This picture shows the greens staff at Wilmslow (in the vicinity of the 4th tee). In the background you can make out the concrete poles erected to prevent enemy aircraft landing.
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County Championship qualifying scores, 1949. Ian Patey, former English Amateur Champion, was making his first appearance having moved to Cheshire from Hampshire.
The Home Guard platoon based at Prestbury G.C. and led by Kenneth Stoker, presented this ship's bell to the club at the end of the war. It was adopted as The Captain's Bell by the club.