History The latter half of the nineteenth century saw Broadway village in a transition phase. For two hundred years it had been a major coaching centre, placed as it is on the Worcester, Oxford, London Road, but in 1860 the opening of the railway in Evesham made coaches obsolete almost overnight. Gradually the village changed into a beautiful, quiet backwater, a Mecca for the Victorian elite society. It was into this ethos arrived a man, who according to his contemporaries, was quite remarkable; he had unbounded energy, great organising skills, and a sort of Pied Piper magnetism which drew everyone into his schemes. This man was Dr Charles Turner Standring, twenty-nine years of age. He reorganised the Cricket Club, formed the Football Club, and became Secretary of the Tennis Club, and most importantly founded the Golf Club – in other words he was the proto-type sporting doctor. With some friends he began to play on a few holes “some extemporised links in Deans Meadow” (now the home of the Cricket Club) according to the contemporary Evesham Journal. This “taster” must have been successful because they sought better facilities. In fact it took four further moves before the club finally became settled on what we now call “the bottom nine” in 1911, to be increased to eighteen holes in 1962.