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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.

Today, the house at the bottom left corner is no more, and the grass is kept in bowling-green condition by the resident lock keeper.

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.

Meetings of another sort take place behind the hall, where there is also a bowling green.

But as popular motoring increased, tea-shops such as The Flower Bowl, seen here, sprang up to cater for visitors and local residents alike.

Withnell Fold's Sports and Social Club is still going strong, with facilities for tennis, hockey and bowls, as well as cricket.

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.

The Bandstand (foreground) once stood on the site of today's public bowling green before moving to this site near Smeaton's Tower.

Pontefract General Infirmary now overlooks the bowling green in this oasis of greenery near to the town centre.

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.

As well as indoor facilities (see R84059, above), an athletics track, tennis courts, soccer pitches and a bowling green are all available at the sports centre, which occupies a semi-rural site not far

By 1909 a splendid bowling green was a new attraction, and in 1949 new greenhouses were constructed.

Cannock does, however, possess one of the finest bowling greens in the country, which has been in use for nearly two hundred years.

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.

Premises were amicably shared with the Bowls Club. The club expanded in 1954 with the shrewd acquisition of the neighbouring Bryneithen field.

Just behind the memorial the flat area of ground is a bowling green, with today a fine new clubhouse just beyond.

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.

Yew trees lead to the church door, and inside is a Norman font with an arcaded bowl resting on four pillars.

The inn is now closed; at one time there was a bowling green nearby from which it may have taken its name. Outside stands an AA patrol van.

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.

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.

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