Old Trophies

In the 1970s there were three Badminton Associations in the area currently covered by the current NWKBA: the original North West Kent Region merged with the Orpington Region to form the ONWK Region in the 1980s and that Region merged with the Ravensbourne RBA in 2024 to form the new NWKBA. Originally, each separate region awarded shields or cups to divisional winners but that became a very time consuming process and in recent years only small trophies were awarded to members of the winning teams. All the old trophies were stored by the respective trophy secretaries (Bob Deal, Brian Keegan and Janet Boswell) until the new NWKBA region was formed when it was decided to gather all the trophies together and to dispose of them. The trophies in the attached pictures were given to Gravesham Trophies either to be repurposed or to be sold for charity (or junked if beyond use)