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 Like many club pros of my era golf clubs bearing the names of the
Gadd brothers are still around, including the ‘Gadfly’ iron, which
was my own design. It featured an early form of weight distribution
in the head with the weight high on the back of the long irons and
progressively lower down for the medium and short clubs. My son Tim
contacted Peter Alliss, who kindly put out an appeal for Gadd clubs.
I received twenty-three from around the country, most of which have
been passed on to golf clubs as trophies. Three iron heads were
mounted and presented to the Worcestershire Golf Club, where we
learned our golf on the old Common, Brancepeth Castle received two;
one was mounted and became the Charles Gadd Trophy (Page 17) and
others are at my present club, Ellesmere Port. An American
 collector
called to see me a while ago hoping to buy old clubs or trophies
from my tournament successes in the thirties. He told me that he had
bought a trophy from Charlie Ward, but I had nothing to sell him
even if I had wanted to.
(The ‘lost’ Bert Gadd collection from those days is sitting on a
shelf somewhere, possibly in Sheffield)
The Ellesmere Port club awarded me honorary life membership of their
Veteran’s Section and elected me Club vice-president in 1996 and
Veteran’s captain in 1998.
In 1999 my friends at the club sprang a surprise on me when the
routine Vet’s June medal was converted into the BBC medal – Bert’s
Birthday Celebration medal, a competition organised for my ninetieth
birthday. My daughter Jo came for the party, during which I was
presented with a pen by the
Lady Captain and a card signed by all 48 players. There
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