Mr. MacWood:
Even if you've been told a number of times before, apparently you are just a remarkably stubborn man who just isn't inclined to listen to anyone but you really do need to start to listen to some of us who do know because you do have a real bad tendency to sort of glorifying the likes of people like Campbell and Barker and some of these other Scottish emigrant pro/greenkeeper/clubmaker/part time architects into something that was so much more than the way they were looked at back then.
You also have this constant tendency to assume that some of these well-known so-called "amateur/sportsmen" architects just couldn't have done the things they've been given credit for doing. The fact is they did do them the way they've been given credit for no matter what YOU assume or think. I guess this is precisely why you sort of assume in club after club like this that even board members involved in trying to accomplish these projects are lying or that their records are flawed or seriously flawed. They aren't, Mr MacWood. They aren't seriously flawed. What is seriously flawed is your intepretations because you really don't understand how that world was and how it worked back then with the likes of a Leeds and a Campbell or White.
The fact is, no matter how much you assume they couldn't have done those projects as reported because you assume they couldn't have known how, and that they just had to depend on some expert to tell them what to do, I'm afraid in most of these cases like Leeds, Crump, Wilson, Fownes, it just wasn't that way at all.
It definitely does not sound attractive in this day and age and in a way I sort of hate to say it for that reason but people like Campbell, White, Barker and others like that were considered to be basically rank employees and they basically did what they were told to do by people like a Leeds.
Some day you're going to need to understand that better even if it may offend your sensibilities of today as it sort of does mine as well. I don't like it but I've never denied it because I don't like it or don't understand the way it once was. Men like that were not glorified like that apparently the way you think they were way back then and noone, including you can change the way it was back then because you don't like the way it was. We didn't live back then, they did, and that's the way the world was. They weren't necessarily mean spirited, even if Papa Leeds probably was and matter of fact notoriously so, which you also don't understand even if the club sure does and in spades. I don't even want to mention some of the things he did and the way he could be sometimes
I'm sorry, Mr. Macwood, but for all you think you know about the history of architecture and the people who idd it back then this is one fundamental truth you obviously just don't get at all.
And this is precisely why a guy like Barker went home and never came back. That was just the way it was and you're going to have to understand it someday if you ever want to understand that world and the way it was.
I know you will categorically refuse to take my word for this, and I can understand that. Don't take my word for it. Perhaps, you should call up Mr Cornish while he's still around. He knows---I guarantee you that. I had this conversation with him 5-6 years ago. He probably didn't like it any more than I did but he knows, that's for sure. You need to learn this, Tom MacWood, it is the only way you'll ever really understand it ultimately.
It's just a shame you are so stubborn and for some reason assume that you know it all. Like all of us you need to learn some things. I realize just mentioning that probaby deeply offends you and I'm sorry about that but it is the truth.