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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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 ...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 ...Read more
A memory of Longton 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
Welfare Park From 1969 To 1977
My Dad was head groundsman from 1969 to 1977, so we lived in the bungalow in the park. I have fond memories of the the start of the bowls and putt season from good Friday. We had a pleasant view from our ...Read more
A memory of Blackhall Colliery by
The Salford Girl 3
My maternal grandmother, born in 1885 in Salford, as a girl worked in the mills. Up to the time of her death in Ladywell hospital, at the age of 93, she always wore long clothes to her ankles and a woollen, thick shawl. When gran ...Read more
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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 ...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
Boyhood
I was born in 1922 in Mundford where my Father was the village policeman. We had no motor car, indeed in those days there were not many people who could afford this luxury. The village was small, however it was self-contained and provided ...Read more
A memory of Mundford in 1920 by
Buy My Lily Of The Valley.
On one day of the year, through the forties and probably the fifties, my grandmother Ethel Glazier, would pick all the lily of the valley she had, in a square bed about three foot square, in her back garden in Rowledge. She ...Read more
A memory of Farnham in 1941 by
St. George's School, Flower Lane, Mill Hill, London, Nw7.
I too was a pupil at St. George's, probably from 1944 to certainly no later than 1950 when I was shipped off to a boarding school in Sussex where I remained until leaving at age 17 in 1956. I was ...Read more
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Captions
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The bowling greens here in Bolton Road are just one example.
The building to the left is the rear of the China Bowl, which fronts onto the market place near the main entrance to the church, where once the stocks and whipping post stood.
Cannock does, however, possess one of the finest bowling greens in the country, which has been in use for nearly two hundred years.
The remarkable 173ft- long church stands to the right, but it is partly obscured from view today by a high wire fence covered with foliage which encloses a putting and bowling green.
It was a popular meeting place, with a bowling green and a quoits club.
The Exel Bowling Lanes replaced it and live entertainment moved to the end of the pier.
By now, The Red Lion (C69062) is replaced by the new block displaying the Betabake fascia beside the Salad Bowl fruit shop, with the Louis Francke ladies' hairdressing salon on the first floor, while
conditions are not only attractive to visitors, but also to those who have chosen to live in the coastal towns of Sussex following their retirement, some of whom can be seen enjoying a competitive game of bowls
The parish boundaries meet here with those of Myerscough and Barton; indeed, one boundary cuts through the Roebuck's bowling green.
The bowling green and tennis courts are beyond the café building (centre).
The public swimming baths, the Pavilion Theatre and an indoor bowling green showed the town's commitment to being an all-the-year-round resort.
Bowling greens, tennis courts, concert shows and walks were provided for those too nervous to dip a toe in to the cool waters of the English Channel.
A ladies' bowls match is in progress in the peaceful setting of Zetland Park, at the start of the Coast Road to Marske.
The genteel sport of bowls was a favourite Edwardian pastime, although the all-white dress code seen on the greens today had yet to be introduced.
The Punch Bowl has been altered and restored and turned into a restaurant since this photograph was taken.
Good Friday and Easter Monday would see a miniature fair—stalls for refreshments, model yacht racing on the reservoir, rowing boats for hire, bowls and so on.
The churchyard contains the tomb of Caroline Bowles, the second wife of the poet Robert Southey.
Situated west of the Concert Bowl, the rose gardens were laid out in the late 1920s-early 1930s on the site of a former maze.
Visible just behind Drake's Statue is the corner of the bowling green.
The Punch Bowl Inn (left) is central to the village; this is where the Surrey Union Hunt meets on Boxing Day.
Inside are a medieval font, an 18th-century candelabra and a case containing pottery bowls found in the mortar of the tower.
Situated at the west of end of St Peter's Street, this fine Regency terrace was constructed between 1827 and 1831 on the site of the bowling green to provide houses for 20 middle-class families.
Following Newark's surrender, the Parliamentarians smashed the bowl of the 15th-century font in St Mary's; it was eventually replaced around 1660.
It was opened in 1929, and included hard tennis courts, bowling greens and a putting green.
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