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.