Bowls legend David Bryant CBE, three-times world champion and four-times Commonwealth Games champion, is to perform the opening ceremony of the new Bradley Stoke Bowls Club on Saturday 1st May. Representatives of the City & County of Bristol Bowling Association and the Gloucestershire Bowling Association are also expected to attend the event. The sport is returning to the Baileys Court
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Move to set up new bowls club gathers momentum
Hopes of seeing a new resident bowling club at the Baileys Court green have taken a step forward with the inaugural meeting of the Bradley Stoke Bowls Club. Over forty people, including many former members of the now disbanded Northavon Bowling Club, attended the meeting on Tuesday 13th January. The meeting was also attended by the Mayor of Bradley Stoke,
Continue readingMeeting called to form new bowls club – but will the Council play ball?
A public meeting on Wednesday evening this week is to discuss the possibility of forming a new bowling club in Bradley Stoke. The move comes almost twelve months to the day after the town’s long-established Northavon Bowling Club was forced to wind itself up after a dispute with Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) over the rental of the bowling green
Continue readingBowls club could rise from the ashes in 2010
A new bowls club could take up residence at Bradley Stoke’s Baileys Court Activity Centre in 2010, following secret talks between Deputy Mayor Ben Walker and a former president of the now disbanded Northavon Bowls Club. The bowling green at Baileys Court has been virtually unused for the past two seasons after the old bowls club failed to come to
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