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Buttermere (Victoria Proprietary Golf Club), Cumbria. (1930s - WW2)
First appeared in the Golfer's Handbook in the mid 1930s; Secretary was John Nicholas Size, Victoria Hotel, Buttermere; green-keeper S Pattison; 9-hole course; Visitors’ fees were 1/- a day and Sunday play was allowed with caddies. The nearest railway station was at Cockermouth 10 miles away. Local hotel was the Victoria.
In 1940 and 1947 secretary still N Size the professional was now E Harrison and the greenkeeper J Houghton. 9-holes, with a SSS and Par of 33. Visitors’ fees now 2/- a day and 10/- a week.
John Nicholas Size was a novelist and writer who originally worked in railway administration; he always had a desire to move to his beloved Lake District. In 1920, he reopened the derelict Bridge Hotel which he renamed The Victoria Hotel. In the 1930s he purchased a further piece of land, a relatively flat area leading down to Crummock, where he developed a nine-hole golf course which was free to hotel guests. The hotel then became known as the ‘Victoria Golf Hotel’.
Judges postcard of the Victoria Hotel.
Ordnance Survey Map from the 1940s showing the Victoria Hotel.
O.S. Map Revised 1948; © Crown Copyright {year of publication 1951}.
Buttermere (Victoria Proprietary Golf Club) had disappeared by 1951.
Leicester Evening Mail Wednesday 15 April 1953. Image © Reach plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.