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Old Dover Road, CANTERBURY, CT1 3ER

Cambridge Arts and Sciences College on 68 New Dover Road. This Teaching block is under going re-development. See http://www.ceg-uk.com/en/catscant/collegecanterbury/about-canterbury/ for more details about the college.

On Barton Road, close to the A2050 New Dover Road.

Looking towards the city centre from the junction with Barton Road.

St. Lawrence, Canterbury is the largest of the 3 grounds used by Kent county cricket club. It has a capacity of 15,000 spectators and was first established in 1847.

At close of play on the third day a Kent win had looked a formality, probably by an innings. However, a stoical Notts rearguard action for much of the final day left Kent needing 168 to win, and after an ill-judged and chaotic chase they ended on the defensive, as shown here, finishing on 86 for 6 as the match was drawn. (At the moment this picture was taken, the Notts fielders surrounded two Kent bats, Ben Compton and Joey Evison, who formerly played for Notts, as did one of the umpires, Paul Pollard.) Kent 446 and 86 for 6, Notts 265 and 348. Match drawn.

Kent had made a formidable first-innings score, bowled Nottinghamshire out and enforced the follow-on on the third day. At the moment I pressed the shutter, Notts' left-handed opening bat Ben Slater was hitting a six over mid wicket. A collapse ensued, and by close of play a Kent win looked a formality. However, a stoical Notts rearguard action for much of the final day left Kent needing 168 to win, and after an ill-judged and chaotic chase they ended on the defensive at 86 for 6 as the match was drawn. Kent 446 and 86 for 6, Notts 265 and 348. Match drawn.

During the lunch interval of the second day of a Kent-Nottinghamshire County Championship match ground staff were sweeping the pitch and re-marking the batting creases at each end and spectators had come to inspect the pitch, which was hard and true. Kent made a big first innings score and enforced the follow-on, but finished up clinging on for a draw in a match they should have won: Kent 446 and 86 for 6, Notts 265 and 348. (The floodlights are the retractable type, like those at Lord's. They appear extended and in use in Image)

This is a view from the Nackington Road End of the Spitfire St Lawrence Ground. On the third morning of a County Championship match Kent were well on the way to bowling Nottinghamshire out for 265 and enforcing the follow-on. (In the event, Notts found more resolve on the final day and Kent were left clinging on to avoid defeat at 86 for 6 as the match was drawn.) Part of the Frank Woolley Stand is on the left. The historic Pavilion with its distinctive pediment and clock is the one which appears in the famous 1906 painting of Colin Blythe bowling against Lancashire which was commissioned by the club to commemorate its first County Championship title. The painting is now at Lord's and a copy hangs in the Canterbury Pavilion.