Campbeltown Bowling Club
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The Facebook page of Campbeltown Bowling Club to help members and friends around the world keep up to date with the Club's activities. The origins of Campbeltown Bowling Club are shrouded in the mists of history but it is safe to assume that the club was born out of the town’s senior bowling club, the Argyll.
The first recorded meeting was held in the town hall committee room on 10th August 1905 when it was reported that some members of the Argyll club had canvassed the opinions of 100 local gentlemen for their opinions on forming a new club in the town. 72 had replied with 62 in favour, 5 against and 5 undecided. The chairman, Provost Mitchell, heard Ross Wallace explain that he, along with Sam Armour, Neil Watson, James Carson and Robert Smith had met with Alfred Lewis, chamberlain to the Duke of Argyll to try to identify suitable sites for the new green. His Grace, the Duke, was prepared to lease the ground and the lodge house at Stronvaar to the new club for nineteen years at an annual rental of £10. Wallace had concluded that an initial membership of 100 would be easily attainable and sustainable and recommended the formation of the club. He had gone so far as to contact the Scottish Bowling Association for their recommendation of a person to lay a new green and had been advised that Daniel Leslie of Bishopbriggs was the best available. Leslie visited the site and found it to be favourable and he quoted a price of around £380 with another £120 required to convert the outhouses into a bowls house, making a grand total of £500, eat your heart out Holyrood!
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facebook.comA great final this afternoon in the Mac's Taxis sponsored two bowl pairs that saw Johnie McLean and Neil McCormick beat John McCormick and Steven Dickson with a trailed jack in an extra end. Many thanks to our new sponsors of the event Archie and Angela Mathieson.
Those of you who read my history of the club in the centenary programme are probably aware that the club was founded and funded with the issue of 100 shares costing £5 each and that the only one that I was aware of was in the possesion of Past President Cecil Finn OBE. This morning, for the first time in many years, I saw it again when I had the pleasure of witnessing its assignation to Cecil's son Tommy. Cecil has kindly given me a copy that I am happy to share.
The two bowl pairs start at 10.00am on Sunday. Stacy, Alec has a 10.30 start.
Congratulations to everyone who played in the semi-finals and final of the Alasdair Blair sponsored Doon the Water pairs in those conditions tonight. I just hope that no one needs Alisdair's services after playing in the amount of rain that fell although it has to be said, the green held up well and played beautifully. The worthy winners were Neil McCormick (there's one for you Sid) and Catherine McEachran who beat Alan Sinclair (Argyll) and Steven Tolmie. Thanks as always to Alasdair and Kenny Blair and family for their very generous sponsorship.
What a beautiful night for the start of the Doon the Water pairs and I think that will be as good as it gets. The weather experts in the club tonight are predicting doom and gloom for the rest of the week with tomorrow night particularly bad. Hopefully the Kintyre micro climate will swing in to action again and we'll miss the worst of it.
What a difference a day makes and it was sunshine all the way for the Jim Stewart memorial triples that was won by President Gavin McLachlan with Gordon Graham of the Argyll club and Maureen MacInnes who beat Alex Black, George Allan and Simon Rochford in the final. Our thanks to Jim's daughter Magaret Wilson for sponsoring the event and for presenting the trophy and prizes.
The very happy winners have arrived back and are more than willing to go back out in the rain for a photo (or two).
On a day like today the fete continues to amaze me with the amounts of money it raises in only a couple of hours. President Gavin McLachlan's guest of honour was Past President Steven Dickson who declared poceedings open before being presented with a bottle of Springbank's finest by Vice President Duncan MacInnes. At the close of proceedings a very welcome £811 had been raised. Thanks to everyone who attended and especially to those members who manned the stalls.
What a manky day for the fete and the county finals with rain, rain and more rain and it's still raining. Nonetheless, congratulations to Shirley Bannatyne in the singles, Lorraine Brodie and Susan Gilchrist in the pairs and Jessie Andrew, Anne Colville, Moira Wareham and Jean Miller in the fours in winning their respective county championships.
Saturday sees the start of a manic 8 days in here with some of the ladies' county knockout semi-finals on the green (and we still don't know which ones) at 10.00am and this is followed at 2.00pm by the summer fete. The Jim Stewart memorial triples are on Sunday and Monday sees the start of the Doon the Water pairs through to Friday night and the barbecue and dance. There's still time tomorrow to enter this. Next Saturday is a day off then on Sunday it's the 2 bowl pairs. You certainly get value for your membership fee in here! Best of luck to the ladies who are contesting the county knockout semis and hopefully the finals at the Argyll tomorrow.
Thanks to Steven Harris of Pollokshaws for sending on this photo of the winners of their invitation 4's.
As there were no winds gusting to 30mph the Peninver Sands singles went ahead in fairly wet conditions in the morning and despite the rain the green held to a good pace for most of the day. As Sod's Law would have it, the rain chucked it down during the final that saw 2013 winner Robert MacCallum pull back from a 6 - 0 deficit against Jimmy Anderson and go in to the last end at peels. It took one shot to decide the match and a couple of millimetres in Jimmy's favour gave him the trophy. Our sincere thanks to Peninver Sands Holiday Park for their generous and continued sponsorship of the event.
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