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Helston's Bowling Club was founded in 1760, and the green was laid in 1764.

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

The bowling pavilion on the right, and some of the local housing is in the background.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.