"Cuba Night" - 22nd July 2011

A summer's evening of music and fun at the Hythe Cricket & squash Club in Hythe, Kent in aid of four cancer charities.

Starting at 7.30pm there will be Cuban music and a live performer Cheryl Preston (who will be singing Jazz and Latin songs)

There will also be an auction of ' Hythe Cricket Pavillion' (1960) an oil painting of the original club house by Patricia Holt-Wren. (Any sealed bids can be hand in over the bar at the cricket club; reserve £75).

At the end of the evening the grand prize draw will take place. Prizes have been donated by various restaurants, businesses and a celebrity:

  • Autographed copy of Dawn French's award-winning novel: A Tiny Bit Marvellous
  • The Nutmeg Cafe, Hythe (Gift voucher for food)
  • The Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant, Hythe (£50 gift voucher)
  • The Cuban Restaurant, Canterbury (3 course meal for 2)
  • Café Des Amis (a meal for two)
  • The Vinodhon Tandoori Restaurant, Hythe (Food gift voucher)
  • The Mercure Hythe Imperial Hotel (Spa day for two)
  • Stephen Bailey Landscaping (Half-day gardening services)
  • Simmons the Jewellers, Hythe (gift)
  • Oak's the hairdresser, Hythe (£50 of hair products & voucher for £42)
  • Deeson's Restaurant, Canterbury (meal for 2)
  • Santander Bank (Fisher Space Pen)
  • Chris Shore, Dungeness (professional photographer - framed black & white photo entitled: 'Lone Tree')
  • The Hythe Bay Fish Restaurant (A meal for 2 - £75)
  • The Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury (cinema tickets for 2)
  • Hythe Cycles ( 1day's hire for 2)
  • Australian Cricket Coaching Session (1:1)
  • Royal Military Canal Rowing Boat Hire (2 hr electric boat trip for 8)
  • Waitrose Supermarket (picnic for 8 to accompany boat trip)
  • Eastwell Manor, Ashford ( 3 course, Table d'Hote Dinner for 2)
    Raffle Tickets: 50p each/£2 a strip
    Members can buy tickets at the bar (or on the night)

Hythe Cricket Pavillion (1960)

Artist: Patricia Holt-Wren N.D.D, A.T.D.

A life-time of painting, textile & costume design, interiors, teaching, lecturing, theatrical scenery and decor … Pat won a major county award to study Art and Design for 5 years at colleges of her own choice: Kingston College of Art; Hammersmith College of Art; and London University; followed by a post-graduate course in Art History, History of Architecture, Fine Art and Sculpture at The Royal Academy Schools. Re-locating to the Kent coast, Pat taught Art and Design in Dover School of Art and Folkestone School of Art and for over 20 years was Head of Art at Brockhill & St.Leonard's. Pat has exhibited in numerous galleries and still undertakes commissions. In 1960, the cricket pavilion was under threat of demolition being constructed of timber and clapboard. Pat found the building interesting: reminiscent of Edwardian times. By keeping a record of the original club house, in oils, she felt others would be able to appreciate it when it was gone however, it remained standing until destroyed by an arson attack in April 2004.