May 2024
Crowds thronged the County Town’s pavements when Lizzie the Elephant paraded down Maidstone High Street in 1940. This unusual sight was just one way that charismatic Sir Hugh Garrard Twywhitt-Drake, Mayor of Maidstone several times and Kent County Councillor, promoted his zoo at Cobtree Park.
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May 2024
MMF has raised a record £836 from its partnership with a long-established drama group. Friends and guests bought a total of 113 tickets for the sold-out Agatha Christie whodunnit Witness for the Prosecution, performed by the Willington Players
April 2024
MMF-supported Youth Ambassadors and Cur8 volunteers gave a warm welcome to the Archbishop of Canterbury when he visited Maidstone Museum.
The Most Rev Justin Welby spent more than an hour in the museum, viewing the 12th century Lambeth Bible and other Medieval artefacts.
April 2024
Friends and guests were in fine voice as the Maidstone town centre shop once again hummed to the distinctive sounds of three of Kent’s finest folk singers.
For their third annual concert, Bob Kenward (guitar and harmonica), Di (vocal) and John Cullen (guitar) enchanted a large audience on April 11, 2024
March 2024
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses – all familiar figures in the Old Testament and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Think also of Exodus and the parting of the Red Sea. But there is no archaeological evidence to confirm the characters existed or the event happened.
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February 2024
Maidstone United’s historic run in the 2023/24 FA Cup has brought television coverage to the Friends’ Shop.
For many months, the club’s centenary exhibition, curated by Stones’ fan and expert John Bunyard,
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