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The parish boundaries meet here with those of Myerscough and Barton; indeed, one boundary cuts through the Roebuck's bowling green.

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

It was a popular meeting place, with a bowling green and a quoits club. Its close neighbour, The Red Lion, is just visible on the left of this scene.

Here, only a peddler's humble donkey waits to cross from the Bowling Green towards the gable end of the Tudor Alleyn's School.

Visible just behind Drake's Statue is the corner of the bowling green. The terrace behind is also gone; the Register Office now stands on the site.

The bowling greens here in Bolton Road are just one example.

There seems to be some dispute as these players pose on the bowling green, while a small audience of no doubt critical ladies watches close to them.

Here visitors could play bowls or tennis, or simply relax and enjoy the sea breezes. In the background a train crosses the lofty viaduct headed for the town station.

This rose garden was the site of Hawhill Park's first bowling green.

Visitors paid an entrance fee, the entertainments were free: tennis, quoits, bowling, croquet, hobby horses, swings, and brass band concerts.

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

The bowling green and tennis courts are beyond the café building (centre). The line of skiffs and rowing boats indicates the popularity of such a holiday pastime.

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

The churchyard contains the tomb of Caroline Bowles, the second wife of the poet Robert Southey. She lived virtually all her life in a nearby cottage, and was a poet in her own right.

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.

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.

At the sale of Frank Day's estates, the Priory garden was acquired by St Neots & District Recreation Club Company and developed for various sports, especially bowls which gained great popularity

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 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.

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

It was a popular meeting place, with a bowling green and a quoits club. Its close neighbour, The Red Lion, is just visible on the left of this scene.

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