The Sportsman Public House Goldington

The Sportsman, August 2017

The Sportsman Public House: 58 The Boundary, Goldington

This Charles Wells public house opened in 1955. Unlike the company’s other two modern Goldington pubs, The Century and The Golden Lion, The Sportsman is still [2017] extant and still open as a pub.

Licensees: Note that this is not a complete list; italics indicate licensees whose beginning and/or end dates are not known:

• 1965-1967: Hubert Crowsley & Bernard Masi
• 1967-1968: Hubert Crowsley & John Edward Williams
• 1968-1969: Hubert Crowsley & Colin Roger Morris
• 1969: Hubert Crowsley & William John Stevenson Shand
• 1969-1970: Hubert Crowsley & Stuart Anthony Rice
• 1970-1974: Hubert Crowsley & David John Streamer
• 1974-1976: Hubert Crowsley & William Henry Marsh
• 1976: Hubert Crowsley & Harry James Theobald
• 1976: Richard Rawson Wolstenholme Hancock & Harry James Willett
• 1976-1979: Richard Rawson Wolstenholme Hancock & Stanley Anthony Guthrie
• 1979-1982: Richard Rawson Wolstenholme Hancock & George Edward Jackson
• 1982: Richard Rawson Wolstenholme Hancock & Benjamin Parsonage
• 1982-1983: George John Baker & Edward John Hohbein
• 1983: Derek Charles Gibbs & Edward John Hohbein
• 1983-1986: Derek Charles Gibbs & David Allenden
• 1986-1988: Derek Charles Gibbs & Henry Albert Lawrence
• 1988: Henry Albert Lawrence & Raymond Reginald Sydney Wheldal
• 1988-1990: Adrian Charles Cunnington & Raymond Reginald Sydney Wheldal
• 1990-1991: John Henry Rumgay & Douglas John Baker
• 1991-1992: Keith Michael Betts & Douglas John Baker
• 1992-1993: Douglas John Baker & Brian Hunt
• 1993-1995: Victor Henry Masterson

List of sources at Bedfordshire Archives:

• PSB9/2: Register of alehouse licenses: c.1955-1995
• WL722/10: Article regarding extension of The Sportsman, 1974
• BTNegPostA7447: Negatives on Charity Bottle breaking Sportsman pub - Goldington, 1984