The Yorkshire Juniors team of 2000 contains many names very prominent in today's top competitions and some that have disappeared altogether.

The last 7 Yorkshiremen to win the BCGBA Merit title gathered to celebrate the latest addition to that exclusive club 21 years ago.

The New Year in 2001 was opened with the news of a loss of the major BCGBA sponsor and a new Lancashire sponsor for the Yorkshire Merit.

Another dip back in time as we reprint an article from The Examiner of November 2001 which will bring back memories for many local bowlers.

More memories from 21 years ago as The Examiner of 6 May 2000 looks at the build-up to the 2000 Subscription Cup and County team season.

21 Years ago bowling namecheck - Hirst, Sigsworth, Sykes, Schofield, Ingleby, Howe, Pollard, Crowther all featured in our step back in time.

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.

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...

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?

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.

A story of the prestigious Huddersfield Ben Shaws Handicap as reported by Peter Muff in the September 1981 issue of Bowlers World.

Crown green bowling is still very much a man's world but that didn't stop Peter Muff from being mischievous by suggesting a change.

Huddersfield Examiner press cuttings from 1998 reporting on four of the local prestigious individual competitions.

The bowling green at Crosland Moor was expected to be sold in 1998 as part of the sale of Crosland Moor Liberal Club and then closed down.

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.