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North Staffordshire Golf Club, Burslem. (1890s)
The North Staffordshire Golf Club first appeared in the 1893 with a nine-hole course on Moorland Road.
The president of the club was Lord Dartmouth who was also president of the South Staffordshire Golf Club.
Report on a meeting held in September 1894.
Staffordshire Sentinel Friday 14 September 1894. Image © Reach plc.
First competition played in September 1894.
Staffordshire Sentinel Wednesday 26 September 1894. Image © Reach plc.
Below is a mention of the North Staffordshire Club in 1896.
Huddersfield Daily Examiner Thursday 13 February 1896. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
From 1896 Kelly's Directory - "North Staffs Golf Club House, P Bates (hon. sec.), Longport, Wolstanton, Stoke."
Thanks to Dixon Pickup for the image below and for the following text regarding regarding this little known club. “Despite exhaustive efforts by the leading research luminaries, namely John Llewellyn (‘Golf’s Missing Link's web-site), Rex Butler and Howard Ripley, little has been traced. The back mark however maybe the clue to the hoped for recognition. The button, a player’s jacket example is of the finest quality gilt, a burnished rim, lined ground, the usual weaponry, Knot Simpliciter and the four letters. The back mark sponsor was William Bates, Burslem, at this time c1905, he was the third generation head of Burslem’s leading gentlemen’s tailors and outfitters, occupying premises at 23 Market Place. The business had been founded in 1820 by J F Bates, William’s grandfather. The present Burslem Golf Club was opened in 1907 as a 9-hole course and has remained so. Whether Bates and other gentlemen wished the club to be named ‘North Staffordshire’ is a matter of pure conjecture, but Bates felt confident enough to order up some buttons. This item appeared in the North Star and Farmers’ Chronicle of 27 April 1911, “The Grand Duke Michael of Russia has presented to the Newcastle, Staffordshire, Golf Club, of which he is president, a silver cup, to be called the Coronation Challenge Cup.’ Newcastle Golf Club had been formed in Staffordshire in 1908. intriguing button?”
Image courtesy of Dixon Pickup.
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Ordnance Survey Map from the 1890s showing Moorland Road to the north. Just off the map, to the north, was Borough Park (now Burslem Park), possible location of the course?
O.S. Map Revised 1898; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1900}.