A step back in time of over 100 years to find a press cutting about something which has nothing to do with bowling.

No action on the greens so time to dip into the history books from the Huddersfield Examiner 33 years ago.

The first year of the BCGBA Champion-of-Champions competition as recorded by Peter Muff in 1974.

Bill Blackburn looks back at times when 400 bowlers entered into a local competition was normal.

The 2017 BCGBA Champion of Champions Semi-Final between Callum Wraight and Greg Smith. No match like you have ever seen before.

Dave Parkin adds to the 2025 story of a hat-trick winner in the Yorkshire Merit by recalling the previous three history makers.

The 20th Anniversary of this competition which was originally started in 2005 is open to bowlers that had never won an open competition.

The recent postings about the Huddersfield Merit prompted Bill Blackburn to recall how the competition was run over 40 years ago.

The final day of the 2018 Veterans League season was captured in print in the Examiner in the days when a Thursday meant it was bowling news

Ten new teams signed up to play in the 2019 Veterans League and the monthly newsletter carried the full story.

Memories from 7 years ago by looking at the August 2018 version of the HDVBA Newsletter.

I've always considered transparency and good communications as important for any League and a newsletter was a good means of doing both.

The introduction of the Federation of Crown Green Bowling was everywhere except Huddersfield. Why was that?

Ten years ago Kirklees Council paid for a full review of their sporting facilities which produced a 110-page report. Your copy is here.

Going back to 2013 and the internal fighting to save Albion BC which was always doomed to fail.

Bill Blackburn turns to reviewing the cost of joining a bowling club and asks if bowling is under-priced,

The 1975 Huddersfield Champion-of-Champions was a 15-years-old schoolboy. What a story!

The writing was on the wall for the rocky future of the Blackpool Waterloo after it all blew up in 2003.

A new rule on smoking on the green compared with how such things were viewed 24 years ago.

A gap in press records results in a detour back to the year 2000 to pick up the story of local bowling history in the new Millennium.