CAST LIST

Aaron ‘Ace’ Adair     A retired pilot with a huge ginger moustache and remarkable appetite for gin who intended to play badminton with us to get fit again after breaking his leg playing golf! Unfortunately he decided to motorcycle across South America instead. He would, we feel, have been an asset to the club.

Abi   She came to us in for badders in 2021, partly as Pam’s chauffeuse. She continued into 2023, but moved to Hellesdon and began playing for Tasburgh Badminton Club. We did not receive a transfer fee.

Abilash     He was sitting about at the Wensum Sports Centre on 27 May 2015 and decided he could head our alphabetical list of members by having a game of badders. (He was unaware of Aaron ‘Ace’ Adair). 

Adam Maynard     Arrived with Paul Howe to play cricket whilst they were youthful. Went orf to university…

Adam Ramsbottom     Son of Chris. He played 9 cricket matches for us in his youth.

Adrian     Joined us for badders in January 2017.

Alan ‘Basher’ Barnes    A cricketer of uncertain origin. Possibly recruited from the all-in wrestling bill at Lowestoft; more probably from Lime Tree Road Squash Club.

Alan    A good badders bod, but an absent one. He might have a second name, but we failed to discover it.

Alan Barber   A badders bod recruited in 2015 from Chris, Pam & Hazel’s nameless Friday morning group.

Ali Collins     Wife to Peter. Recruited to our ten-pin bowling tournament in 2013. 

Allan Howles     Came to Arthur Enterprises on 9 July 1973. We transferred him to the City Hall Architects Department on 21 September 1973 as he had failed to buy a round. He was the referee when they beat us 9-1 at footy. Designated an Outcast. 

Uncle Arthur Boyt     The uncle of Steve and Richard Whitbourn, he lived at Bodmin Moor. A fine runner, born 1939, who represented us in the 1980’s. By February 2022 poor Arthur was very ill. He died in the summer of 2023.

Amitabh     Came from In-jah to play badders, then went back there, then came back again, then disappeared. 

Amy Williams     A gold medallist in the Winter Olympics, she was installed as an Associate Member for having named her bob skeleton ‘Arthur’.

Andrew & Jo Armes     Andrew came to Bethel Street on 27 January 1969 from a universe where things are very different. He wandered away from Enterprise House on 25 July 1975 and went (not, as he had planned, by steering a Thames barge around the coast from Lowestoft) to the London Borough of Islington, to Oxford, then became Chief Architect with Milton Keynes Council, and did things they considered to be important, until he escaped. A platinum blonde. His friend’s dad, he has often reminded us, used to race whippets. On Thanksgiving Day 2010 in Los Angeles he was voted Best Lineman in a game of American Football (despite being dressed as the policeman from the Village People). It is feared Andrew may never become a grown-up. Jo is still gorgeous and does tai chi with her fans. They established their own business ‘Architecture AA’, and once stayed in the hotel room in which Reggie Kray died, though not at the same time. Jo suffers from plantar fasciitis (a pain in the foot) and from Andrew having formed the Soft Anarchy Movement. Jo’s hearing has deteriorated, which may occasionally be a blessing. Daughters Nellie, Zizzy, and Alice have adventures, and children of their own. A French au pair fits somewhere in the story. 

Andrew Asquith     One of Her Majesty’s Civil Servants who we found to be rather more enthusiastic when displaying his sporting prowess. He progressed to laying carpets and was thus too tired to play any more cricket for us.

Andy Berry and Paula Hannant   Badders bods. They became entwined whilst they were supposed to be concentrating on playing badminton with us, went off to get married, and didn’t come back. 

Andrew Duffield     A fast bowler who did things with Tony Gurney-Read.

Andrew Freebrey     Andrew came to us on loan from Feilden + Mawson, returning on 25 January 1985. An architectural and artistic bod who occasionally wielded a squash racket or cricket bat. He died, suddenly at home at Scarning Hall, on 11 January 2010, aged 66.

Andrew Howorth     Architectural bod. Arrived at Enterprise House on 1 December 1980. Migrated south. He left our Centre of Excellence at Colchester (motto: Keep Innocency and Take Heed Unto the Things That Matter) for London in the spring of 1985 wearing a blue lurex jacket. He called at Castle Arthur on 20 December 1992 to report the arrival of his son Charles Edward (named, obviously, after Le Corbusier, a racehorse). He lives in Lancaster, (at least he was still there in December 2014), and became Principal Architect of Lancashire County Council.

Andy Johnson     Granted Full Membership whilst A Youth. He subsequently progressed to playing (amidst various adventures) for Norwich City and, after qualifying for them by once having once gone there when young after getting on the wrong train at Bristol Temple Meads, for Wales. We earned a Gunn & Moore cricket bat by agreeing not to invoke our Rule 54 (a) iv – viii ‘Membership Restrictions and Unauthorised Relationships with Third Parties’ and thus allowing his lucrative transfer from City to Nottingham Forest to proceed. Thereafter, in a complex and not fully documented arrangement with Norwich City, we undertook ongoing responsibility for The Arthur Sporting Club Programme Hut located outside the Barclay stand at Carrow Road and which still proclaims our name to the uncomprehending masses.

Andy Ramsay   Took 3 for 53 for us before a record-breaking transfer to cricket rivals Feilden + Mawson. His other notable achievements include fathering Adrian, the local Green politician, who will surely campaign for more cricket pitches throughout the land, and managing ‘Ramsay’s Raiders’ to 2^nd place in the Eastern Daily Press Fantasy Football League in 1995. 

Andrew Ramsbottom     Son of Chris and a fine young cricketer for us. Despite illness he was still able to be twelfth man and a substitute fielder for us in the Shield Final at Pinebanks. He died, aged 17, at home on 11 September 2000. He was always tolerant of us older but less able players. His positive attitude to his challenges and opportunities set an example to us all, both then and now.

Andy Shingles.   The brother of Derek. He represented us in various races, particularly in our victory in the race preceding the Lord Mayor’s Procession in 1980.

Andy Someone     A cricketer, albeit briefly. His file appears to have been mislaid.

Angela Low     Was at Enterprise House for a few months in 1974. 

Ann Wood (once Colchin)    Ann handled Peter Miller from 17 November 1969 to 7 September 1973. She now lives at Carleton Forehoe. Her husband is the Godfather – to Erica Barr’s daughter. 

Anne Veg     A librarian recruited by Gill Saunders, another librarian, to our quiz team in 2004. (After deliberation we suspect ‘Veg’ was her food order and not her surname). 

Aneesh     Arrived with us from Norwich Union (as we still know them) for badders in January 2017. 

Arthur     We have no idea really. Might have been the old boy at the other end of a bar. An intricately folded piece of cardboard, painted bright yellow, later took the name and served both as a mascot and receptacle for conducting draws and raffles for many years. (See also Amy Williams). 

Ash     A polite young lady who nevertheless seemed to find us compatible for badders in January 2017.

Ashley Spooner    Stalwart cricketer for many-a-year; and a formidable ten-pin bowler. Became absent without permission for a few years. Moved to Trimingham to be near the sea; is aware that the sea shows signs of wanting to be near to him.

Aylene Robinson     Was with us for a few days until 22 September 1980 but thought better of it. 

Aubrey & Marlene Hudson     Our hosts at The Coach and Horses, Bethel Street in the 1970’s. 

Barry Andrews   Escaped most of our attention whilst with us. Did nothing sporting. Went away after just a few weeks amidst us on 30 September 1983.

Betty Betts (later Lain)    Betty came to us on 29 March 1982 when architect Malcolm Rose went to sail round the world.  Was nice but wandered away on 22 July 1983 to be nice somewhere else. Was obviously successful as she then became Mrs Lain – the wife of Graham Lain the artist. 

Bill Cooke      Arrived at 64 Bethel Street on 22 January 1968 to wait for us. He formed part of the Arthur Enterprises financial administration team until he retired on 31 August 1976. Bill died, aged 80, in November 1987.

William Hayward Tritton     RIBA, FSIAD, FRSA    Bill was the London-based third of the triumvirate that formed the link between the Purcell and Johnson Sports and Social Club and our later incarnations. He served in the army from 1950 to 1952; being commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1951 and rising to the rank of captain in 1952. He was an assistant to Farmer, Dark, & D.Adshead Grant from 1952 to 1956, and then with Peter Miller as Miller and Tritton. He died, aged 56, on 13 March 1984. 

Brian Daniels     A badders bod for a couple of years.

Brian Gray     One of the legendary Gray brothers and Commander of Our Fleet. Sometimes remembers to come to badminton. Holds the Club record for growing and removing his beard. Club Catering Officer (Rolos). His wife is not the Linda Gray who played Sue Ellen in Dallas. 

Brian Sewell     Drifted in from the squash courts to flirt with badders for a while. Achieved the most generous badminton handicap since pre-history.

Bryan Youngs    Carpenter, joiner, hang-glider, and original badders bod (though one with a tendency to snap his Achilles tendons rather too often). Moved to the house next to Norman and Chris Hart in 2010 to reduce the burden of our administrative and organisational procedures. (Relocation of other members may be required if this experiment proves workable). 

Bob Busby-Bibby     A friend of Norman (he of the Historic Frame) Hart and a participant in our onslaught on the Evening News Ten Pin Bowling Tournament. Like Carl Calvarini his name could possibly have strayed into erroneous territory as James’ need to register comprehensive details of our six players for the event was left somewhat deficient by Norman’s submission of only their forenames. He is more often known as Bob Lemon. 

Bob Davison    An artist. He assisted us often in the Hyde Park run (and in our search for Youngs pubs as we wound down from the event). 

Bob Mackrill     Recruited into the Arthur Enterprises empire on 2 August 1976. He departed from Enterprise House, probably for the last time, at 3.03 p.m. on 20 May 1977, leaving behind his mock-up of an opticians’ desk which served to store club sporting equipment for many years. He seems to have married the lovely Bev in 1979. Hurrah. 

Carl Calvarini     (see Bob Busby-Bibby). Probably not actually Italian either as his secret identity is Carl Green.

Carl Harris     Badders bod able to propel the shuttle with alarming velocity. Wandered off somewhere.

Carol O’Connell     Carol, formerly Rollins and before that Riches, played badders with us for many years, alternating this with her other enthusiasms which included walking with the Wayfarers and dancing with Fiddlesticks Ladies Morris Side. A quite well-behaved group of Club members attended her wedding to Terry in December 2008, only to find ourselves attending her funeral at Sprowston less than four months later after the huge shock of her sudden death on 17 March 2009 at the age of 64. 

Carolyn     Was engaged in worthwhile pursuits (such as trying to get a church roof re-thatched) when Janet Hill drew her into the den of iniquity in which badders is conducted in November 2018.

Charles and Rose Waller     Philip’s parents did much to shape our Club in its early years, due mainly to running the Coach and Horses in Union Street. (Charlie’s parents, Robert & Agnes, had run the Black Eagle in Rupert Street until it was knocked over in the blitz, then ran The Champion on Chapel Field Road). Many meetings of our steering committee were held at the Coach and Horses, as were numerous engagements with the demands of the Darts League fixture list. Charlie & Rose were Eaton Residents’ Association Gardeners of the Year in 1998. Charlie, a Carrow Road regular, was an early member (and sometimes opponent) of our cricket team. Rose died on 28 January 2018; Charlie on 9 November 2020. (The pint glasses we borrowed from the Coach and Horses to avail ourselves of a cask of Old at the 1974 Christmas lunch have been giving reliable service at Castle Arthur for many years. A redistribution to veterans was conducted to enable ongoing toasting of a couple who shared some of our best times.)

Cheryl    Badminton player, otherwise Lady of Mystery. (Not to be confused with Cheryl, personal assistant to Colin who sent us some lovely toffee in 1977). 

Chris Davis     Joined us in 2002. Doughty cricketer and able to wield a snooker stick impressively. Brother of Steve.

Chris Hale     Cricketer. After leaving Norwich he worked for award winning architectural practice Berman Guedes Stretton for 15 years, and then established Penwarden Hale Architects in Oxford in 2015 where he is a director. 

Chris Hart    Recruited with hubby Norman by Patrick to boost the attendance at badminton decades ago. Founding member of The Arthur Mnemotechnical Institute quiz team and a participant in most of our adventures. Unfortunately Arthur-itis now hampers her. (Hampers are usually insufficient to hamper Norman). 

Christopher Ninham     Son of Julian. He played cricket for us when young before progressing to a higher level. (There are higher levels).

Chris Pardoe    He played cricket for us in 1997 but was released as we already had a Chris.

Chris Ramsbottom     An early regular in our cricket team. His sons Adam and Andrew also played enthusiastically and most capably for us.

Clare (Minor) Hanlon.   Recruited by James on 23 June 1980 to assist at the Purr, Smiler, and Titter Sports & Social Club. Later Mrs Gurney-Read; later not. Gained three victories in the early years of the Blythe Bowl. Wandered away from Bethel Street in 1985. Her best friend knew David Bowie’s drummer and lived next door to Dick Joice’s holiday home in Belgium; her aunt was the daughter of former City manager Doug Lochhead and a cousin of Billy Connolly. She has worked as a teaching assistant at a school for little people in Sprowston since 1998ish. Little Clare should not be confused with Big Clare; indeed she should not be confused. 

Clare (Major) Currie.   Architectural bird. Arrived at Enterprise House on 17 November 1980. Not unduly big, but bigger than Little Clare. 

Clare Rushmer.   Clare, once a centre-half for Norman Old Boys playing several times against City’s ‘B’ team, came to us with wife Marlene to play badminton. He died on 26 June 2009. 

Chris Taylor    A cricketer that Sanjay brought with him one evening.

Clive Wigby     Born on 27 April 1934 he spent some of his early life living on a farm. Clive’s family went in separate directions when he was 7 and he went to live with others. He was always a sportsman. On Whit Monday 1944 he took part in the sports day in Diss and finished second in the boys (8-10) 80 yards, won the children’s sack race, and won the all-comers obstacle race. He performed well in sports (and possibly with the rest of his education) at grammar school and in August 1946 the Diss Express noted he was doing exceptionally well in the Thrandeston Youth Club cricket team. In 1951 he finished third in the darts and second in the shooting at the Thrandeston Rectory fete, and by the following year he was playing football for Diss Town Reserves, usually at inside-left or on the left-wing. He also played cricket for the Diss Second XI. His football improved, despite his having suffered pleurisy, to a good standard and he had a trial with a Football League club based in Suffolk. His allegiance however remained with Norwich City and his season ticket allowed him a seat where he could keep an eye on James (and witness the club’s promotion to the Premier League on his 85^th birthday.) He began playing badminton with us in 2001 and was amongst our most regular players until the spring of 2019 when he decided that falling off his roof (don’t begin to wonder) had made further participation too difficult. He died on 13 October 2020 after returning home from hospital following a heart-attack to await an operation at Papworth. His funeral service was conducted at Colney Woods and it was revealed, but without explanation, that 2 days before his death he had been climbing over walls.

Clive had been a national treasure-house of reminiscences, but too many are left untold. Delving into the Diss Express reveals that in 1955 a Mr Wigby was reported as having played accordion for the Diss Women’s Institute Christmas Party. We’d not heard that one, so we cannot confirm that it was Clive. 

Colin Jeffries     Architect; known to perform on a Booth Matchless. After arriving on 25 March 1974 to spend his formative years at Perspire, Mildew, & Trickle he left on 3 February 1978 to enter into semi-retirement at County Hall, then hid away with John Sennitt at Coltishall, became Senior Conservation Architect for South Norfolk Council before concentrating fully on his position as Honorary Secretary of the Purcell & Johnson Sports and Social Club Old Boys Welfare Section from his home at Topcroft Towers. 

Colin Hanfrey     A badders bod who joined us from the Bluelights in 2011. The Club’s Sports Science Officer – buy him a beer and he can be persuaded to mutter on about adenosine triphosphate and fast-twitch muscle fibre. 

Colleen & Mick Waterhouse   Original badders bods and participants in many enterprises. Colleen is lovely; Mick is indescribable. Proprietors of Norwich Gas Heating Services, a good reliable company but it does involve Mick. 

Corinne Bennett (formerly Wilson) M.B.E.    Joined architects Parallel Motion & T-square in 1968 and soon learned from Donovan Purcell how to be nice to cathedrals. In 1974 she was appointed as architect for Winchester Cathedral (made famous, as older bods will recall, by the New Vaudeville Band). “She was always at home in a quarry” – the Guardian. She became a Dame Commander of the Equestrian order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. There is much more to be learned about her on the interthing. Corrine died, aged 75, on 10 July 2010.

Cyril Tomkins     An extra lurking in the background. He became an Associate of Donovan Purcell after the death of Fred Johnson. He retired from Pry, Meddler, & Tinker on 24 September 1971.

Daffodil     A Club dog (sadly no more) who was responsible for introducing us to Erica Barr. 

Dan Hall.   In his secret (well obviously rather less secret now) identity as Wonder Dan he can project badminton shuttles faster than mere mortals. Sometimes they go in the right direction. He has been a cricketer too.

Daniel Hayes     A friend of Robert Tenner’s who ran very well for us in the Sunday Times National Fun Run a long time ago.

Daron Cox    Cricketer and man of mystery. He was recruited when we were In Need for a match in 2004, then went away again.

Darren Cook     Someone Sanjay found to play cricket for us when we were needy in 2004. South African. Father to Tyron. Provides sound financial advice on the television. 

Dave Webb    No, not the Chelsea defender of the 1970’s but a tennis player James met at Lesley Oldfield’s party and talked into playing cricket for us the next day. Tall.

David Aldridge     Sportsman, harmonica player, and Architect in between. Played cricket for Norfolk Young Amateurs against Derbyshire Juniors in the Hilda Overy Trophy in 1969, scoring 21 after opening the batting. Recruited from Lambretta, Scooter, and Image on 11 July 1983. Once a hockey international. Temporarily absent from our cricket team for over three decades. 

David Bissonnet     Arrived at Bicycle, Millwork, and Thinnest as a Style Consultant on 13 March 1978. He retired in 2013 but continued to be a full-time absentee from our sporting endeavours (and also Chairbod of the Dragon Hall Trustees). He then returned to Purcell. 

David Clarke     Played cricket (often in luminous green shorts) and football for us, partly on a loan-basis from Feilden + Mawson, a long time ago. (He also worked in our Colchester outpost in 1976). He later helped form the Ten to Eleven Cricket Club.

David Constable     Badders bod who arrived in 2003.

David Daniels     Recruited to our cricket team by Norman Hart.

The late David Dukes     (Late, in the sense that he usually is, and not in the sense that he is no longer available for selection). Borrowed from South Norfolk Council to play cricket for us on a few occasions. Wields a guitar with enthusiasm. 

David & Christine (“the log lady”) Gray.     For many years Christine provided the oozy, boozy, creamy, biscuity log-thing for our annual badminton jolly by way of thanks for our taking David out of the house. David, Club Engraver and the other one of the near-legendary Gray brothers, was an early stalwart of our badminton section and a supporter of Jurnet’s Bar for even longer. He hurls his darts in the right direction, understands things like the ‘side’ of a cue ball, and has been known to abuse referees. One of our few Members who hasn’t lost his Club Tie. 

Dr David Jobanputra   A spectator for our cricket match in May 2023 (as he lived adjacent to Britannia Barracks) who assisted our opponents’ fielding and was immediately recruited by us and proved most capable. Ecologist and Film maker. Bowls quickly.

David Johns     An architectural bod (from 18 August 1969) and early member of our football team. Legend has it that he once spent the entire afternoon hiding in a tiny cupboard in the attic at Enterprise House during a heatwave in the belief that our game of hide-and-seek in the rambling Georgian building was continuing beyond the lunch hour. Other noteworthy exploits include an evening at the Jolly Butchers with John and Sally Burton which is probably best not recounted in full, and driving Andrew Armes car into an Austin A35. David snuck away on 25 May 1973 and worked with Richard Pike. He was unable to attend our Mayday event in 2015 due to the need to see a Frenchman about a septic tank. 

David Metcalf    A Man of Borsetshire who assisted our cricket team when we were needy. Once, when playing football for Lowestoft Town, he clattered David Johnson (England, Liverpool, Everton, and at that time some team in Suffolk).

David Scales     Recruited from Norfolk County Council bowls club in 2009.

Denis Tuttle     Doughty Denis, an architect, arrived at Enterprise House on 28 September 1981 and left on 31 October 1986, having performed most ably in our football and cricket teams. He took to running.

Derek Shingles     A Pastonian. Played for us, or at least watched the first half of our innings, in a cricket match abandoned in the rain. Appeared in our footy team and has been known to run for us. 

Des Sadler     A Pastonian of similar vintage to James. Recruited to our 5-a-side football team for some matches at North Walsham. Played cricket for Bradfield for many years.

Dharan Shetty Arrived from the real world to join us for badders on 9 October 2024 and, surprisingly, showed signs of being comfortable among us.

Dianne Critten   One of our original badminton players (while Miss Burgess). Remarkably good with a ten-pin ball. 

Dick Parker    A cricketer. We think we found him in Philip’s dad’s pub. 

Dino    Arrived with his friend Pete in late 2016 to make badders an alternative to their usual squash. 

Dominic Beaugeard     Secretary of our Malaysian branch. Once a member (known as ‘Nigs’) of the band Obsession which came into being in 1983 and went on to play such renowned venues as Blofield Globe, the Theatre Royal Studio Club, and the Louis Marchesi. Thus Dominic had already achieved stardom when he joined us on 13 September 1983. He set our Club 200 metre record (26.4 seconds) in 1993. He departed from our Bethel Street Convalescence Home on 24 May 1985 for an indefinite jaunt across France. He then settled in Malaysia, becoming managing director of EDGE Consulting Engineers (civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, anything really). 

Dominic Olley     Appeared in our cricket pairs competition in 1989, failed to find Eaton Park for the golf, then disappeared completely. 

Donovan Purcell    TD, MA, FRIBA     Born in Norwich, educated at King Edward VI School, articled to Buckingham and Berry, worked in Norwich and London. A national authority on stonework and brick – it is said, though occasions for introducing the fact into conversation are limited, that he could date a mediaeval brick to within ten years. He was appointed as Surveyor to the Fabric of Ely Cathedral in 1960. Created Purcell, Miller, and Tritton at 64 Bethel Street, Norwich from the remnants of Purcell & Johnson with the unstated intention of allowing the Arthur Enterprises empire to generate itself. He died, aged 60, at his home at 15, The Crescent, Norwich on 19 December 1973. 

Dora Joyce     Arrived with her husband John for ten pin bowling in 2015.

Eddy Belcourt   Probably a mistake. A Football Hooligan following Fulham, he snuck into Enterprises House on 6 March 1978 when we were otherwise engaged. He went away on 24 May 1978. He may have joined the Army. 

Emily Scales     Daughter to Karen Aberdeen (see below). Probably the only club member able to perform a triple salchow followed by double toe-loop without recourse to several large brandies.

Eric Neale   Not really a cricketer. More of an architectural bod really, but he tried. He came to Enterprise House from Malcolm Rose (who had decided to sail around the world) on 29 March 1982 and left on 28 February 1986. 

Erica Auger     Daughter of Jackie and Ian Howe, mother of Seth and Robyn Jacqueline, and too briefly a badders bod. She works for the Royal Society for the Preservation of Birds and articles by her often appear in the Eastern Daily Press in which she extols the wonders of the natural world. She sometimes pops onto the local news too, although has yet to do so wearing the required Club sweatshirt. 

Erica Barr     An administrator at Enterprise House from 11 August 1975 until she went home on 27 May 1977 to prepare for the arrival of Thomas. Husband Bill wrote a good footy book and won (with someone else, obviously) the coxless pairs title at the Boston marathon, covering the 31 miles from Lincoln to Boston in 4 hours 30 minutes. He also once won a race out-running a Horse over about 10 miles by 22 seconds.

Esther & Paul Fleming    Arrived as badminton bods in 2008. (Fleming’s Left-hand Rule is explained elsewhere). Esther was President of the Chartered Certified Accountants Norwich Members’ Network in 2008/9 but is perhaps better known for dressing as the Pink Panther. Daughter Eleanor arrived in September 2011 and was immediately reprimanded for contravening Robing Regulations by appearing in early photographs in headgear fashioned without regard for club colours. 

E.Titmarsh     The first winner in 1949 of what is now our Gentleman’s Trophy. Fred Marshall, who knew almost as many people as Paul Edwards, once advised us that “I knew a man called Titmarsh who used to repair lawnmowers”. 

Dr. Eustace Firth     In the 1881 census he was shown as occupying 64 Bethel Street, Norwich. His wife Ellen died when still young and then, on 6 November 1887 when he was aged 31, he died from an overdose of morphine. He was in the habit of taking narcotics to encourage sleep and on the previous night he got up, went to his consulting room, and injected 12 drops of morphine. He was found dead by his sister at 9.30 the next morning. 

Commander R.C.Foster, Royal Navy Surgeon Commander (retired).     A walk-on part. His daily dancing antics outside Enterprise House intrigued us and The Arthur Sleuthing Agency swung efficiently into action one day in 1977. Our agents followed him. After a half of Truman’s and a few goes on the fruit machine in the Coach & Horses, Bethel Street he proceeded, after a visit to the library, to engage in similar activity at the King’s Head (later the Body Shop) on Castle Street. Next came a visit to The Raven on St Giles for a half of Truman’s and…  We discontinued our pursuit. 

Frances Bradshaw     Fran came to Enterprise House for a few weeks in the summer of 1974 in the midst of studying for an architectural degree. She learned how to sharpen a 2B pencil, gained some understanding of 400-year-old timber joints, and then went away. By 2015 she had become a partner at Anne Thorne Architects. 

Francis Birch     He did things with us for a couple of years from the middle of 1974, though somewhat absent-mindedly as his uncle was Dennis Hills, a travel writer held captive in Uganda by Idi Amin and who avoided being shot by a firing squad only after the intervention of Harold Wilson and Her Majesty The Queen. 

Frank Sabberton     A stalwart of the badminton section for many years before various operations finally stopped him from playing in 1999. He had by then played in almost a quarter of our 13,700 games. He was often one of the first on court and, despite years of David’s jokes, seldom left until after our end-of-evening trip to Jurnet’s Bar. Frank died in January 2000. (He once apologised for only being able to play four games as he’d undergone a major operation five days earlier)! In our financially fraught early days Frank would take home the battered shuttles and construct several replacements. He was also the only known person able to repair (a skill he somehow developed whilst serving in a submarine) the early 1950’s Marconi wireless at Castle Arthur. It now sits forlornly silent. The Frank Sabberton Memorial Trophy is awarded to the person with attendance comprising the most consecutive weeks at badders. Rounds are sometimes bought in his memory in Jurnet’s Bar at Wensum Lodge. A good ‘un.

Fred-the-Cleaner  (Fred Marshall).    Fred’s title was earned by reason of his employment, rather than to distinguish him from some disreputable character called Fred-the-Filthy. He joined us after careers in the army, as park keeper in Chapel Field Gardens, running a bread delivery round, and as a milkman. He was an enthusiastic participant in most of our sporting endeavours in the days of our Bethel Street Recreation Centre (from 28 September 1973). A very good table tennis player, good footballer, and able to throw darts well (though sometimes hampered by his insistence that “I’ve got to get on with my cleaning, you boys!”). Fred died, aged 82, on 28 October 2017. 

Frederick Johnson    MA, FRIBA     An architect. Articled pupil to Naish & Mitchell in Bury St Edmunds. Early work included Public Houses for Greene King. Went to Clacton, escaped back to Bury. Responsible for Public Shelters and Warden’s Posts in Suffolk during the war. Later became war damage assessor. He was in partnership as ‘Scott and Johnson’ until 1945 and prepared a scheme for 84 aluminium buildings in 1949. Entered into Partnership with Donovan Purcell in the early 1950’s. They had offices at 64, Bethel Street, Norwich, in Cambridge, and in Bury St Edmunds. Fred died in October 1960, aged 51. 

Gail (‘Gladys’) Evans. (Miss Stock during our early encounters; then Mrs Whitbourn).   Recruited by James to sharpen his pencils, Gail joined us on 14 August 1978 and progressed. By 15 August she had been renamed Gladys as it seemed a better name to bellow when coffee was required. Stands half an inch shorter than Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother used to stand. Became, briefly, a local celebrity for nurturing Hartley the leveret. Her daughter became sufficiently elevated (and taller than the Queen Mother) in the ranks at Purcell to be able to make coffee for James when he arrived at their sumptuous offices to arrange the 2015 Mayday Reunion. Gail retired from her position as Senior Architectural Technician with Purcell.

Gary Knell     A good goalkeeper and cricketer; and Cadet Officer of 222 (Broadlands) Squadron, Air Training Corps. Came to us from Salhouse, though no-one can remember how. His sister has now been identified as someone we often see at beer festivals which might have something to do with his recruitment.

Gary-the-Sandcastler     A friend of Graham’s Warr who came on a Summer Outing with a shovel and embarked enthusiastically on a huge sandcastle (or possibly a burial mound). He was recruited into out footy team. 

Gavin Williams    One of very many people that Paul knows. A good cricketer. 

Geoff    A former triallist with some professional club from Suffolk and probably Geoff Freston, the lead singer with Obsession. In 1985 he played for us in our first 11-a-side football match.

Geoffrey Weaver     A fine cricketer for us for several seasons, despite our matches clashing with ‘About Anglia’ which, concurrently, he was supposed to be producing. Sons Tom and Matthew also played most capably for us until vanishing to university. Winner of the Golden Ear at the Berlin Agricultural Film and Television Festival. Though some describe Geoffrey’s finest achievement as directing ‘Bygones’ with Dick Joice [see Clare Hanlon], we prefer to remember him as our first player to hit a six into the prison. In 1998 he climbed a tree near his home on Newmarket Road to save it from being felled. 

Gill Saunders     Club librarian, lapsed badders bod, erstwhile athlete, and quiz team member. 

Grace Wolfensohn     Came to the Bethel Street Care Centre on 17 November 1969 and left on 26 February 1971. We know nothing else about her, but she was granted Associate Membership as she sounds as if she was glamorous Swedish film star in a former life. 

Graham & Tracy Alger     Both badders bods; Graham has  also ben a stalwart of our  cricket team. They cope well with living dangerously close to Suffolk.

Graham Bunn    A very capable cricketer with Buxton who the Wombles loaned to us when we were needy in a match in 2011.

Graham Penn      A policeman and cricketer. He once ran 50 miles along the South Downs Way. 

Graham Warr     Warrant Officer of 222 (Broadlands) Squadron, Air Training Corps, a stalwart of our early badminton days, and an accomplished bugler. Performed heroically in our athletics and football teams. Sometimes marched in uniform towards Nijmegen, near the Dutch border with Germany. We discovered that he was married in August 1999 and was living in Pulham Market. 

Harriett Gray     Offspring of Brian; a good badminton player.

Haz-el Canfor     Haz-el escaped from the planet Krypton with her cousin Kal-el. They discovered that here on Earth they possess super powers. Kal-el became Superman, Man of Steel, and went into films. Haz-el became Loud Lady and used her power of supersonic shrieking to render badminton players helpless. (In September 2010 she remarked that “those people on the end court are very noisy!” This rendered the rest of us instantly helpless). She is fond of sausages and in her quieter moments is Club Physiotherapist. 

Helder de Sousa     Recruited by Fred-the-Cleaner to meet a deficiency in our 5-a-side team. He married Lynda Falgate of Wilberforce Road at St John’s Cathedral in 1982. (We are unsure whether he is the chap of the same name who failed to qualify in a Lola T292 BMW in the 6-hour Kyalami race, the tenth round of the World Sportscar Championships in November 1974, though Fred did find him working in Kennings Car Hire, so it seems entirely possible). By 2014 he was a sales assistant with Big Yellow storage near the footy club and while there had a relationship with a bee orchid.

Henry Rolph    “Henry’s dad met a man in Vienna, (both were there during the war), the man (name of Erskine) much later, was the founder of Securicor”. Henry was our first football transfer; a former opponent who we signed from County Hall on 1 November 1979. An architect, he is temporarily absent from our cricket team. When Henry’s wife Sheena was awaiting the arrival of their first child the girl in the next bed had a friend who knew Gary Glitter. (More complex social networking frameworks had still to evolve).  Henry used to have a cat called Yvonne and does conjuring tricks.

Henry Kelf , Architect.    Chairman of our Far East branch (based in Gorleston). He married lovely ballerina bride Karen in 1988. “She was absolutely thrilled”, said her mum. Henry is sometimes rested from our cricket team whilst he launders his Domestos-blue cricket kit, which had tended to encourage a degree of banter, and re-tinted his hair (‘Blaenau Mist’ by Clairol). Daughter Cecily will dance for you if you’re lucky. Other daughter Louisa could teach you things. She married in 2021 – didn’t you receive a piece of wedding cake?

Ian Balls     A badders bod for about a year.

Ian Hydes     Ian is a wholehearted sportsman. Though on occasions almost as loud as Haz-el he is so in a more purposeful way and manages to stimulate other cricketers into occasional bursts of activity. He used to be a linesman but recovered. Our Ladies Youth Section continued to grow apace when at 2.07 a.m. on 9 August 2007 a daughter to Ian & Cath, Miss Jessica Eve Hydes, arrived (6lbs 13ozs).

Ian Walker     Formerly a badders bod with the Bluelights, who came to us in January 2011. Uncorroborated sightings suggest he may loiter on the streets with his instrument. (He busks). 

Jackie Howe, hubby Ian, and offspring Erica and Paul. All have performed valiantly for us. Jackie was a badders bod for several years before taking up reluctance; Ian will teach you to drive; Erica has her own entry in this list by virtue of being a Media Personality; Paul weighed 9lbs 4ozs when born and has his own entry for being a cricketer. 

Jackie Sowersby    Early badders bod. Later lapsed into tap (not lap) dancing (despite her arthritic knee). 

James     Responsible for casting and direction. Appears in some scenes. Once brushed forearms with the blonde one out of Abba in a Stockholm bar; she’s probably mentioned it in several interviews.

James Allen   Son of Peter Allen. Went to Hull to do things with fish and become a father. (See the notes on his father for more vague detail). 

James Durrant   Recruited by Martin Lake to our cricket team. He will be pleased to sell you a nice carpet. 

James P.     Partner to Harriet Gray and a badders bod.

Jamie Burke    Recruited to our cricket team in 2021.

Jasmine Smith     Invaluable constituent. (Could sometimes do better at Ten Pin Bowling). 

Janet Bee      (Known as Janet Butterfield in the Outside World). A good badminton player who was one of few ladies able to cope with partnering James in matches, playing simply but effectively, and displaying her remarkable spirit. She would smile, embarrassed, when her competitiveness was showing. It often did. A golfer, she was once Ladies Captain at Sprowston. Much admired by Those Who Understand for submitting pithily passionate letters in support of Norwich City to the local press. Sadly Janet died, aged 52, at the Priscilla Bacon Lodge on 9 February 1997.

Janet Hill     A regular badders bod until her attendance was hampered by living in London (“…tube stations, …very comfortable, ….fell in the fish pond, ….life isn’t dull – next week I’m off to Crawley”). She returned to Brundall in the summer of 2014 after a long jaunt in Australia. Often seen standing outside Lords or Trent Bridge muttering “buy or sell any tickets” and looking hopeful. Son Simon may play cricket or badminton for us again eventually. Daisy has already joined us.

Jason Ball     He was recruited to our cricket team by Martin Lake in 2018. He can do you a nice suit if you want to look smart for the Annual Dinner…

Jason Brunt     Badders bod. Does something technological that we don’t really understand in the Real World. A runner.

Jason Lambert     The son of someone Paul knows. An excellent addition to our cricket team in 2009. Responsible for hitting the biggest six ever – clearing Britannia Road. Could do a job for us in central defence or midfield if we still had a football team. Temporarily resting from sporting activity while busy washing-up and the like.

Jeanette Sadd (once Willimott)    Occasional badders bod. 

Jen Hart     Offspring to Chris and Norm. Achieved early stardom by appearing as ‘a snowflake’ and then as ‘a tree’ in school productions. Performs with Jeremy Codhand and has achieved national representative honours in the Great Britain Ultimate Frisbee women’s team and participated in the World Club Championships. Jen established an Arthur Sporting Club Centre of Excellence in Exeter whilst at college there. Married Iain and they had a son Finlay Arthur Murphy in 2021.

Jenny (‘Glasses’) Smith    Early badminton bod. (Her title relates to her being visually challenged rather than an ability to play a passable game of badders after six glasses of Chablis). 

Jenny (‘Without’) Sandell     Another early badminton bod, easily distinguishable from Jenny ‘Glasses’. Still seen to be keeping fit at a local gymnasium. Still without. 

The Legendary Jeremy     Farming husband of Susan Alexander; unfortunately only able to play cricket for us once (as arable farmers tend to be busy in the summer, what with the need for all that moaning about the weather and stuff) when almost single-handedly he won our first match for us.

Jill Cann   Came to us as Jill Perry on 16 July 1973 and enabled us to conduct early experiments in Networking – she was the babysitter for Norwich City’s manager Ron Saunders. She left Enterprise House on 10 May 1974 and reappeared at our Sheringham Treasure Hunt in August 2008. Jill works as a teaching assistant. 

Jim West     We somehow recruited him from somewhere in the United States of America to be one of four in our relay team that won the race preceding the Lord Mayor’s Procession in 1980. The rest of his file is empty. 

Jo     A very good badders bod (of the female persuasion) who performed with us in 1995. Not to be confused with Joe. Or Joanna. Or the Other Joe. Or Jo Mullineaux. Or Andrew’s Jo. 

Jo Mullineaux   Formerly a badders bod with the Bluelights, who came to us in January 2011. 

Joe     Not to be confused with Jo. Or with Joanna. Or Joe, This would probably be Joe Coleman, the son of Stephen. But it might be Joe whose second name we don’t know. Both of them were badminton players.

Joe     Not to be confused with Jo. Or with Joanna. Or Joe, This would probably be Joe Coleman, the son of Stephen. But it might be Joe whose second name we don’t know. Both of them were badminton players.

John Burton M.B.E.     John talked his way into our midst in 1971 and began assimilating equal quantities of architectural knowledge and scurrilous tales at our Bethel Street day centre. Hasn’t yet become a participating member of our sporting activities but was granted honorary membership for buying the first round at the Bull and Bush on Exchange Street when we cancelled our Christmas lunch because of Donovan’s death. Moved to Colchester. Became Surveyor Emeritus of Canterbury Cathedral and Surveyor Emeritus of Westminster Abbey. 

John Coach-and-Horses     It’s fairly obvious where we found him when looking for a cricketer.

John & Gill Doy.     John was recruited after having crossed squash rackets with James and became a reliable participant in most of our endeavours. John & Gill became grandparents with the arrival of Benjamin Albert Rollinson (7lbs 13ozs) on 22 January 2009. The portrait of Benjamin Nuthall, which stands adjacent to the official Club Muster Point at the Beer Festival, probably influenced Melissa and Pete’s choice of name. (Handy measures: 1 wineglassful = 1 gill. So does 1 small teacupful). John may well do things to your compooter if you feed him biscuits. 

(Big) John Ellis     Architectural technician with Pumpkin, Marrow & Turnip from 5 July 1971 before setting up John Ellis Architectural Design at Acle. Club member specialising in high-level badminton shuttle retrieval. He once agreed to go in goal in our 5-a-side team providing he could wear what on anyone else would have been a full-length mackintosh. John’s wife Anne had a Pizza Dinner named after her to commemorate the time he took her out. In 1984 John alerted Mr Peter Pratt, also of the delightful village of Repps-with-Bastwick, that Mr Pratt’s parents’ home was on fire. He was thanked, though not until six fire engines had arrived. Sadly Anne died in March 2018 after many years with Parkinson’s disease.

John Gillingwater     Once a badders bod, once in banking, lived at Hoveton, wandered away from us in 1999. John died, aged 78, on Christmas Eve 2021 at the Priscilla Bacon Lodge. 

John Godfrey    John, who had served with Matt Busby during the war, taught many of us to play badminton in a Friday evening class at Thorpe St Andrew. At the end of 1985 The Arthur Sporting Club kidnapped almost all of the class, moved to Wensum Lodge, and set up our Badminton Bit. John died in September 2005.

John Kocagoz     Came to us from Turkey, played badders, went back to Turkey.

John Joyce     Arrived with his wife Dora for ten pin bowling in 2015.

John Mitchell    Once a badders bod. Sometimes confused with John Ross who arrived at the same time. Last seen standing optimistically outside a football ground.

(Little) John Nuthall-There     Claims to be 5’ 4”. A small but significant part of the Purcell & Johnson Sports and Social Club administrative team from 2 February 1976. In 1977 he brought about one of our financial crises when, with first class postage stamps priced at 9 pence he bought one hundred 9½ pence stamps. It was around the time he discovered Cointreau. He set off into the outside world on 9 June 1978. He once tried to account for Ayton Asphalt but is a much nicer chap than that suggests. Known to have Good Ideas after a couple of Drambuies. If he were slimmer, he once told us, he’d be Italian. He’s now a grandfather;  George arriving in 2013. 

John Ross   A badders bod. Did remarkably responsible things with aeroplanes at R.A.F Coltishall, including, we think, being a navigator in a Harrier jet. (A Bader’s Bod, perhaps?). Went missing, but not in the Glen Miller sense, whilst travelling the world, then returned to Brundall (and us) in retirement. 

John Rounce     Once a Wensum Lodge squashbod, he was persuaded, during an unguarded moment at the Beer Festival, to join us for badders. Noted for utilising the entire colour spectrum when selecting his sportswear. 

John Royal     John was architectural at Bethel Street from 1965 to 1969. He went away but returned for our Mayday reunion in 2015. 

John Someone     A cricketer, albeit briefly. His file appears to have been mislaid.

John Waddington     Came to our Bethel Street Day Care Centre for two weeks experience in 1984. He volunteered to play for us in a badminton match and we agreed because his father was a tax inspector. 

John Ward     He arrived in our midst early in 1974, begged to differ, and went away on 12 July 1974.

Jonathan Ninham     A cricketer with us for many a year, catering consultant, and enlivening contributor to the life of the club. Sometimes absent due to the needs of his employers in the Outside World. Meant to set up this website but was prevented from doing so by Everything. 

Jordan Alger    Son to Graham and Tracy; cricketer and badders bod. Also an accomplished Archer; dum-de-dum-de-dum-dumty-dum…

Joy Edwards.    Arrived at Enterprise House on 31 May 1983 as Miss Myhill. Became a wife to Paul but seems surprisingly at ease with the experience. Dinner Lady and stalwart supporter of our cricket team. Rather erratic in her appearances at badders. A considerable help to the Club’s team of administrators. Has had more hairstyles than all the models ever seen on the cover of Vogue.

Juanita Purcell    Nita married Donovan Purcell in 1940. Many years later she was briefly a secretary but wisely left before the Arthur Enterprises takeover and introduction of beer drinking to the list of work in progress. Nita donated the original Club spider plant to us, the offspring of which became an important source of income when club funds were somewhat insufficient for our purposes. It still thrives at Castle Arthur. Aged 95, Nita envisaged having other engagements and thus she declined our invitation to our Mayday celebration in 2015. She was, however, delighted by the reasons for our having it. Nita died in her 100^th year at Corton House, Norwich on 19 March 2022.

Jude Needham     Was encouraged to come to us for badders in July 2015 after playing with Norman Ball at Hoveton.

Julian Ninham     Brother to John. A fine cricketer for us. 

Justin    The 9-year-old son of someone at Chaplin and Farrant who we bullied into playing cricket for us.

Karen Aberdeen.     A badders bod in her days in the Norwich tax office. Draped herself about tastefully in the December 2008 edition of ‘Ideal Home’ magazine. Organised, along with G.P. husband John and daughters Olivia and Emily Victoria, the Club’s first Small Olympics in Dunblane, Scotland. Emily (see above) would lead our synchronised skating team if we had one. 

Kate Proudman.   Kind to cats. Kate came to us on 6 September 1982 and was briefly captain of our rounders team. Set forth from our Bethel Street Centre of Excellence on 29 July 1983 to be kind to cats and arrange rounders matches elsewhere. She settled in London as an architect and artist. ‘Her architectural background influences her artwork, which is a personal response to the built environment and is often site specific. She enjoys the serendipitous element of participatory work’, (and her daughter went to UEA around 2015ish), so she’ll probably be available for a beer now and then. 

Kathyryn.   Arrived with Kevin Hobbs for badders in 1990. Kevin went to Cornwall; we’re not sure where Kathryn went – which is a shame.

Katie West    Snooker tournament organiser supreme. Also as good as could be possible at organising Paul Edwards.

Kathy & Terry Bilham     Founding members of our Athletics Section. Kathy remains a badders bod, though usually performs elsewhere. She quizzes us almost annually. Terry was born, sometimes, on the night of the Badminton Jolly. He played for Norwich Post Office in their 3-2 defeat by Norwich City Police in the Norfolk Thursday Cup Final at Carrow Road on May 1967.

Keith Denny    Jolly good badminton player. Repaired the Club guillotine, (used on paper, not necks). Drifted away. 

Keith Greaves   A colleague of Jasmine’s at the Official Receivers who briefly became a cricketer for us when we were needy.

Keith Wills     A badders bod many years ago. Maintained the printing presses at Eastern Counties Newspapers for 26 years.  

Ken    Once a badders bod. He used to do something at Eastern Counties Newspapers. Not the one who was “just good friends” with Barbie. 

Kenny     He joined us for badders in January 2017 having arrived with a racket, a table tennis bat, and a hopeful expression. 

Dr. Ken Farquhar   B Sc (Hons) MSc, QTS, PhD     The perfect person to help make science interesting. Formerly a badders bod with the Bluelights, who came to us in January 2011 and increased our percentage of left-handers. He immediately gave away one of his secret identities by failing to cover his Superman shirt. He appears elsewhere as Dr. Ken where, on behalf of his Inspirational Science Theatre Company, he motivates and provokes enthusiasm amongst large groups of students whilst wearing interesting shirts. (It is possible that ‘Science and Nature’ may compete with ‘Food and Drink’ as our specialist subject in future quizzes). He also runs advanced manipulation skills workshops, though not during badminton evenings. 

Ken Brown    Not the former manager of Norwich City. He played cricket for us.

Kevin Hobbs     A very good badminton player. Set the Club’s Javelin record in 1991 with a throw of 122’ 8½” (37.4 metres). He went to live in Cornwall so attends less regularly.

Khurum     A startlingly good addition to our badminton bods who, unfortunately, went back to In-jah.

Kirstyn Allen   Daughter of Peter Allen. She ran for us in Hyde Park. (See the notes on her father for more vague detail).

Laura Gray   Sporting wench despite the handicap of being married to Phil. Means to come back to badders very soon. 

Lesley ‘Two Titles’ Cooper    Commenced work as a typist (whilst still Lesley Holmes) for Arthur Publications on 15 May 1984. Earned her two titles in the Norwich Senior Parks Tennis Tournament at Eaton Park in 1995. She married Peter in 1985 and left the Perjury, Malfeasance, Treason and Partners day care centre, then returned and remained there for many years. 

Lesley Oldfield     Club blonde. Once lived in the south wing at Castle Arthur but was sent away after playing “Where Do You Go To My Lovely” five times in a row at three in the morning. Fittingly her responsibilities later included dealing with noise complaints made to Norwich City Council. Her sporting achievements include serving at the Beer Festival. The international unit of walking speed ‘the Lesley’ was named after her. (It is a somewhat unreliable measure as it varies according to one’s proximity to a public house). 

Lewis    A lad who played cricket for us. Went on to have his own television series after working with Inspector Morse for many years.

(Little) Linda Holness   Linda was an important & popular member of the Purcell & Johnson Sports & Social Club’s Volleyball Abstinence Group (due mainly to being unable to reach even the bottom of the net) from 15 August 1966 until slipping home on 26 April 1974. Husband Peter will sort your piano out. They are now grandparents as Simon and Emma have twin girls (vintage 2005ish) and a boy (vintage 2008). 

Linda Canham   Came to our day centre in the summer of 1983, did nothing of note, and on 14 October 1983 wandered off into the world beyond.

Lindsey Saunders     An early badders bird credited with the concept of The Christmas Jolly. Continued to take responsibility for helpless creatures by becoming practice manager for a vet.

Lois Wilberforce Howard.   Typing wench at Enterprise House in Bethel Street from 25 August 1973. Left us on Valentine’s Day 1975, (the anguish! the anguish!). Later modelled (and did some promotional stuff) at Eastern Counties Newspapers. Perhaps appropriately her English teacher had once written “Mollie is promising. I see a future for her in magazines”. (Her duties included the weekly ‘Where’s The Ball’ Competition; we wasted hours cutting out the picture from the Eastern Daily Press, covering it with kisses and sending it off to see if we were lucky). Was originally Mollie Willett but didn’t like it; became Lois Willett-Wilberforce and preferred it. Married Alan in 1982 and became Lois Howard. In a former life she was a film-star, not very well known for ‘Through Dante’s Flames’ in which she becomes a cabaret dancer. (An artist has a vision of creating a Madonna but has been unable to find a suitable model. When visiting the cabaret he sees in her the model he seeks. She consents to pose for the painting. As the painting progresses his interest ripens, but this only amuses her. Then, bored by posing, she suddenly goes away. The painting is yet unfinished.) Lois was also not very well known for ‘Thou Shalt Not’, (1914), in which she gets tied up. 

Maggie Hall.     (Not to be confused with Margaret Harker Hall). An excellent badders bod (and runner) for us for many years, though then appeared rather intermittently after moving away with husband Dick, first to Worcester, then Abroad. After settling in the Dordogne for a few years they wandered again, most recently to Italy. They then returned to Norwich, and us, becoming regular badders bods again. Son Dan also became a stalwart; daughter Cathy rather less so, due mainly to being much missed in New Zealand. 

Mal Paveley     Once a goalkeeper for Norfolk. Recruited to our cricket team whilst caught unawares in the Coach and Horses. He died on 24 February 2009, aged 74.

Malcolm Colman     A badders bod from 1986 to 2008, and the donor of the Lily Neate Trophy which we award to whoever plays the most games during a year. He represented us in many races, won the javelin for us in an athletics match, once scored four strikes in succession when ten pin bowling, displayed the necessary sense of humour for participation in our enterprises, and was taller than most of us. In later life he became a taxi driver and in 2013 was president of the City Club, a gentlemen’s club, on Colgate. Malcolm died at home in Sprowston on 5 March 2014, aged 74. 

Mrs Mann     A former associate of Andy Capp who appeared on our horizon early in 1968. She left Enterprise House on 26 June 1973 to concentrate on her attempts to become a bingo millionairess. She was replaced by Fred-the-(considerably)-Cleaner.

Margaret Harker Hall     A venue. 

Maria Buttle     An original badders bod, as was her brother Vernon. They later played for Drayton Badminton Club.

Marie Kuczak.     Made no pretension to be sporty but did type some of the early Arthur Publications after being recruited for that purpose on 3 February 1975. Tiring of that, Marie strode away purposefully (after a Chinese meal in St Benedict’s and after making tea for the last time) on 26 November 1982 before coming to miss us all dreadfully at the Broadland Housing Association. She lived with Ashley in Acle and, aided by a dodgy reference supplied by James, became assistant secretary to the Lord Bishop of Norwich. Her annual visits to Castle Arthur always gained confirmation that yes, the annual Christmas morning run did include an acknowledgement of her late grandmother who had lived at 34 Bishopgate. The visits also did much to keep Marks and Spencer in business. It is very sad to report that Marie died on 25 February 2022 after a few years of illness. She is missed. 

Mark     Nephew of Chris Ramsbottom. He played a couple of cricket matches for us. 

Mark Mickleburgh   A science teacher at Thorpe St Andrew School (the location of a badminton evening class in our formative years) he was able, therefore, to read our notice seeking new players and he joined us in January 2022. Vanished suddenly.

Mark Sheard     After retiring from the Ford Motor Company in Dagenham he came here and began playing cricket for Nelson (who went to James’ school you know, though not at the same time), then began assisting Feilden + Mawson, We signed him, after necessary deliberation, from them in 2015 for an undisclosed fee. 

Mark Brooks     From Wroxham. Played less badminton than he should have.

Mark Wilkinson     Architectural bod who arrived on 10 November 1975. A good tennis player. He was also dragged, somewhat reluctantly, into our 5-a-side football team and spent the first few months of 1977 attempting to climb our table tennis ladder. He wandered away on 1 April 1977 and joined Donald Insall Associates in 1978. He was still with them in 2014 and leading their Cambridge office. 

Marlene Rushmer    A badders bod. 

Martin Ashley     A Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Martin once appeared on ‘That’s Life’ with Esther Rantzen. He also beat Reginald Bosanquet at snooker, and more than once. He arrived at Enterprise House on 18 July 1977. Disappointingly he wandered away from us on 21 June 1982 in the direction of London via Micawber’s Tavern and Colchester. He now runs his own firm of Architects and hangs about with The Royal Household, The Crown Estate, The Royal Parks Agency, and the Church. Surveyor to the Fabric of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and to the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. 

Martin Dunseath     A cricketer who escaped from us to become a partner in the London office of the mighty Purcell empire. “Martin has acquired a wide range of experience in design, drawing, and contract administration for large conservation projects and private residential buildings. He works closely with clients with the aim of exceeding their expectations within the available budget. By questioning each brief in great detail he ensures that their needs are fully understood”. 

Martin Fisk Joined us for badminton in January 2024 despite being busy in both Portsmouth and a remote part of Scotland on activities we should not discuss.

Martin Lake     At one time he was Chairman of the Norwich & District branch of the Federation of Small Businesses, a title which doesn’t quite fit on our cricket scorecards. A good sportsman. Fond of Cringleford. 

Martin Thirkettle    A Pastonian of similar vintage to James. Recruited as our goalkeeper for the Mavis Fisher Cup Final at Carrow Road. 

Matt Bourne     A volunteer administrator (and badminton coach) at the Wensum Sports Centre who has occasionally wielded a badders bat with us. Akin to Jason Bourne but, so far as we are aware, without skills as a covert assassin, without expertise in martial arts or firearms, without multilingual fluency, and without even basic knowledge of C.I.A. protocols and tradecraft. 

Matthew Allen     Son of Peter Allen. Sported for us in his youth. (See the notes on his father for more vague detail). 

Matthew Brandish     Our fourth Matthew. Club Haircutting Officer. Formerly a badders bod with the Bluelights (possibly a hairdressing term, but probably a sponsorship arrangement with the Billy Bluelight Public House), who came to us in January 2011.

Matthew Horton     He and wife Wenda Fabian went to Hexham, which is a shame. In May 2009 he completed a pier to pier race in 67 minutes 31 seconds. Unfortunately we don’t know the distance between the piers so that’s not particularly informative. 

Matthew Poll    Someone who played cricket for us rather well in the hope (unfulfilled) that James would give him a job.

Matthew Thomas     A product of the Peter Codling scouting network. He became a stalwart of The Arthur Thursday Running Club. He failed to report for duty after last being seen on 8 June 2002 on Southwold Pier having just married the lovely Emma. 

Matthew Weaver     Son of Geoffrey, brother of Tom. Played cricket for us most capably before going off to university. 

Matthew Whitworth.   A cricketer for us in 1988.

Maurice Stafford    Someone Paul knows. He played cricket for us on a couple of occasions. He also captained Mattishall in the Norfolk Saturday Junior Cup Final at Carrow Road in April 1991. 

Melanie Radford     A badminton player and a teacher. 

Michael Everitt     A cricketer on loan to us from Feilden + Mawson.

Michael ‘Gordon’ Morrison     The war cry “Do it!” rings out through the still night air. Four swift strokes of a rapier blade carve a rough ‘M’ on a patch of shabby brickwork – the Mark of Morro! The Masked Avenger engaged on an awesome struggle against sloth, indecision, corruption, and loss-making situations. We know a bit about the bod behind the mask: Lived Derbyshire when young; father had architectural practice; to Repton; compromising situation with pretty daughter of village baker; read Architecture at Bristol; meant to become a vet but went awry; married Catherine in 1993; joined Parallel Motion & T-square on 20 August 1973; became Senior Warden of our Care Home. Very reluctant cricketer. Has taken to riding horses. Whistles enthusiastically. Provided considerable assistance with our Mayday Celebration in 2015.

Michael ‘Wingnut’ Wingate     The almost secret identity of Bicycle Repair Man. He came to us on 16 July 1973, left us on 12 July 1974, then came back again on 11 August 1975. A partner-in-crime with Pirate, Mugger, and Thieves until 30 April 1985. Another reluctant cricketer. In the summer of 2011 he found himself in hospital after suffering a heart attack – without realising it! A by-pass operation was carried out, Bicycle Repair Man needing a new inner-tube. 

Mick Waller    A sweet-salesman and badders bod, though not simultaneously.

Mike Allen     He played cricket for us. Twice.

Mike Hand    Another club member recruited when he lived next-door to Castle Arthur. Experienced cricketer (though not yet accepting the description of Old Hand) but limited in his appearances for us as our matches usually clash with his tennis. Married Lesley Penniket at the Royal Geographical Society in 1997. He used to do things at County Hall, but now doesn’t, (apart from sidling into their Beer Festival). Instead the Hand Consultancy handconsultancy@gmail.com now offers, (no, not treatment of cricketing injuries), planning advice & support, grant assistance, economic analysis & strategy development. Lesley hands.on@talktalk.net offers (no, not sports massage) strategic and operational marketing communications for small businesses and organisations. 

Mike Marney     One of our first group of badders bods; probably, at the time, our best. 

Mopsy   The first Club Dog. Was responsible for security arrangements at our Bethel Street Day Centre and for introducing us to Sara Rawlings. Also introduced us to Peter-the-Snake, formerly a draught excluder, with whom she formed a close relationship. Mopsy died in 1984. 

Neil Doncaster   His flirtation with badders was too often interrupted by being Chief Executive of Norwich City F.C. He escaped to Scotland. 

Neil and Tamara Parfitt     Neil is the son of Pam. Good at most sports so needs to be cloned to increase his availability. Tamara is a badders bod and the sensible one of the pair. She also has a remarkable knowledge of the Teletubbies.

Neill Johnstone     Arrived at badders in April 2013. A proof reader – though, of course, there are no inaccuracies to be found here.

Nelson   A cricketer we borrowed from South Norfolk Council to make up our number. Unfortunately not the one who went to James’ school (though not at the same time) and became a national hero and public house.

Nick Ball     The Club’s Egg Procurement Officer. A Badders Bod from the Bluelights who joined us in January 2011. Son of Norman. Husband of Joanna Mullineaux. A sock model. 

Nick Bowen    A cricketer who we borrowed whilst he was still but a lad. He went on to become a regular opponent, playing for South Norfolk Council with his father Geoff.

Nick Searle    A Man of Borsetshire who assisted our cricket team when we were needy.

Nick Stone     A work colleague of Jasmine’s who assisted our cricket team.

Nicola Derbyshire     Joined Peril, Murder & Talon at the start of 1973 but found their doings were not what she had expected. Left to make room for James. If…

Nicola de Quincey    A relative of Peter Miller, no less, who joined us on 15 August 1983. Senior photographer for Arthur Publications at their Bethel Street presses. Sent to India in October 1983 to seek cricketers and badders bods. Returned with neither. She left us on 7 October 1983. She now has her own architectural practice in London and manages to fit in a bit of sailing and stone carving. Most importantly Nicola was once handed the European Cup by Liverpool’s Phil Thompson at a petrol station on the Smithdown Road, Liverpool.

Nigel Mower    A cricketer selected because we’d not had a Nigel play for us before.

Nikki Branford     One of James’ wenches (or Accounts Assistants to give them their official title) excused coffee-making duties for two weeks whilst she demonstrated she was capable of hurling a ten-pin ball effectively and thus joined our team for the Evening News Tournament.

Nobby (‘Andrew’) Futter     A diminutive junior at Enterprise House in Bethel Street from 22 July 1974. He once split a beer glass cleanly in two whilst performing in a darts tournament. Probably fairly good at short tennis but we didn’t indulge him. I think we have finally admitted some remorse at having nailed his shoes to the ceiling. Our sending him to Messrs. Lacey and Lincoln for sky hooks obviously influenced him and he left us in 1975. Nobby had a keen artistic appreciation with an obvious enthusiasm for the work of Les Nabis – (‘the prophets’, not some bloke called Les). After a year at Great Yarmouth College of Art & Design he went to Bristol Polytechnic for a degree course in ceramics, leaving with a BA in 1979. Since 1983 he has worked at Cameron Balloons - the world’s largest manufacturer of hot air balloons. In 1987 he gained his balloon pilot’s licence. He met a pretty young French girl in a field, as one does, and he and Regine married in 1990. They have a son who is studying mechanical design at Plymouth University. Despite all that his major achievement in life remains having made James a splendid elephant mug! 

Norman-a-Guest     Was just that for our cricket team. Obviously not to be mistaken for our Norman. Or our other Norman.

Norman Ball     A Badders Bod from the Bluelights who joined us in January 2011. Father of Nick. An accomplished sailor and brewer. Very good with knots.

Norman Hart     Left-handed. A  badders bod (despite a lapse for a couple of decades). A reliable no. 10 batsman for our  cricket team. His consistent ability to field the ball by nonchalantly pivoting one foot 45 degrees upward on its heel is being considered for inclusion in the M.C.C. Coaching Manual for the Over-Fifties. 

Nuala   She was, and probably still is, Irish. We don’t know because she went away.

Olly Durrant     Recruited with his father for our cricket team by Martin Lake. Was lured away by golf.

Owen Westgate     Once drove into a pig. Came to us from the Purcell and Johnson Sports and Social Club. He retired from Enterprise House on 15 February 1974. Owen died in January 1987, aged 76.

P.Wales     Not the son of Queen Elizabeth II, but he did have a brief walk-on part at the Bethel Street Day Centre for a few weeks in the autumn of 1968. 

Pam Parfitt     A badders bod for a long time, continuing into early 2023 when a combination of polymyalgia and eye problems caused her to review her possibilities. Pam was once a black-belt exponent of the deadly art of Skipping, which often saw her photographed in the local press waving ribbons about, and, of course, a former winner of the Weasenham St Peter Annual Freestyle Skipping Championships. She also took part in the semi-final of the Recreative Dance Section of the National Keep-Fit Championships in 1990.

Patrick Aylmer     The son of the bank manager of James employers’ who was recruited at a time of desperation for our cricket team. Despite being only fourteen he was too good, (his first shot being an immaculate cover drive for four), and thus was not selected again. 

Patrick Lovatt     Began at the Purcell & Johnson Day Centre on 24 June 1985, where it was hoped he would be useful. He was, and soon became one of our most enthusiastic participants in most sports. Wife Jeannette has wielded a mean badders bat for us, though not often enough.

Paul Belton    A stalwart of the remains of the Purcell and Johnson Sports and Social Club (from 14 October 1968) and a surfing architectural technician with Parallel Motion, T-square & Partners. He left on 30 March 1972 but then came back again on 14 August 1972, then left again on 14 July 1977 after a last luncheon at Micawber’s Tavern (Adnams Bitter at 25 pence a pint and Roy Orbison singing ‘It’s Over’ on the Juke Box). After an evening at the Brown Derby and the Pizza Place in Pottergate Paul departed for Lowestoft (although why he did so on a train that was heading to Crewe remains an unsolved mystery). He later became sports officer for Waveney District Council and was lifeguard at Lowestoft. Paul’s advice to us all is “get plenty of exercise and maintain your intake of fluids”.

Paul Bruce.   A cricketer. Probably someone’s friend.

Paul Coleman     He worked with Joy; as do we all, of course. He then worked for the National Trust. 

Paul & Heather Lovatt.    Brother and Mrs. Brother to Patrick. They haven’t been to badders for years. Daughter Alice has still to join us. 

Paul Edwards     (See notes for Joy, who handles all administrative matters for the partnership). Frustrated footballer (due to a failed knee), first choice wicket-keeper since 1991 when he deposed Tony, speechmaker. (These brief notes may need to be rewritten as he has discovered Bitter). Not to be confused with Paul Edwards.

Paul Edwards     Not to be confused with Paul Edwards. This one was the Dip. Arch. (Oxford), IHBC, Historic Environment Specialist in Suffolk, and director of the Suffolk branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England. He joined Pestilent, Mire, & Tiresome on 9 August 1971 and left on 20 August 1972. (John Burton suggested later that Paul was asked to leave partly because of having worn fingerless mittens to meet a client.) Paul designed and built his home from salvaged materials. It then managed to get Listed as being of Historic Interest! Paul died in 2019. 

Paul Farrow     An Eastern Electrician borrowed from our opponents in a cricket match.

Paul Goddard     Briefly a footballer for us. He married Mary in October 2004. 

Paul Gurney-Read     Tony’s brother. He played for us in a badminton match in 1984. 

Paul Harrison    A badders bod many years ago. 

Paul Howe     Son to Jackie and Ian, and a cricketer from 1998 to 2001 before he drifted away to the real world. He married Louise, an Australian, in 2016, and their living in Leigh-on-Sea (actually Leigh-on-the-Thames-Estuary) is, in their minds, a restriction on his availability for the team. Their son Arthur Ian Howe was born in 2017.

Paul Linstead     Once a badders bod, though sadly unable to continue as he’s been suffering from Parkinson’s disease since 2008ish. It didn’t stop him cycling across a wide and bumpy bit of Britain though. 

Paul Saward    He was with us from the summer of 1977 to early 1978. Worked in Colchester before that, or after that, or both.

Paul Thraxton     He played cricket for us once. 

Pete     Arrived with his friend Dino in late 2016 to make badders an alternative to their usual squash.

Peter Wilhelm Johannes Allen    He joined the Arthur Enterprises empire on 26 June 1978. A Dutch-Englishman (or vice-versa) whose achievements include ignoring the M.C.C. coaching manual in favour of a bowling action based entirely on R.A.F. grenade practice. Peter’s vices included accountancy and pushing people out of aircraft; but he moved on. (Unfortunately moving on included agreeing to providing accountancy services for John Ellis, a role from which there is, it seems, no ability to retire). Offspring James (who works at something complicatedly fishy and thus lives in Hull with wife Jill and children Laura and Richard), Matthew (an English teacher), and Kirstyn (living in Kent, working for the Metropolitan Police, and married to Greig, now a retired policeman) have all played their part in our sporting endeavours. Peter’s wife Jan remains tolerant.

Peter Bryan     A former Welsh county badminton player that Pam picked up and who joined us in 2016 when he was a member of the Wensum Sports Centre committee.

Peter Collins     Husband to Ali. Recruited to our ten-pin bowling tournament in 2013. 

Peter Cooper    A physiotherapist, manipulative therapist, osteopath, acupuncturist, and husband to Lesley. He was forced to play cricket for us. Once. With difficulty. Peter died, aged 77, on 15 May 2023.

Peter Francis Nigel Miller     We shape each other’s destiny. We do so with greater artistry because of this man. Born on 8 May 1924 he was the stout middle of the triumvirate that was Purcell Miller & Tritton which gains mention elsewhere midst a vague account of our formative years. He was, for many years, Surveyor to the Fabric of Ely Cathedral. He died on Thursday 12 June 1997 at home with his family after a short illness borne with great dignity and courage. He was buried at sea off the Isle of Wight on 24 June. (His daughter Charlotte married Robert Carter, a builder, in 1981. James’ grandfather taught Robert’s father to use a saw and to hammer in nails). 

Peter-the-Snake    Born 30 November 1977. Whereabouts now uncertain. (see Mopsy, above).

Phil Charles Encouraged by Mark Sheard to join our cricket team in 2024.

Phil Gray     Son to David and Christine, A product of our youth development programme. Appears to have recovered from speculation that he once enjoyed an intimate relationship with Norwich City’s ‘Splat the Cat’. He progressed to the football club’s ticket office and then began auctioning things (unless James had already unscrewed them form the wall and filed them safely away) on the club’s website. Became a badminton regular, though with an interlude after he broke his leg playing footy for Another Team. He can provide sound advice on beard-maintenance. Wife Laura and daughters Dottie and Etty cope with him remarkably well.

Phil Jordan    A cricketer.

Philip & Liz Waller     Philip’s parents Rose and Charlie used to run the Coach and Horses, Union Street, and his grandmother used to run The Champion. This explains much. Philip became a club member on 3 May 1974. He departed on 15 April 1983 to recruit sports people from Peter Codling, Architect. Philip married Liz in 1990. On Saturday 28 July 2007 Miss Isobel Victoria Hemingway Waller, a daughter to Liz and Philip, was born, weighing 8lbs 1oz. She arrived, being Philip’s daughter, 8 days late. (Miss Waller is, of course, named after former Norwich City player Chris Llewellyn). Izzy’s Junior Membership was ratified on 3 August 2007.

Phillip Ribbons    Cricketer borrowed from Lambert, Scott, and Innes.

Raj Patel     Joined our cricket team as a result of being the father to Virad.

Raphael Wilkinson.     Arrived at badminton in 2009. Wandered off.

Ray Wardale     Worked on the railways for 40 years before retiring in 1993. Once a stalwart of our badminton and cricket teams (and guilty of attempting to entice us into the frustrating sport of orienteering) before an ankle injury ended his playing career in 2001. Now Chairman of our Cricket Supporters’ Association and granted Life Membership in gratitude for his having been one of the few members never to have been a nuisance. His son Simon is listed below.

Rhiannon Alger    Daughter to Graham and Tracy; badders bod. 

Richard Archer     Founder of the Borsetshire cricket team and happy to assist us when we were needy. Like James a Pastonian, albeit an even younger one. 

Richard II     Probably someone that Paul knows; which doesn’t do much to identify him. Not the monarch given a bad write-up by Shakespeare, but a cricketer for us. (Richard I did not play for us; he was too busy kinging). 

Richard III     A friend of Matthew Allen’s recruited into our cricket team. (Said, repeatedly, that he knew nothing about the princes in the tower, and later spent many years under a car-park in Leicester).

Richard Chapman     A Norfolk County Council bod recruited by Ian Hydes, to our cricket team in 2013. Not regal. 

Richard Crane     He joined Parallel Motion & T-Square on 29 March 1967 and left on 2 August 1968 so does not really feature in our doings. However his cousin Nick Crane often appears on our televisions as he strides around the coast of Britain. In 1986 the two of them located the pole of inaccessibility of the Eurasia landmass – see their book ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’. In 1992 they were awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for journeys in Tibet, China, Afghanistan, and Africa. Gosh.

Richard Maynard   Briefly a cricketer. Mostly memorable for not being a former monarch. Might have been Adam’s brother. 

Richard Pike     Came to Bethel Street on 15 July 1968 to prepare for our arrival. He escaped Enterprise House on 13 April 1973 and scurried away to Cromer where he established Richard Pike Associates Ltd., not far from the Red Lion. They later based themselves in Norwich. He also operates Pike Solar which seems to do things to bring economical and efficient renewable power to a host of blue-chip customers and involves dealing with Americans. Richard is married to Sally, and they have a couple of offspringings. He’s an Ambassador at Norwich City Football Club which involves wearing a tie and sitting on squidgy seats. He became known subliminally to the masses attending matches at Carrow Road from announcements that followed each goal and identified him as its sponsor. 

Richard Queensborough     A work colleague of Jasmine’s who assisted our cricket team.

Richard Whitbourn     A brother to Stephen and a participant for us in various sports a long time ago. 

Rita Nicholls     Sidled about Enterprise House from 19 July 1976 to 1 November 1976 enquiring “How many teas and how many coffees?”

Robert Forster     Once, a very good badminton player. In 1998 he cycled to the Taj Mahal with Wendy Burrell, saying “I have always wanted to go walking in the Himalayas”. In 2014 they sold their house and went to live on a longboat, ‘Gertie’. 

Robert Tenner    A former Pastonian. Became a stalwart of our Athletics team, setting several Club records. 

Rosalyn Smith     Was at Enterprise House for a few weeks in early 1974.

Rosemary White     With us at Enterprise House for a few weeks in 1980.

Rosie     Serving wench at the Brown Derby (formerly the Morning Star, later the Birdcage). Given exhaustive membership appraisal by Mr Nuthall on 23 December 1977 but has yet to return her application form. She departed from the Brown Derby on 7 January 1978. 

Saleha     Once a Bluelight, she arrived at badders at the tail-end of 2011.

Sam     The Club Vice-dog; in the sense being less senior than Mopsy, rather than being prone to vice. (Vice-ratings for Sam’s people, Neil and Tamara, have been deemed inappropriate for inclusion on this site by our Standards Moderator). Sam died in February 2013. 

Sanjay Shah     Knowledgeable cricketer (though with a tendency to play also for almost all our opponents until his retirement from the game at the end of the 2010 season), knowledgeable badminton coach, though, of course, we do not have coaches at badminton as it would increase our insurance premium and involve us in much form-filling. Almost organises curry evenings. Miss Abigail Krystal Shah arrived at 6.03 a.m. on 25 December 2006 – she will, no doubt, grow up to be a little cracker.

Sarah Ellis     Formerly a badders bod with Bluelights (another club, not some reference to a hair colorant) who came to us in January 2011. Enhances our multi-cultural diversity rating by being somewhat Scottish. Probably, therefore, not related to John Ellis. 

Sarah Sharp     Another Bluelights badders bod, (also playing at Taverham with Neil & Tamara Parfitt). Perhaps our only left-handed lady?

Sara Rawlings   Assistant to Mopsy (see above). Sara arrived at Enterprise House on 22 May 1978. She went to take Mopsy for a walk on 26 November 1980 and didn’t come back until our Mayday celebration in 2015.

Saskia     who had heard about us still decided to join us, arrived for badders just before Christmas 2023. She had, she revealed, previously performed mostly in Gentlemen’s Clubs. The misunderstanding was soon corrected.

Shawn Kholucy    Shawn arrived at Enterprise House on 4 December 1978. He lurched out into the wider world on 27 April 1979 clutching his squirrel mug and a big book. In 1980 he gained a Scholarship to Jerusalem from the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings. Sends lovely Christmas cards.

Sheila Bullers     Cast as a pantomime dame which perhaps was not her preferred role. She made her entrance on 7 February 1983 and marched offstage to her home at Salhouse on 19 March 1984. Sheila later battled with Alzheimer’s disease before her death on 6 February 2013, aged 83. It seems 30 years of us was too much for her. 

Sheila Dalzell    She arrived on 4 March 1981 to provide secretarial services to Arthur Enterprises before slipping away somewhere during 1982. By 2021 she was overcoming cancer and walking again.

Simon Butterworth    A cricketer. Someone must remember where we got him.

Simon Clayton     Came to Bethel Street to improve his speling on 10 July 1972. He departed from Enterprise House on 17 June 1977. (He returned on 22 June to collect his jacket, then left again). Has been known to play badders against us. Still sails; still cycles about.

Simon Franklin     A cricketer. Twice. We can’t remember him though.

Simon Hill     Janet’s son. A cricketer and badders bod. 

Simon Wardale     Son of Ray. Also played most impressively for our cricket team and took The Best Catch Ever Seen. Once ‘had a thing with’ Carol Vorderman - on television. (8 May 2000, something to do with bathrooms). 

Siobhan M     No, not the one who had a baby with Brian Aldridge in Ambridge. Briefly a badders bod.

Stephen Colman     Along with son Joe, played badminton with us long ago.

Stephen, Jill, Christopher, and Emily Spinks     Ten Pinners. Related to Patrick (and to the former Norwich City player). 

Steve Claxton    A cricketer. He had approached us thinking his role in life was to be A Customer of Paul’s. 

Steve Davis     Brother to Chris. Joined our cricket squad in 2009. Interestingly he likes to play snooker… He is also an entirely capable tree surgeon and thus able, though not perhaps willing, to shin up trees to retrieve lost balls, kites, club dogs, youth team members, grumpily hurled cricket pads, and the like. Curtailed by a back problems.

Steve Flagg    Arrived for badders with Robert Forster, but his enthusiasm, well, flagged.

Steve Lymn    Played a few games of cricket as an excuse for a beer.

Steve Minns     Badders bod. He weighed 10lbs 2ozs when born. A developer/administrator for Sinclair International (World Class Label Solutions) at Bowthorpe, he frequently appears at the Beer Festival.

Steve Ovett     He was granted honorary membership when he agreed to James’ request for him to run for us in the Sunday Times Hyde Park event in 1981. Unfortunately, he had to drop out of the team once he realised he was due to be on honeymoon that weekend. 

Steve Restorick     A cricketer recruited from arch-rivals Feilden + Mawson. (He retired from their architectural world in February 2015). His Godfather was Jim Laker who in 1956 took 19 Australian wickets in a Test match at Old Trafford.

Steve Whitbourn    Husband to Gail and a participant in our sports and other fun in the days of our Bethel Street Training Camp. He died on 16 December 1987.

Steven Someone     A cricketer, albeit briefly. Matthew Allen found him somewhere.

Steve Someone-else     Another cricketer. Possibly related to anyone. 

Susan Alexander   (Susan Latoy until she snared Jeremy for our cricket team). Came to us with excellent references (tall, blonde, grandfather played cricket for Norfolk) on 3 November 1980. Our Captain of Horse, though with rather restricted duties as we don’t have any horses. Retired on 27 May 1983 to an easier life on their farm.

Susan Cross     Appeared in our universe on 22 February 1971. In charge of iced coffee at Enterprise House until her departure on 27 June 1975. (Members of the Purcell and Johnson Sports and Social Club insist that instant coffee made with warm water from the Heatrae made them what they were). Susan’s husband was a miller by trade and owned a mill south of Norwich. 

Suzanne Hall     (Not a relation of Maggie, Dick, Dan, and Catherine Hall. Or of the Margaret Harker Memorial Hall). Once a badders bod; due to return one day.

Terri Lake     Wife to Martin and transformed into a badders bod in January 2017.

Terry    Not the subject of a morbid 1960’s pop song, but a badders bod. He used to serve from very wide in the service box; he probably still does somewhere.

Tim Bower    Cricketer. A forgettable one it seems.

Tim Powter-Robinson     He enrolled with us on 16 July 1984. Nice chap and proud possessor of the worst career bowling figures in our history. He left us on 21 September 1984. (He did, however, bowl a maiden over at Lakenham, marrying Sylvia in 1988). He became a partner at Cowper Griffith Architects in Whittlesford, Cambridge. 

Tom     A good badminton player and good chap. We have no idea how he came to us or where he went, but he came back in 2016 after a 12-year absence, (which was nice). 

Tom Weaver     Son of Geoffrey, brother of Matthew. Played cricket for us most capably before going off to university. 

(An)Tony Anastasiou    Badders bod who arrived in 2004; his participation is somewhat curtailed by living on the wrong side of the globe. For a while he drove trains on the underground. He married a Chinese lady and worked for an engineering firm dealing with translations between English & Chinese. He played footy for the multi-national Shanghai Reunited (on loan from The Arthur Sporting Club). By 2016 they had returned to England and were living in Peterborough. A daughter arrived in December 2018.

Tony Fedden     Tony, from Poringland, was for many years a very good badders bod and always a most honourable club member. When unable to continue playing because of illness he asked to be allowed to part from us without fuss. Thus we record simply that he died in the autumn of 2010. 

Tony Gumby-Read     Had an enthusiastic and most capable involvement in most of our early activities, now frustratingly hampered from frequent participation by life, the family, and everything. He has progressed from squash to racket ball, but we have not had a go at that yet. 

Tony Hare   Like many of the bods listed here, most of you did not know him. He was, though, responsible for encouraging James in many things since they met at school in 1965, and influential in shaping many of our enterprises. He ran for us in the Hyde Park races and would have been much more fully involved in club activities had he not been a Very Busy Bod living in Dulwich. He was more enthusiastic than most people, and, importantly, was able to convey it. He ran his own company ‘Tony Hare Communications,’ “helping you get the right message to the right people to get the right results”, and was involved in a bewildering range of work including training and advice on communicating through television and newspapers, event management, marketing work, leadership training; gadding about the world with a significant involvement in ecological matters including climate change, biodiversity, & sustainable development. He made a few television programmes, wrote a book or two, and, I think, put the first song on the internet. Tony died suddenly on 6 January 2010 but continues to provoke good ideas.

Tony Hudson     He arrived at Enterprise House on 4 June 1979, engaged in our tennis, left us on 31 August 1979, returned with cakes on 3 September, and left again. He now has his own architectural firm in Norwich and London, necessitating a reversion to Anthony.

Tony Johnson    A cricketer recruited in desperation. (He’d been to college with James 22 years earlier). 

Tony Parkins     Bouncy person and our website enabler.

Tony Phillips     A friend of Martin Lake’s since they were aged four, he was recruited to our cricket team in 2015, several years after he stopped playing for Rockland St Mary. 

Capt. Trevor Hook.     A very fine sportsman, though probably late. Daughter Charlotte Amy clocked in on 1 November 2006. Trevor and Jill’s son Alex, their second child, arrived in February 2009, causing Trevor to be unavailable for several cricket seasons.

Trevor Pattinson    Not known to be unduly sporting; did provide James with guidance on the better wine bars of Chelsea. Trevor was also responsible for the army recruitment window displays where some stern soldiers stood beside some piece of gunnery with a placard saying ‘Find and Destroy’. Trevor died in April 2019. 

Tyron Cook    Son of Darren. A good cricketer who joined us in 2004 when young. He soon became too good so we sent him away.

Vanessa Garrod     Played badminton and had several children, though not simultaneously.

Vernon Buttle     An original badders bod who continued to improve and went off to play to a higher standard. His sister Maria was an early badders bod too. He makes teeth. 

Virad Patel     Another youthful cricketer who we sent away as he was becoming too good!

Walter Norton    Lurked in the cellars at Enterprise House with his quill and ledgers. Spoke many languages including several dialects of Mandarin. He retired from Arthur Enterprises on 12 February 1976 with the intention of breeding rabbits. He died in November 1995.

Warren Brooks     Cricketer (or at least he was until he became too busy running a poker school). Still hasn’t arrived for the 2008 Annual Dinner. Shares with Humphrey Bogart the distinction of being born on Christmas Day. Nearly left these shores, (What shores? Oh, thanks a pint of Old please…), for Australia in 2013 but changed course for Nottingham University. Lives above and helps run the Fat Cat and Canary…

Wayne Dunthorne     A cricketer, albeit a slow-starting one with almost eight years between his first two appearances. One of Paul’s many recruits. A racehorse owner; or at least the owner of bits, unspecified, of a racehorse. 

Wenda Fabian BA Dip. Arch., R.I.B.A., I.H.B.C.   Wenda recalls fondly that she once saw a boat called ‘Wenda’. She arrived at Enterprise House on 1 October 1979, having heard that our summer outing was on the following day. She went from our midst on 3 June 1983 with husband Matthew to Hexham to develop our north-eastern sporting power-base but was led astray and became a Planning Inspector. In May 2009 she finished a pier to pier race in 67 minutes 31 seconds. We assume she was running rather than swimming.

Wendy Burrell    Partner to Robert Forster, and erstwhile badders bod.

Suggestions for inclusion should be submitted to the Central Registry at Castle Arthur for assessment.