The Collection
A small collection of Lawn & Crown Green Bowls items has been put on display at The E.A. Clare & Son Ltd. building in Liverpool. It includes examples of bowls from different manufacturers. Old Bowls boxes and accessories such as bowls measures and bowls grip waxes etc. There is even a flag signed by the…
Indoor Rink Width
I wrote an article sometime ago about the bias on bowls, which also covered the testing of same. Bowlers will now all be aware that after many years World Bowls Limited together with the manufactures and testers have introduced (2002) a new “Working Reference Bowl (WRB)” in conjunction with the standardisation
Shortmat Bowls
Short Mat bowls is not the recent phenomenon, that many of you may think it is. Don Durham of Arnold Wyer tells me that they were selling felt carpets for short mat back in the 1950’s. In fact there was quite a strong following in the North Staffordshire area and the first President of the E.S.M.B.A.., Mr. G. Dicks was greatly involved in that re
Bias Carpet Bowls
There does seem to be a slight Northern – Southern hemisphere divide when it come to the size of the bowls used for this game. However the entry shown below from a 1935 Bowls catalogue seems to suggest that ‘Miniature Bowls for indoor bowling on small rinks’ were made to 3 15/16 inches. That this game was popular in New Ze
Gold Coast 2018 XXI Commonwealth Games
Peter Clare (M.D. Of Drakes Pride) was fortunate in being able to attend the bowls competition at the Broadbeach Bowls Club, Gold Coast, Australia during the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Great venue, great sport, great supporters and great volunteers and officials.
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