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- Bowling, Strathclyde
- Bowling, Yorkshire
- Bowling Green, Shropshire
- Bowling Green, Gloucestershire
- West Bowling, Yorkshire
- Bowling Alley, Hampshire
- Bowling Bank, Clwyd
- Bowling Green, Hampshire
- Bowling Green, West Midlands
- Bowling Green, Cornwall (near St Austell)
- Bowling Green, Hereford & Worcester
- Bowling Green, Cornwall (near Callington)
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Memories
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War Time In Holcombe Rogus
Hi everyone. I lived in Holcombe Rogus during the war years. My Father Leeming Greaves and Kathleen Korner had leased the Prince Of Wales Hotel. My brother Joseph and I attended the local School, I was 9 years old at ...Read more
A memory of Holcombe Rogus in 1942 by
Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean
THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more
A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by
My Time In North Finchley
During the 2nd WW, my dad signed up with the Belgian section of the Royal Navy. On leave, he met up with my mum and married her in Christchurch in 1944. I came along in 1945. After the war my dad returned to Belgium, ...Read more
A memory of North Finchley in 1953 by
A View From The Band Stand
I was born in 1965, the year the photo was taken and at the time my dad was a gardener at Parc Howard. I remember going to visit him almost every day, in the summer months, with either my grandmother or mother. This was a ...Read more
A memory of Llanelli in 1968 by
The Visitation Convent Bridport Dorset.
For unruly behaviour, I was delivered to boarding school at the age of 4, after enjoying wonderful times on a Devon farm. I was taken to the Convent by my parents in an Austin 7. I remember crying and staring at ...Read more
A memory of Bridport in 1948 by
Sugar Bowl Carefree Time Of My Life.
I learnt to swim in the pool at the Sugar Bowl. My dad worked here as a part time gardener/odd job man.There was a Spanish chef working here in the late 50s who showed me how to pick up a Lobster properly he was ...Read more
A memory of Burgh Heath by
Northolt Childrens Home
I wonder if anyone knows of a childrens home in Northolt. It was around 1958ish my brother's and I were put in the home, it was run by a lady I knew as Auntie Rea. My eldest brother, Edwin, was too old to reside in the same ...Read more
A memory of Northolt in 1958 by
My Early Years In Longton 1870s To 1940s
I was born in Longton in 1933 at 151 High Street Post Office, Longton. All my childhood was spent there with my grandmother, Sarah Wright and my great aunt Matilda Ward (my grandmother's sister). Between them ...Read more
A memory of Longton by
Canian Woods
I shouldn't say as I think where we played in the woods is private property and as been split from the old bowling green and tennis courts with a main road but we called it the canian woods where we would make a rope swing which swung out ...Read more
A memory of Strelley by
My Most Memorable Corner
I lived at Corbieton Cottage for 22 years between 1939 & 1961 and this is the view I saw as I came down the hill to go to school, to Sunday school, to Scouts, to the Kirk, to the pub, the Hall, the bowling, the ...Read more
A memory of Haugh of Urr by
Captions
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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.
The village bus is setting off for Looe outside the famous Punch Bowl Inn, which is said to have been used for the distribution of goods by smugglers.
Meetings of another sort take place behind the hall, where there is also a bowling green.
Below Plymouth Hoe, where legend tells us that Sir Francis Drake played that famous game of bowls, is a promenade for strolling or lounging on deckchairs.
Below Plymouth Hoe, where legend tells us that Sir Francis Drake played that famous game of bowls, is a promenade for strolling or lounging on deckchairs.
Here, only a peddler's humble donkey waits to cross from the Bowling Green towards the gable end of the Tudor Alleyn's School.
By 1909 a splendid bowling green was a new attraction, and in 1949 new greenhouses were constructed.
Perhaps the climb is worth it for another reason: the view over handsome Georgian streets and the vast green bowl of hills around the town.
The bowling greens here in Bolton Road are just one example.
Visitors paid an entrance fee, the entertainments were free: tennis, quoits, bowling, croquet, hobby horses, swings, and brass band concerts.
This rose garden was the site of Hawhill Park's first bowling green.
There seems to be some dispute as these players pose on the bowling green, while a small audience of no doubt critical ladies watches close to them.
Yew trees lead to the church door, and inside is a Norman font with an arcaded bowl resting on four pillars.
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