2010/7

Playing fields: Our Sporting Life in the countryside, Collecting 20th Century Rural Cultures

Turner & Simpson (Maker)

A hole-in-one golf cup awarded to Albert Goodsell, captain of the Society of Derbyshire Golf Captains in 1969.
This is a hole-in-one golf cup made of silver, and standing on a plastic base. It is in the shape of three golf clubs which support a ring designed to cradle a golf ball. It was awarded to Albert Goodsell, captain of the Society of Derbyshire Golf Captains in 1969, for a hole-in-one at the sixth hole of the Chesterfield Golf Club from 190 yards on 6 July 1969. The Club was founded in 1897 and moved to its site on the outskirts of Chesterfield in 1906, growing from nine holes to eighteen holes in the 1920s when it acquired a neighbouring farm.

Trophy: metal, wood, gold ball

MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Description: Hole-in-One golf trophy; silver with plastic base. Missing the golf ball which should be sitting in the top. Hallmarks, that point to Turner and Simpson of Birmingham, 1969. Engraved inscription on base reads 'Chesterfield Golf Club. Captains Day, 6th July. 1969. A Goodsell Hole-in-One, 6th Hole, 190 Yards.' Three golf clubs support a ring, into which the golf ball is supposed to sit. // Dimensions: 11.5cm high x 4.5cm across the top. // Associated information: Purchased as part of the Collecting 20thc Rural Culture project. Albert Goodsell was captain of the Society of Derbyshire Golf Captains in 1969. Chesterfield golf club was founded in 1897 and moved to its present Walton site in 1906. in the late 1920s, the Club acquired Yew Tree Farm and the course was extended from 9 to 18 holes. // References: 'Golf in Britain. A Social History from the beginnings to the present day' by Geoffrey Cousins, 1975.', Collecting 20thc Rural Culture blog [Thursday, 22 April 2010] – 'Golf & the countryside, 1960s // ... // The craze for golf spread to the middle classes in England at the end of the nineteenth century and a flurry of courses began to appear alongside the new suburban villas close to larger towns and cities. Some subsequently disappeared beneath further inexorable housing development but the second half of the twentieth century brought widening popularity to the game and the creation of hundreds of new courses in rural or semi-rural locations. The Dunham Forest Club, for example, is within 30 minutes drive of both Manchester and Liverpool city centres and was formed in 1960 out of wooded parkland that had formerly been part of the Earl of Stamford's estate. It was a process of suburbanising the countryside that still continues. // This is a Hole-in-One golf cup (the top should be cradling the ball) that was awarded to Albert Goodsell for a hole in one at the 190 yard sixth hole of the Chesterfield Golf Club on 6th July 1969. The club's history is not untypical. It was founded in 1897 and moved to its present site on the outskirts of Chesterfield in 1906. It was then only nine holes but in the later 1920s the neighbouring Yew Tree Farm was acquired and a further nine holes added. Selling farmland for conversion to golfing fairways was one possible option for beleaguered estate owners during the inter-war agricultural depression.'

Birmingham

1969 - 1969

Metal, Wood