Places
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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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Way Back Then.
lived in margate from approx. 1945 to 1952. There was a pier with a life boat station halfway up.Took a trip on the lifeboat, public once year, and was really seasick. There was also the Pavilion, close by was a 'pillbox' a wartime concrete ...Read more
A memory of Margate
Starting Work
I began my working life as a junior clerk at the Wood Green Branch of the National Provincial Bank in September 1949. my starting pay was £2.13.6d a week. In those days we used dip in pens and bank statements were typed on a typewriter, ...Read more
A memory of Wood Green
Myrtle Street
i was brought up in myrtle street all during the war ...i remember the Tivoli picture house, i well remember the life we lived ...so poor but a real community spirit...our doctor was Dr. Black, up Lapage St. we first went to Bowling Back ...Read more
A memory of Bradford
How I Knew Frimley Green
where I live now since 1968 there used to be farm there was cattle over the hatches . signal box just near the railway at the hatches. 4 sweet shops. Ansell newsagent -Mons-shop -spar shop- spare parts shop used to be ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green
From The Corners Of My Mind
Born 1955,lived in princes road,so many happy memories of growing up there....the "Olympic stores"nose pressed against the glass looking at all the things we could'nt afford,playing football and being chased off the ...Read more
A memory of Ellesmere Port by
Farnborough Up Date
well Farnborough how I knew it and now to this date. tumbledown dick has changed over the years it has now been changed to fast food area. many shops have gone rent prices gone up. bowling arena coming soon and new ...Read more
A memory of Farnborough
Dunmurry In The 60s & 70s
I lived in dunmurry for 16 years from 1960 until 1976 the things that i remember in the village were the two barber shops the first one was beside jack norths sweet shop on the bridge where as a young boy i remember being left in ...Read more
A memory of Dunmurry by
Childhood
My maternal grandparents lived at The Beeches, 16 Clarendon Road and my parents and I lived with them for my first three years and then returned regularly for holidays for several years. I remember Worthington Park and always having to sit on ...Read more
A memory of Sale by
Born
born 63 Hargate lane which is now gone and fire station there went to the Hargate chapel for Sunday school my father played bowls at the blood tub in Hargate lane
A memory of West Bromwich by
Before They Put Numbers On The Years!
Gosh, I am so old, I remember the time that the trams (696 and 698) were changed for electric trolley buses of the same numbers. Does anyone but me remember the horse trough beside the clock tower?. before the war ...Read more
A memory of Bexleyheath by
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Once there had been a bowling green near the town centre, commemorated by Bowling Green Road.
Once there had been a bowling green near the town centre, commemorated by Bowling Green Road.
The Bowling Green 1906 The grass of this bowling green seems remarkably long compared with modern ones.
At 6.00pm on August Bank Holiday Monday 1908, Romilly Park Bowling Club's green opened for play.
The Concert Bowl Open-Air Theatre The Art Deco Concert Bowl is situated in a valley that was the former main quarry area.
It featured a paddling pool, tennis courts, a pitch and putt course and a bowling green, where Lord Stanley bowled the first wood.
This bowling green is close to the sea.
Notice the wooden flooring – when the house was still privately-owned this room was built as a bowling alley and the floor was specially laid as the bowling lane.
Bowls has long been a popular game in Lancashire, and there is considerable rivalry between the many clubs of its towns, villages and pubs.
Notice the wooden flooring – when the house was still privately-owned this room was built as a bowling alley and the floor was specially laid as the bowling lane.
From the elevated position of the bowling green there is a panoramic view overlooking Hirwaun, encompassing rural scenery and industry.
A measure is being used to decide which of the bowls lies nearest to the jack.
The bowling green was an instant success.
Among the facilities offered by the hotel were a quoits bed and bowling green.
In 1949, the question of having a bowling green in the Public Gardens was raised with the Urban District Council, but it felt that it was not the right moment.
Looking across the bowling green, we can see the Publix Cinema.
The Bowl Inn, when Georges' Beers was still a family run brewery.
The earliest mention of a church in Sandy is in the institution rolls of Bishop Hugh of Wells (c1214), and the font bowl in the south aisle is thought to date from Saxon times.
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.
One hundred feet above sea level, and with commanding views of the Sound and the English Channel, the Hoe is where Sir Francis Drake is reputed to have played his famous game of bowls while waiting for
The Victorian poet Coventry Patmore lies buried in the churchyard, as is Caroline Bowles, the second wife of the Poet Laureate Robert Southey.
Not far away, bowling greens and tennis courts were laid out, and a 600-seat theatre was built.
The Sugar Bowl with its colourful decorations is seen from the opposite side of a narrow- looking Brighton Road.
was completed during the 16th century by Sir Richard Blount for his Catholic family, while further upstream is Hardwick House, a gabled Tudor mansion where Elizabeth I stayed and Charles I played bowls
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