From 1689 until the inn closed in 1960, the Corporation dined at The Unicorn. Since then we have dined at various locations in the vicinity. It was from these convivial functions that the Corporation received its nickname ‘The Wheelbarrow Club’. Tradition has it that apprentices were instructed to wait outside The Unicorn with wheelbarrows in which they pushed home those of their masters who were drunk or incapable. This custom is celebrated by the symbol of a wheelbarrow on the club tie.
Lol I looked it up and saw the same thing. Very interesting.
Imagine all these drunks being wheeled home by their apprentices
Ken Saari?
Ken Saari, graduated 1965
Hi John,
Can you tell us more about the Wheelbarrow Club?
https://www.stpancrascorporation.org.uk/about-us-history-chichester-west-sussex/
Why ‘The Wheelbarrow Club’?
From 1689 until the inn closed in 1960, the Corporation dined at The Unicorn. Since then we have dined at various locations in the vicinity. It was from these convivial functions that the Corporation received its nickname ‘The Wheelbarrow Club’. Tradition has it that apprentices were instructed to wait outside The Unicorn with wheelbarrows in which they pushed home those of their masters who were drunk or incapable. This custom is celebrated by the symbol of a wheelbarrow on the club tie.
I am as interested as you are about that name. Sadly I do not know, Maybe it will show up somewhere else.