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From the Local paper 1961.
Above photo showing the Chantry Lane Club, winners of the Canterbury
and District Sports and Social Clubs' Challenge Shield.
Left to right, back: J. Lawson, G. Epps, L. Thomas, V. Luxton
(chairman), R. Hadlow, L. Cork, W. Savage.
Front: C. D. Harffey, T. M. Jenkins, F. Savage (captain), C. Coleman,
D. Wilkinson.
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From an email received 1 August 2014.
This Club is/was on Lower Chantry Lane next to the Red Cross Centre. I have
Gooogled it and it is still listed though I cannot see a sign anywhere
on the street view but it still looks like a clubbish building and
garden area.
My Father and Uncle would go there occasionally in the 60s and 70s,
especially if there was a well known personality from the world of
darts. On several occasions a top player was invited to give an
exhibition and Dad and Uncle George would invariable ‘take them on', as
would countless others. Uncle George (Travers) once came within a
whisker of beating the World Champion, Leighton Rees (according to Uncle
George).
Dad was a player of some renown in East Kent darting circles and I
have attached a picture of him, Ivor (Derby) Eaton, taken in The Chantry
in the mid sixties, being presented with a very attractive table as the
winner of an invitation singles competition.
All the best,
Stuart Eaton.
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