Spot on!! Well done John, though I thought Larry or Bill would be first. Ben Drinkwater was in partnership with Tom Robinson's father, (Tom still MD of the company, and was a keen trials rider). So when Ben was lost at the TT, I think it was 1949, the business passed to the Robinson family. Incidentally the joint owner of Robinsons is David Dearden, who raced the Manx in the 80's, and who manages the KTM Supermoto team. David's dad was not Reg Dearden,(as a lot of folk think) but Crowther Dearden. I would always think of the Robinson family when running down to the 11th Milestone.
To be perfectly honest, there's hardly a corner on the course that doesn't have a memory for me, either as a little boy being taken round by my Dad, or being on the back of brother Tony on a Tiger 100, or taking David round as a young boy.
So many memories, shame to waste them on a bloomin golf course!!!