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Watford Town Hall

I am visiting Watford on Wednesday as my husband is playing bowls for Kent! My mother [ Barbara Whiter ( nee Neech) who was born in Watford, and who is 90 in April, and now living in Colchester, Essex. ] just happened to mention ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1940 by Sue Robinson

Watford Market

I can remember my mum taking us to Watford market, I just loved it, I was about 8 or 9, and loved looking at all the cheap jewellery, and coloured rubber balls, and toys, it had such a magical feel about it to me. Mum always had to have ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 1955

Watching Them Bowl

When I was quite young my grandfather would take me up to Ruskin Park when he went to bowl and I would sit on one of the seats, I guess to the right of this picture. Unlike the other comment I did not try to put them off - there is ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by Richard Norman

Watching Granddad Play Bowls

I was only a toddler at the time but my Granddad, who I lived with, used to take me to the park when he was going to play bowls with his friends. I used to sit in my pram and take it all in. This was during the war years.

A memory of Normanton

Wartime Evacuees

This memory is on behalf of a friend who was evacuated from London to Sidmouth in 1944. Her recollection is fairly vague but she was allocated to Brackendale, Ice House Lane which was owned by  Mrs Elizabeth, Henriatta Jane Perryman ...Read more

A memory of Sidmouth in 1944 by Michael Coupland

Warm Childhood And Teenage Years

My mum visited Southend-on-Sea during her childhood years.  She was born in 1917.  Her family made a day trip there once per year, on public transport.  They could only afford one visit per year because they ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea

Ward End Park

I can remember the boat shed in the park and where the swings used to be. There was a cafe-cum-ice cream seller in the white house and the most beautiful greenhouse full of strange plants that to a child looked very scary. Every ...Read more

A memory of Washwood Heath

War Was Tough

Having been evacuated in 1942 to High Easter from the war torn East London, staying with my Aunty Hilda was a dream that I never wanted to end. Our local school was a delight, even Sunday School at St Marys was enjoyable, and play ...Read more

A memory of High Easter in 1940 by Brian Love

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 Jessie Sichter

Wandle Park

I grew up in Lower Church Street, next to the Pitlake ph. As kids we used to play all summer long in the park. By then the boating lake had been drained and it was just a big circular ditch with the island in the middle. The river was ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1965 by Stuart Bowie

Captions

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Caption For Seaton Carew, Front Street C1965

The Silver Dollar Snack Bar (left), now called the Talk of the Town, still offers bingo, but has added a bowling alley.

Caption For Cardiff, Roath Park 1896

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.

Caption For Lincoln, Pottergate And Cathedral 1890

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.

Caption For Newquay, Trenance Gardens 1928

Here visitors could play bowls or tennis, or simply relax and enjoy the sea breezes.

Caption For Bramshott, The Village 1901

Inside are a medieval font, an 18th-century candelabra and a case containing pottery bowls found in the mortar of the tower.

Caption For Merthyr Tydfil, Recreation Ground C1955

Three tennis courts and a bowling green were added to the Thomastown Park in the inter- war years.

Caption For Stilton, High Street C1955

It is hard to believe that there is an annual cheese-rolling charity race with local teams, many in fancy dress, bowling a 'cheese' (usually a log cut and painted to represent a Stilton cheese) along this

Caption For Glemsford, Hunts Hill C1960

The telephone box on the right has gone, and the bowls green has been created behind the bungalows.

Caption For Sudbury, Market 1904

Agricultural machinery and fruit and vegetables are set out for sale in front of Frederick Bowles's milliner's and draper's.

Caption For Boldre, St John The Baptist Church C1960

The Poet Laureate Robert Southey married Caroline Bowles here, while the naturalist William Gilpin lies buried in the churchyard.

Caption For Eccles, Broadway Cinema C1955

photographed at a time when such places had fewer things to compete with for people's time and money; private car ownership was still beyond most people, television was in its infancy, and bingo halls, bowling

Caption For Exmouth, The Seafront 1918

This is one of Exmouth's two bowling greens - the other is at the back of the town at Phear Park.

Caption For Lincoln, Pottergate And Cathedral 1890

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.

Caption For Knowle, Warwick Road C1965

It was a popular meeting place, with a bowling green and a quoits club.

Caption For Stourbridge, Market Street C1965

Notice the sign for the car park for the Bell Hotel (left) - the car park sits on what was once advertised as 'the finest and best kept bowling green in the Midlands'.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Pier C1962

Ten-Pin Bowling is played in the new pavilion.

Caption For Margate, Clifton Baths Promenade 1897

In the centre is the white façade of the Cliftonville Hotel, where now stand Thorley's public house and a bowling alley.

Caption For Southend On Sea, The Pier C1955

Ten-Pin Bowling is played in the new pavilion.

Caption For Stevenage, High Street And Green 1899

A picturesque collection of cottages and shops line the spacious main street of this Georgian coaching town, as we look towards the triangular Bowling Green, while the photographer's activities attract

Caption For Arundel, The Black Rabbit 1898

It served riverside traffic - initially boatmen, and later excursionists from Arundel to Littlehampton; they came in large numbers to view Arundel Castle and to enjoy dancing, bowls, croquet and the tea

Caption For St Audries, School 1903

St Audries occupies a natural bowl looking out over the sea above the cliffs of St Audries Bay.

Caption For Rochdale, Entrance To Broadfield Park C1955

The park`s first bowling green was opened on 1 July 1908 and the second in 1927.

Caption For Ashford, Station Road C1950

Up the road on the right beyond the pub now stand Crouch's garage, the Royal Mail Sorting Office, Kent House and the Ashford bowling alley.

Caption For Glen Wyllin, Viaduct 1895

The glen was purchased by the IOMR in the 1930s, who added a boating lake, bowling greens and children's play area.