Ball Boys

For some twenty years, Wimbledon Ball Boys were Goldings Boys. Right from the very first Wimbledon after the second World War, through 'till its closure, Goldings supplied the finest Ball Boys ever to grace the courts of that famous ground. We firmly believe that had Goldings been still open today, we would still be the number one choice for this event.

Since Goldings closed, Wimbledon have selected Ball Boys/Girls from many different schools and colleges, but there is not one establishment that has supplied the number of boys/girls needed with the right aptitude and skills. as did Goldings.

Many Old Boys have some very good memories of their participation in this prestigious event, and were and still are proud to have been chosen as a representative of Goldings at Wimbledon as Ball Boys. In the short time that we have started gathering information, which funnily enough was instigated by a young girls request for help with a school project, we have received some very positive response indeed. In fact, I think it would be fair to say, this has generated the best response to anything that we have undertaken to date. The quest for information this time has benefits for the web site and also this young girls project.

Goldings had mixed reception from the area in which it was situated, and, for a great deal of the time its reputation was not the best it could have been. But our reputation as Number One Ball Boys in the world still stands today.

I feel that it would be true to say that during its lifetime Goldings most likely received more anti support than pro support from most of the people surrounding the school. This is an opportunity to show that we were not really bad, (well, not all the time anyway), so come on, dig deep into those recesses of your memories and keep on sending them in.

If you were a Ball Boy, please fill in the on-line form, alternatively send us your email address and we can send the form to you. Even if you do not want to fill in the form, we are still interested to receive your memories that cover part of the Twenty Years that Goldings were the sole suppliers of Wimbledon Ball Boys.

The Web team.

To see the rest of the section of the Ball Boys archive  we have stored click here