The Division 1 fixtures at Milnsbridge were all postponed yesterday but there was bowling for the Division 2 sides at Springwood.

The final day of this just for fun competition. Name 5 more greens as viewed from the air. All the answers on Friday.

Bowling (all versions) are staging a promotion to encourage new bowlers to try out the game on Spring Bank Holiday weekend 2022. Participate

Five more greens to identify from ariel photographs. Four are local, one isn't. Five more online tomorrow. Answers online on Friday.

Nick Beswick bowls for Springwood in the Winter League and plays table tennis for England in Berlin in an international competition.

We have not used the website before to trade bowling merchandise but there is always a first time for anything.

The Blackpool Waterloo had its own rulebook which included the cutting of a straw to determine a close end. Major change was afoot in 1988.

Shepley bowler Dave Erving has a letter about crown green bowling published in The Guardian.

Bowling Memories Part 5 of 5: A new playing format and new League structure appeases clubs The 5th and final episode in this series of...

What are our sport's ruling bodies doing about the massively reduced number of bowlers, teams and clubs? Absolutely nothing. Apathy rules OK

One of the big demands of the rebels pushing to form a breakaway Saturday League was to revert to Home & Away legs in the fixture programme.

Is there anything better than bowling on a sunny day? The guaranteed sunshine on the Portugese Algarve had become an annual event by 2003.

So what are the real reasons behind the unrest of teams who were leading the move to form a new breakaway Saturday League in 1983?

Revisiting the number of bowlers used by each of our 27 teams and also updating the record about there being no drawn matches at Milnsbridge

The threat of a move to form a new Saturday League in Huddersfield galvanised the current League into action.

The dubious honour of being given the title of worst green in the League was awarded at the end of the 1988 bowling season.

A move to form a new Saturday League in Huddersfield and not be constrained by Yorkshire CCGBA rules was first mooted in 1983.

This is the story of the closure of a local bowling green when the sport was at its peak and under no pressure to put it to any other use.

Stay legal by ensuring your club competition jacks are tested and date stamped every 7 years. Now is the time to get that work completed.

Recall from 1984 when local crown green bowlers went to Stockport to play the top short mat and flat green bowlers in a new rich competition