Unmitigated Disaster for my Club

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I'm afraid I don't hold out any hope that we'll get anything back. I guess we just have to hold on to the fact that it is the heart and soul of a club that really makes it a good club - not the various artifacts - nice though they are.

 

[Brookesy]

Absolute disgrace, im hearing more and more thefts and it is getting worse. I never would have thought that they would go as far as to steal trophies! Really hope the club finds them and you get them back.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

My previous club in Bristol used to allow members to take any trophy they won home for the year. Always thought it was risky around losing one - but then again you're not going to lose the lot that we now have

 

[G1BB0]

all the scum bags see is £££. Even if caught they would get a fine and a bit of community service - great eh

As you said above SILH a club is more than a few trophies and I am sure whatever the outcome that will remain and it will rise above this setback :thup:

 

[MashieNiblick]

Thanks for words of support all - and yes @DarthVega - that's the frigate on our home page - about 18" high. Valuers reckoned it couldn't be replaced as skills no longer with us.

Wow, even from that little picture you can see that it is a work of art.

So sorry for your club. That is heartbreaking. Hope they get it and the others back.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Not much I can add but add my condolence to everyone at the club. Not much you can do but put the word out and pray that somehow, somewhere, someone will recognise the stuff and get it back to its rightful home although in these tmes I'm afraid I fear the worse

 

[louise_a]

What an awful shame, the trophy I won on sunday was quickly taken off me after the presentation to be returned to the cabinet.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

ach well - what's done is done. They'll be a few lumps of metal by now no doubt. Worst things happening in Syria :-(

 

[SocketRocket]

ach well - what's done is done. They'll be a few lumps of metal by now no doubt. Worst things happening in Syria :-(

What!!!! Thats a bit like saying if someone gets a leg blown off then so what, its better than people who had both blown off.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

What!!!! Thats a bit like saying if someone gets a leg blown off then so what, its better than people who had both blown off.

No - our trophies are gone and they are most likely lumps of metal - if so there is nothing we can do about it. We are very upset at our loss but loss it most probably is unless someone's conscience tells them not to destroy irreplaceable things.

Well - I suppose I must retain some hope in human nature and that is possible. But I fear all is lost there - but that does not remove the heart from my club. We will prevail. Do I care what happens if those responsible are caught. Yes. But it makes no difference to our loss. Our heritage, though, is not lost - though the visible artifacts of much of it may well be. We will always be the Silver Frigate Golf Club.

 

[Foxholer]

I understand a similar disaster occurred at Laleham GC a month or so ago too.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I had a look at the club website, the frigate really is a pretty little thing. Very unusual emblem for an inland club though, more of a naval/seaside type of thing. Do you know the history of it by any chance SILH?

 

[CMAC]

@SWIH, its worth having a pop up or banner on your clubs website home page for a couple of weeks...............you never know.....

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I had a look at the club website, the frigate really is a pretty little thing. Very unusual emblem for an inland club though, more of a naval/seaside type of thing. Do you know the history of it by any chance SILH?

The frigate is - I think - a model of the Golden Hind - or similar. The Golden Hind being a Farnham symbol

This from the Farnham town heritage leaflet...

The Borough runs east and west across the foot of Castle Street. The eastern corner is dominated by The Town Hall Buildings, an impressive block with frontages on to Castle Street and the Borough, built over several years in the 1930s and replacing the Victorian Gothic Corn Exchange. The building is crowned with a clock tower and a weather vane featuring a model of Sir Francis Drake's ship the Golden Hind, made of beaten copper gilded over, and representing the Ship of Plenty, a good omen.

As Farnham was a wealthy market town I'm guessing on a 'Ship of Plenty' / trading association - the original Market Hall (now demolished) being at the bottom of Castle Street adjacent to where the the old Town Hall was built. So the Solver Frigate is important to the town as well as the golf club.

Also wasn't that little...good 18" high. Fantastic piece of craftsmanship. I believe it was made by some captured french soldier/sailor during the Napoleonic War

 

[arnieboy]

Apparently both West Sussex and Seaford Golf Clubs have had their trophies stolen recently too.

 

[Fader]

See an article by Al Dunsmuir on this earlier today, apparently a spate of it going on in the south/south west, with several other clubs suffering the same fate. Even mentioned the Frigate trophy by name and the fact its valued at over 6figures but is effectively irreplaceable due to the craftmanship and history.

 

[CMAC]

update and pic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-20023035

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

update and pic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-20023035

Didn't realise they were considerate enough to pull their balaclavas up when in the clubhouse right below one of our CCTV cameras... Nice pic of our Frigate trophy in one of the linked pages - ah well

 

[ScienceBoy]

Didn't realise they were considerate enough to pull their balaclavas up (

Dress code?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Dress code?

Ah quite - well spotted sir.