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In the distance the encroaching modern era is further evident by the tennis courts and bowling green - both installed around the time of the First World War.
Today they accommodate cricket pitches, a bowling green and formal gardens, as well as tennis.
This monastic cell of St Mary's Abbey in York, of which the chancel remains, is now in a municipal park and is surrounded by a bowling green and fenced football pitch.
Today, the house at the bottom left corner is no more, and the grass is kept in bowling-green condition by the resident lock keeper.
During the 1930s two additional bowling greens were laid out at separate locations within the borough, one at Marine Gardens in 1930 (see W147157) and one at Church House Grounds in 1937.
The Bandstand (foreground) once stood on the site of today's public bowling green before moving to this site near Smeaton's Tower.
Pontefract General Infirmary now overlooks the bowling green in this oasis of greenery near to the town centre.
As well as indoor facilities (see R84059, above), an athletics track, tennis courts, soccer pitches and a bowling green are all available at the sports centre, which occupies a semi-rural site not far
The bowling green is surrounded by beach huts and set amidst suburbia in St Edmund's Road, with Cordy's Regal restaurant, now The Alex, to the right.
The bowling pavilion on the right, and some of the local housing is in the background.
The thatched bowls pavilion in the distanct was built in 1923; gates inot the park commemorate the parks opening by the Lord Mayor of London in October 1892.
Withnell Fold's Sports and Social Club is still going strong, with facilities for tennis, hockey and bowls, as well as cricket.
But as popular motoring increased, tea-shops such as The Flower Bowl, seen here, sprang up to cater for visitors and local residents alike.
Helston's Bowling Club was founded in 1760, and the green was laid in 1764.
Cannock does, however, possess one of the finest bowling greens in the country, which has been in use for nearly two hundred years.
1925 saw a part of the south green made into a bowling green, and three years later a rather rough, but functional putting- green was made next to it.
Today its shadow falls on peaceful pursuits such as a game of bowls.
Premises were amicably shared with the Bowls Club.
Just behind the memorial the flat area of ground is a bowling green, with today a fine new clubhouse just beyond.
Cattle graze the green outside the Punch Bowl Inn at Low Row in Swaledale.
