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Village football club is focus of picture book
LOCAL history and sporting buffs will be delighted with the emergence of a new book, highlighting the highs – and a few lows – of Bearsted Foot- ball Club. Retired civil engineer Ian Lambert
has spent three years compiling the extensive pictorial history, with some fascinating photos culled from the archives aswell as memories of more up-to-date events. Mr Lambert, from Roseacre Lane,
has been involved with the village cricket club for more than 60 years and first played for the football club in 1956, when he was still at school. He played until 1969 when his
work took him to Hertfordshire, re- turning in 1977, by which point he claims: “I was too old!” Mr Lambert also played a few
games with the Maidstone United re- serves when the club was based in London Road. “A History of Bearsted Football
Club” – bearing the club’s familiar brown bear logo – charts the progress of the club from its forma- tion in 1895 to the present day,
through its domination of the local football scene in the 1970s to its cur- rent ambitions of playing in the Kent Amateur League. The book also documents the for- mation of the junior teams, the links with the French club of Archeres, and the Sunday and veteran teams. The importance of the social club
and fundraising is highlighted and there is a tribute to the late Ray Hutchins, who gained two England youth caps before coming to play for Bearsted. The A4 book has 250 pages and
Ian Lambert with the book he has written on the history of Bearsted Football Club
contains more than 100 photographs and illustrations. Priced £19.99, it can be obtained
via the club’s website –
www.bearst-
edfc.co.uk . All profits from the sale will go to-
wards floodlights and facilities for the club at its ground in Honey Lane, Otham. Mr Lambert said: “The club changed dramatically in the 1970s when all the new housing was built. The club is now bigger and better than it has ever been – but needs fa- cilities to match.”
News Teenagers die
in A20 crash POLICE are appealing for wit- nesses following the death of two teenagers, both from Maidstone, after a crash on theA20 in Bearsted. Officerswere called to a red Ford
Ka that left Ashford Road in the early hours of Saturday, January 25 before hitting a tree and rolling on to its roof. Gary Ring (18), the driver, was pronounced dead at the scene. The passenger Brett Pearson (19), who was his cousin, died in hospital in London on the Monday. Tributes poured in on a Facebook tribute page. Chantel-Louise Ring wrote: “I love you both uncondi- tionally and if love alone could save you, you never would have died. Sleep tight my handsome an- gels, I’ll see you again one day.” Witnesses who have any infor- mation should call police on 01622 798538.
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