Many of the Internal Competition matches have had a very close score line with a few surprising results. Finals day, which was played on Saturday 1st September with a start time of 10am.There was heavy dew on the green, with the green team (Tuesday Club) on hand the green was brushed twice prior to the […]
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June Update 2016
It was certainly not sunny June. The weather this month has not been at all helpful to outdoor bowling. The Tuesday club working party has struggled to keep the green playable given that so much rain has fallen this month. Inevitably it has led to quite a few cancellations – in fact 6 games out […]
The 21st Alf Sayers Memorial Trophy 2016
As a nation we spend so much time checking on the weather forecast particularly when anyone is organising an outdoor event. We followed the same routine ahead of this year’s major fund raising event, given the very poor weather this summer.It was dry and warm when the green was prepared on the Saturday and all […]
First Game of 2016
What a start to the season!!!!! Having waited all winter (which seems to last forever) we keenly stepped on to the green for our first game of the season last Thursday evening. It was a chilly to start but with but soon became very cold. Although we would normally play 21 ends it was agreed […]
Alf Sayers Memorial Trophy 2015
The organisers consulted the weather forecast more times than they can remember in the days leading up to this fundraising event. The games started at 10am but rain was forecast to start at around 11am and just before that time the rain arrived and stayed with us, as on/off drizzle all day. However it was […]
Royal Household B.C. 2015
The Club is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. After 2 years of planning by Maurice Robinson most of the club and 5 spectators left Nutley on Sunday 21 June just after 9am for a special celebration game in Windsor Great Park, within sight of Windsor Castle, against the Royal Household Bowling Club.We arrived in Windsor […]
100th Anniversary
We are really excited at the prospect this year of celebrating 100 years of the Nutley Bowling Club.An article in the Sussex Agricultural Express dated 27 August 1915 reports on a match between Nutley and Uckfield. The home team were described as novices.We are a small club, privately funded and run by its members, situated […]
Captain’s Day 2014
Organising the day got a little easier when it was known that 6 male and 6 female players had agreed to partake in this annual event.With this “mix” of members it was relatively easy to draw lots to sort out mixed pairs (always making sure husbands and wives were not drawn together).We played 4 games […]