Category: Club News

I have to say the members of Salisbury Bowling Club know how to party……..!

They party inside with their sanding, filling and painting.

They continue down the corridor and party in the kitchen and the toilets with their cloths, rollers and soapy water.

They continue outside and party round the green pulling up weeds etc and putting rink liners back in place.

Not done with with that, they party round the green with benches and seating and table and teak oil.

As if that wasn’t enough they dance round the place with jet washes, up the walls, along the gutters and down on the ground with all kind of attachments.

Occasionally it all got too much so they rested and had a cup of Tea / Coffee courtesy of Romney.

A big thank you to all who turned up today from early doors throughout the morning to enable the green to be set up ready for play this afternoon – you know who you were, so no name to name check you.

However, two people do need a special mention Paul Mortimer and Geoff Bull for the sterling work on the interior on the clubhouse.

As the Chinese proverb goes ‘many hands make light work’ and today showed how much can be achieved.

Salisbury Comms

Members of Salisbury Bowling Club will be interested to learn that Romney Denning, who has been playing in occasional ‘friendly’ matches for Disability Bowls England, has been invited to the DBE Indoor High Performance Squad trials in Northamptonshire on 14th January.

We wish him every success.

John Hurle

We wish Fraser and Jamie all the best for the finals of the Mens 2Wd competition at Devizes this weekend
We also wish the SBC team every success in the Tourist Trophy at Devizes this afternoon at 1:00pm

Salisbury & District Mens Finals

Singles Championship
Nick Revell (Salisbury BC) won against Michael Mundy (Pewsey Vale BC) by 21-18.
The match could have gone either way and indeed Michael was ahead for a long period. Nick played very well, and finally won though, the decisive shot being Michael sending the jack back to Nick’s bowls for him to have twenty-one shots.

Pairs
Toby Fiddy & James Vincent (Salisbury BC) won against Barry Andrews & Gerry Ward (Pewsey Vale BC) by 23-22.
This was another match where Pewsey led most of the time, only to succumb in the twenty-first end when James trailed the jack for two shots.
A small but enthusiastic crowd saw two extremely fine matches, both closely fought.

Triples
Two triples from Salisbury BC competed in a match was played at Salisbury.
Nick Revell, Fraser Boynton and Tom Warner won against Toby Fiddy, Graham Annetts and James Vincent by 21-12,.
A match of outstanding bowling.

The past five years have “flown” by, but the time has come for this to be my final quirky report. I would like to pay tribute to everyone who has supported our team since I became captain, the unseen heroes and heroines that are the glue that make it all work. Volunteers who step forward to manicure the green, maintain the buildings and organise the communications (including the website and fixtures). Not forgetting those who helped with the bar, raffle, kitchen, cleaning and even the human scarecrows, my deepest thanks to you all. Lastly to the amazing multitude of bowlers who have given their all for us, culminating in reaching our zenith by winning the league and becoming this year’s Westbrook Champions.

It has been an honour and privilege.

Malc.

A great day enjoyed by all – a very laid back and relaxing time – great food, good company and entertaining bowling.

We raised approx £200 on the day for the club funds.

Winners Jim & Steve.

Frank & Valerie