secrets Revealing
CHRIS MOORE OF ROYAL LIVERPOOL’S HERITAGE COMMITTEE REVEALS HOW THE HISTORY OF GOLF AT HOYLAKE IS DISCOVERED AND PRESENTED.
MEMBERS WITH A KEEN EYE will have noticed changes to the heritage displays in our clubhouse, additions which enhance the finest collection of golf memorabilia outside St Andrews. Golfing heritage is far from a dry and
Above: Peter Thomson,
champion golfer of 1956
Above Right:
Hilbre Island by Arthur Ryles
The finest
collection of golf memorabilia outside St Andrews
dusty topic. In fact the world of golf collecting can be dynamic as artefacts emerge unexpectedly and present the Club with exciting opportunities. Last year we received a phone call
from Mrs Lester of Harrogate, who was in possession of an attractive watercolour of Hilbre Island by the well-known and well-liked local artist, George Thompson. Would the Club be interested in buying it? As it happens, the Club already had a Thompson print of the first hole looking west towards the Welsh coast so we were familiar with the quality of his work. It was an easy decision to ask to view the original painting and then agree a price. Both works have the artist’s characteristic representation of the sky and are clearly by the same brush. It now sits proudly among the other paintings in the alcove
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where it helps to define the Hilbre Rooms by theme rather than label. Also in this family of paintings are two
others of particular interest. The first, discovered in poor state buried in the Club’s store room, is an original 1913 painting also of Hilbre Island by Arthur Ryles who was brother to the Dean of Westminster. Re-framed, it now makes a complementary contribution
to this
gallery. The second painting is from 1989 by
D Gordon Brown – father of the late G I (Ian) Brown who was himself a talented artist – and depicts Hilbre Island from within the boundary of the golf course in pleasing detail. All the paintings here, with the splendid oil ‘The Shore’ by M E Royston as centre piece, are to be admired and enjoyed. I n August 2016 we were contacted
through Facebook by an American gentleman, Mr Gregg Krusoe, a private collector of paintings by Arthur Weaver, one of which he wished to sell. The picture was a watercolour of Hoylake’s
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