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They also made other sports equipment such as golf clubs and bowls.

Ten-Pin Bowling is played in the new pavilion. Pleated skirts, of the type worn by the two young ladies at the front of the picture, were fashionable at this time.

Further ahead there is a crossroads: turn left to the Rose Bowl cricket ground and Botley, and go straight ahead for Hamble.

Tennis courts and bowling greens and other sports facilities, which were funded by Chigwell Urban District, were made available for local people.

Sited imperiously overlooking the bowling green is the fine Victorian residence Merevale; its foundation stone is dated 7 September 1893.

Bowls is a quintessentially English sporting activity, and it appealed to the founder of the project.

Parish boundaries cross and re-cross with those of Myerscough and Barton - one boundary cuts through the bowling green of the Roebuck Inn, as it was known in earlier days.

The bowling green, which we see here in the foreground, still survives.

The Sugar Bowl stands south of the junction with Reigate Road, on the east side of the road.

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green. This is a marvellous asset for the community.

Situated behind the Palais de Dance, off Humberstone Gate, and incorporating an early supermarket and ten pin bowling facility, the six levels of Lee Circle car park were intended to relieve the city

The Old Gang Mine, one of the area's oldest workings, is just a few miles from here, and miners would have trekked daily to enjoy the warmth and hospitality of the Punch Bowl Inn, which was built in 1638

The park caters for cricket, tennis, and bowls, and it has a putting green. This is a marvellous asset for the community.

It then became a ten pin bowling alley through the 'swinging sixties', and then a bingo hall.

Bowling's the ironmongers moved to Grove Road in the 1920s, and their shop became a branch of the Midland Bank. This has since been converted to a pub called 'The Old Bank'.

Besides the usual bar and bowling green, it boasted a library and reading room, and in the room above was Alderley`s first cinema.

There were two bowling greens and two children's playgrounds. The picture shows three buildings — the central one, a shelter, is still with us.

The massive mill on the right, part of the Bowling Green complex, still stands, and is now used by Damart.

This view is taken looking south towards Oving from Bowling Alley's junction with the North Marston to Whitchurch Road.

It was a sheep-cropped sward well into the 1920s, but the Council then covered it in bowling greens, high hedges and municipal gardens. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago

Part of it was used as a rubbish tip, but landscaping began in 1905 with the laying out of the first bowling green.

The Lake Hotel had opened in 1872 with a floating landing stage, a subaqueous telegraph linking it to the booking office for ferry steamers, a skating rink, a bowling green and well laid-out

Over-arm bowling arrived officially in 1864, and the first Test Match was played in Australia in 1877.

All that now remains of the huge structure, apart from the surrounding earthworks, are the broken ruins of the 12th-century flint and mortar curtain walls within the bailey, which encompass a bowling