Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 04/11/2025📣New #Exhibition at #Dover Museum: Crabble Athletic Ground. On the 6th January 1896, four businessmen in Dover formed a syndicate named Dover Athletic Ground Ltd with a plan to create a cricket ground and cycling track. 143
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Frederick Finnis, a timber merchant, Henry Hayward, a surveyor, Alfred Charles Leney, a brewer and James Stilwell, a solicitor. 100
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 04/11/202514 acres of this was dedicated to the athletic ground with terracing, embankment, cycle track and entrance on Crabble Avenue. This would be the foundations of Crabble Athletic Ground as it stands today. 110
