By 1881, the Sportsman was home to Thomas Walton, «
beer house keeper», his wife, their six children and a carman (driver of a horse - drawn vehicle), according to the Census of that year.
There is nothing to suggest he was a pig farmer as opposed to a
beer -
house keeper — and it seems that a team called Woolwich Union had been playing on his field for a couple of seasons before Royal Arsenal started using it, suggesting that any herds of anything were long gone, if, indeed, there had ever been any herds.