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Some Club History
Club 2025 Season
Captain Presidents Day - 2025
Playing Members Captain Presidents Day - Photo Brian Archbold
Before play as is traditional a spider was held with the winner delivering a single bowl nearest the spider winning
a bottle of wine.
For the main afternoon event playing members were split into two triples teams representing either the club Captain
or President. Teams were then allocated one of three rinks and after 4 ends the Captains triples players moved up to
the next rink and another 4 ends played. The total number of ends played during the afternoon by each team being 16.
The final result was the Captain teams winning by a total points count of 62 againt 40 for the President's team.
As is in previous years, a Fish & Chips supper and tea was welcomed. To complete a very enjoyable afternoon and
the last use of the club green this season our Captain Paul Spiegel who organised the event generously offered
drinks from the bar to members and guests.
Club 2024 Season
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Judy our Vice Captain giving basic bowls instruction to a u3a group
A FIXTURE HIGHLIGHT
| A hightlight in our 2024 fixture progamme was an invitation from Holloway Hill BC to join them in their centenary celebrations. We were one of clubs that played them 100 years ago. Our triple consisted of our Captain Paul, Vice Captain Judy supported by Steve. This was a fun afternoon starting with a welcome glass of Pimms before playing a series of 4 ends with different teams. The results were announced after enjoying a delicious tea and our team WON and we were each given an engraved shot glass. |
Club Annual Lunch 2023
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Club Competition Finals - August 2023
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Some photos taken at our 2023 Bowls Open Day
Visit from Our Sponsors Youth Group
On a late Summer afternoon we hosted the Den Youth Group from our sponsor the
Parish of Haslemere St Bartholomew’s and St Christophers to our club green as an
basic introduction to Lawn Bowls” experience. We all had an enjoyable time and it was amazing
how children aged from about 5yrs old to about 14years quickly demonstrated they could
master the basics of delivering a bowl to the Jack.
Visit from Our Sponsors Leightons
At a Roll-Up afternoon last season we had an interesting visit from Lynda Skeldon (Branch Manager) and Stuart Roberts from our local Opticians and Hearing care branch. They have since reported that it's always a pleasure to come and visit and had enjoyed watching the bowls.They had set up a small stand inside our pavilion to be available to advise and answer any members' questions. Members had fun wearing the huge frames as demonstrated by the photographs below.
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SOME CLUB HISTORY
The Victory Cup Trophy
It is known that the club was founded in 1911 now some 110 years ago. The Victory Cup for
presentation to the winner of the Men's Single competition appears to have been introduced
shortly after the club moved to its location at the Haslemere Recreation Ground site in 1921.
This is evident as the first name engraved is that of F White as winner in 1922.
The Victoria cup is the oldest trophy in the club’s current trophy collection and therefore
also the most valuable to the club. There is no documentary evidence but it would appear
that the cup whose full title Victoria Cup 1919 was also introduced in memory of those who
served in the First World War. Of the nearly 100 member engravings it is significant that
only member’s names engraved on the cup itself are the men’s singles competitions winners
over the Second World War period and perhaps appropriate to the cup’s name.
A full record of the cup engraving can be viewed in a pdf table obtained by clicking on
the cup image. Over the cups 100 years existence there are only 7 years without engraved names
where it is assumed the men’s singles competition couldn’t be held. Of course, last year’s
competition was not possible due to Covid but apart from this problem the competition has
been held continuously since 1964. Alan Marchant has clearly been the most successful club
bowler having won no less than 16 times, more recently John Greenfield, Robert Uffold and
Richard Willey have been the more successful bowlers having won three times.
Haslemere Recreation Ground and Occupation by the Haslemere Bowling Club
On 9th March 1920 a letter was received by the Haslemere Urban District Council from
Sir Algernon Nethuen, executor and trustee of the estate of the late Sir John Hutchinson
offering land known as Water Tower Field as a gift to the Town for recreational use and
as a memorial to the men of the town who served in the Great War. The land was offered
to the Town as a free gift and free from all restrictions.
Early proposals discussed by the Council regarding the use of the ground included proposals
for the provision of a bungalow, store, a general pavilion, ladies dressing room and
Tool Shed. The Council were concerned that the Recreation Ground should be properly managed
and a groundsman took occupation of the bungalow. By October 1921 our bowling club moved
to the recreation ground and work begun to lay a bowling green, its final seeding taking
place in April of that year.
The first pavilion for the bowls club was very rudimentary and an improved pavilion was
erected by club members in the seventies using material salvaged from prefabs near
Woolmer Hill. This was further improved by our current pavilion from plans produced by
the then club president and built in 1994 (see details in Peter's article which can be
accessed by clicking on the photograph below). Photographs taken during the dismantling of
the second member constructed pavilion and construction of the current pavilion are shown below.
Old Club House Being Dismantled
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New Pavilion Construction Phase
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New Pavilion Completed in 1994
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