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By BRIANW

Totally Stumped, Bearsted Green

Today's title refers to my ongoing battle to pay for my annual website subscription. I am no nearer reaching a resolution to it than when I began, even after multiple e-mail communications. Therefore, I've decided it's only worth a maximum 15 - 20 minutes of my time a day. If they can't sort it out then it's their problem not mine - I'm not going to let in ruin my day.
Being A Bank Holiday Monday we decided to go for a short trip to the bucolic (rather posh) village of Bearsted, which is just the other side of Maidstone. We thought it would be nice to visit one of the pubs there we hadn't tried before called The Oak On The Green. The staff were friendly  and the pub was really atmospheric so we will be returning.
Today's image was taken on the beautiful green itself and is a detail of the outside of the cricket team's clubhouse. Here's a little bit of the history of the club itself:

The first recorded reference to cricket in Bearsted was in the "General Advertiser" of Friday 11th. August 1749:
"In the Artillery Ground, Finsbury Square, London, Monday next at 1.00pm Eleven Gentlemen of Bearsted, Kent, play against the Gentlemen of London, for one guinea per man of their own money exclusive of all other by-bets which may be considerable. The Gentlemen having beaten the neighbouring parishes and thereby themselves inferior to few induces them to come so far to play."
This suggests that the Club had been in existence for some time before this date, but no written record has been found.

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