures are all still saved on an external hard drive and nothing more done with them.
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Post by headstone on Nov 9, 2022 16:09:23 GMT
Exhibition was great but I think they missed a trick by not putting it online after it had finished. Must have been lots of stuff that was never shown which could have been online. The exhibition is actually being revived in miniature at the Maidstone Museum Friends shop - it used to be Thomas Cook, opposite Patisserie Valerie in Fremlin Walk. It opened on Saturday, when the mayor had a great time scoring penalties in the rain! Some of the exhibits will be those not shown in the original display, and will change from time to time, so it'll be worth popping back in every few weeks to see the new stuff (because entry is free). I'm looking forward to the section on Maidstone's ten best goalkeepers which I'm told will follow the current display on the legacy of the main museum event.
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Post by Sennockian69 on Nov 10, 2022 7:34:17 GMT
Will Hadler or Mersin be on display?
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Post by Better things to do in life on Nov 10, 2022 14:38:27 GMT
How about a punt at the best ten..............in no particular order mine would include
Lee Worgan Derek Richardson Mark Beeney Iain Hesford Nicky Johns Dickie Guy Derek Bellotti Grant Smith Ross Worner .......errrr Tom Hadler? (Im running out of steam - who Have I missed?)
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