Welcome to 2025

I'm keeping my little man for 2025

Draws Completed !

Ok Today the draws were held for the various competitions and are now available to see on the club competitions page

We Are Back!

Its the first bowl up of the season on Monday with our first game on Thursday , lets hope for a good season !!!!

Dates for your 2025 Diaries

Well here we go again, A look forward to what's happening this coming year so add them to your diaries now so you don't miss out on the fun !

First Roll up 28th April

 Well After the Stirling work of John Atkinson and Norman Leslie plus a few others, we turned up to see the green and gardens looking in very good shape. We were rewarded by 5 or 6 newcomers to the club and Mike Jeffreys took them to one side for the first session to teach them the ropes and by all accounts did an excellent job. As well as the newcomers we also had about 20 members there on a glorious sunny day which was perfect for our first roll up. We stopped for a cuppa halfway through which was the ideal opportunity to greet the newbies and catch up with old friends, So a Brilliant start to the season.

Chairmans Social 29th April

Well we all know how cold it is at the end of April so chairman Paul decided on a quiz and some munches rather than play bowls. As always when you plan ahead it went wrong, It was probably one of the hottest days in April for a while but your not to know that are you.

Anyway Paul asked me to to do a quiz and rather than be the normal competitive quiz that i normally do, teams were allowed to be whatever just for a bit of fun. I think about 25 people turned up and for a Fiver each we were given some gorgeous hotdogs and then some delicious cake that had been made by the ladies (Sue And Chin i think) which we enjoyed after the hotdogs (supplied by Lynne and Tricia)

Anyway back to the quiz, did i say non competitive ? As i shouted out the answers , you could see teams hoping they were going to be the winners ! There were 40 questions and i think a team won with 33 with two teams finishing on 32. I also did a mini marathon round of 45 questions which a team won with 42 i think.

Anyway I think everyone really enjoyed the evening so well done chairman Paul for organising.

First game 1st May v Riverain

Our first fixture of the year v Riverain, again on what must have been one of the hottest ever First day games. Riverain could only get 7 Players so I tried to see if i could get some extras to make up the nine from each side. I couldn't so i confirmed with there captain that we would just play two rinks. This is where the problems started, on arrival there captain asked who we were going to loan to them, I replied No one  as i had confirmed two Rinks. Evidently a rink is four players but we only had taken 6 players, I didn't know that a rink was four, i thought it was somewhere where you bowled. Anyway we ended up playing 3 players each on two rinks !

As for the game itself we were 12-9 up at the halfway stage as we stopped for a cup of tea. We then resumed battle after the tea and I think the tea must have had an effect on all players as Paul's Team Romped home 17-8. But Jeff's team struggled a little and after Paul's team had finished it came down to Jeff's team to play the last end with the scores at 27-27. Unfortunately we couldn't get the result we needed and lost the end by 4 shots but a very enjoyable day.

Teams Were

Stephen Field, Chin Tory and Paul Riseborough Won 17-8

Bernard Higgs, John Atkinson and Jeff Tebbutt Lost 10-23

Final Score Lost 27-31

Season Results P1 W0 D0 L1   

VE Day Celebrations 5th May

The stepping out players performed the songs from the 1940's and a very enjoyable evening it was. Along with the songs , there was some great food and cake as well as a quiz. It also raised some money for club coffers. So a great result and well done to all for organising. I took a video of the last song with the intention of putting on here but having trouble at the moment , i will work on it !

Fund raising evening May 13th

Unfortunately I do not have any details on this , even though i did ask Jeff ! but hopefully it was a good evening and Jeff's efforts managed to raise £150 for club funds.

May 14th v Letchworth Garden City

Report by Paul Riseborough

Team were

Team 1 Sue Douglas, Robin Edmett And Jeff Tebbutt Won 16-13

Team 2 Norman Leslie, Peggy Atkins and John Atkinson Won 19-11

Team 3 Malcolm Summerville, Tony Glenn and Paul Riseborough Won 22-11

Final Score Won 57-35

Season Results P2 W1 D0 L1   

May 15th v Letchworth Garden City

 Report by Jeff Tebbutt

Today we entertained Sandy on a much cooler day than 14th. All teams played well and when we went in for tea we were winning on 2 rinks and drawing on the 3rd.. An overall win by 58 to 24. I am delighted to get a win in this seasons opener for me as captain. The wagtail kept invading the green to encourage us and narrowly escaped collisions with the bowls.!!!! A lucky mascot perhaps.

Well done all the bowlers.

Team were

Team 1  Stephen Field, Mike Jeffreys and Brian Hutchings won  19 -13. 

Team 2 Bernard Higgs, Linda Clark and Paul Riseborough won17- 7

. Team 3 Rae Glenn, Robin Edmett and Jeff Tebbutt won 22-4

 Final Score Won 58-24

Season Results P3 W2 D0 L1  

FINALS DAY RESULTS 2024.

Triples

Due to the number of teams entering this year , the triples only had one league so it was decided the winner of the Competition would be the team with the most points having played all of there games.

This came down to the final game of the season with Brian's team needing a win to claim title. They managed it and are this years triples champions. Well Done

Team was Sub, Mike Jeffreys & Brian Hutchins 

PAIRS 

The Pairs this year were Contested by Brian Hutchins and Gill Crane against Derek Guilder and Malcolm Summerville. It looks a very one sided match as Brian and Gill run out winners 21-5.

Singles

I marked this game and after an even start John Atkinson and Derek Guilder were 10 -10 . Then i think Derek took a one shot lead so 11-10 but the deciding end came next with Derek taking all 4 shots. John was never able to recover from and Derek won 21-11 in a game which lasted for 22 ends !

TEMBEY.

This years finalists were John Atkinson and last years winner John Wigglesworth. John who had lost the singles in the morning was obviously determined as he won the 22-16 in a very close game.

HAROLD HARDY 

The first set was won by myself 8-3 with Paul taking the 2nd set so it went to a decisive 3rd. At 3-3 i bowled a couple of good woods to be holding 2 but Paul managed to move the jack and win the end. I think this happened 2 or 3 times more as Paul won the set 7-3 so no matter how well i bowled Paul seemed to bowl better to deservedly win.

OVER 75's 

2WOOD PAIRS

Finalists Steve Field and Mike Jeffreys played Trisha Jeffreys and Jeff Tebbutt.  

The first to ten in the 2 wood Pairs and Jeff's Team were leadin 9-8 on the last end but a two from Mikes team meant that the final score was 10-9 in a very close match

2WOOD SINGLES

Pete Moss played Barbara Guilder in this match with Pete winning 7-0 but it must be said that Barbara who was playing in her first competition and using some woods she chose at the start bowled well throughout the day

WHITWORTH TROPHY

This game took place after Finals Day with John Atkinson and Derek Guilder taking part so a repeat of the singles final. I had a word with Derek after and he said it was very much like the singles final, except in reverse as John won this 21-11, even the scores were the same.