The arthurenterprises organisation provides administrative and support services for several loosely associated groups including:
The Arthur Sporting Club
Affiliated to the Amateur Athletic Association of England
Corporate Member of the British Academy of Cricket
Incorporating also the Purcell & Johnson Sports and Social Club
The Arthur Sporting Club evolved from wistfully uncertain beginnings around 1973. It now has over 200 members whose abilities range from having achieved national representative honours to sometimes being able to remember who bought the very first round (four pints of Adnams’ Old) after the Ten Bells re-opened.
Major club honours include:
Winning the Lord Mayor’s Relay Race, Norwich, 1978 and 1980.
Jointly winning the Mavis Fisher 5-a-side Football Trophy at Carrow Road, 1999.
Winning quizzes at Margaret Harker Hall, Blofield in 1999, Mulbarton in 2005, & Costessey in 2006.
Narrowly losing in the final of the Ken Ottaway Cricket Shield at Pinebanks, Norwich in 2000.
Widely credited with having discovered Norwich City’s Andy Johnson.
Winning the Football League’s ‘Best Ongoing Sponsorship of a Programme Kiosk’ Award.
The Arthur Underhill Foundation
for Sandcastling and
Other Recreational Pursuits
including artistic endeavours, kite-flying, bemused but always successful blunderings on treasure hunts, synchronised paddling displays, and patronage of events where fruit cake is served.
and The Arthur Mnemotechnical Institute
But not:
The Arthur Summer Outing (1972)
”We took a wrong turn; we just kept going…”
A spirited group of regulars at The Arthur tavern boarded their 1950 Leyland Sunsaloon ‘bus to embark on the usual annual outing in 1972. They haven’t returned yet.
Their only predictable appearance is at the Norwich Beer Festival where their unstinting assistance has come to be appreciated; or at least no longer the subject of litigation, (apart from the goat incident). Indeed, their creation of Old Stoatwobbler (brewed aboard their ‘bus from a heady mixture of fermented fruit peelings, a small tub of Hawker Hurricane engine oil found in a field at Scottow, reduced goats’ grease, a slab of marzipan, a few Rolos, and lashings of the potent fluid that collects on top of brass polish), led to their brew eventually achieving the distinction of being voted Beer of the Festival.
We deny any connection whatsoever with this group of reprobates and deplore their irresponsible attitude to life, sporting endeavour, and gardening.
Club members may enter their password at the top of the page to enable them to blunder happily about the site amidst a bewildering array of statistics, ancient football results, incriminating photographs, and news of what might happen soonish: