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The Silver Dollar Snack Bar (left), now called the Talk of the Town, still offers bingo, but has added a bowling alley.

In the distance the encroaching modern era is further evident by the tennis courts and bowling green - both installed around the time of the First World War.

This monastic cell of St Mary's Abbey in York, of which the chancel remains, is now in a municipal park and is surrounded by a bowling green and fenced football pitch.

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

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.

Three tennis courts and a bowling green were added to the Thomastown Park in the inter- war years.

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

Notice the sign for the car park for the Bell Hotel (left) - the car park sits on what was once advertised as 'the finest and best kept bowling green in the Midlands'.

The telephone box on the right has gone, and the bowls green has been created behind the bungalows.

Agricultural machinery and fruit and vegetables are set out for sale in front of Frederick Bowles's milliner's and draper's.

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

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

This is one of Exmouth's two bowling greens - the other is at the back of the town at Phear Park. The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.

This monastic cell of St Mary’s Abbey in York, of which the chancel remains, is now in a municipal park and is surrounded by a bowling green and fenced football pitch.

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 park`s first bowling green was opened on 1 July 1908 and the second in 1927.

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.

In the centre is the white façade of the Cliftonville Hotel, where now stand Thorley's public house and a bowling alley.

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.

A picturesque collection of cottages and shops line the spacious main street of this Georgian coaching town, as we look towards the triangular Bowling Green, while the photographer's activities attract

It served riverside traffic - initially boatmen, and later excursionists from Arundel to Littlehampton; they came in large numbers to view Arundel Castle and to enjoy dancing, bowls, croquet and the tea

St Audries occupies a natural bowl looking out over the sea above the cliffs of St Audries Bay. The main A39 skirts its southern edge, and you can catch a glimpse of it from the drive.

Up the road on the right beyond the pub now stand Crouch's garage, the Royal Mail Sorting Office, Kent House and the Ashford bowling alley.

The glen was purchased by the IOMR in the 1930s, who added a boating lake, bowling greens and children's play area.