Tag: Hoole bowling club
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Mini Benches are Back with Flowers Kindly Sponsored by Embleys Nurseries
This year, Embleys Nurseries have kindly provided flowers for our mini bench displays around the green.
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The Green Is Open for the 2025 Season!
What a week for the green to open to bowlers again – beautifully sunny weather and a well-tended green. And already, we have some lovely pots of flowers placed around the edge of the green, giving a real flavour of Spring. This Sunday, Social Bowling starts up again in its usual slots of Sundays and…
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Huge Thank You To All Who Supported Our Bingo Fundraiser!
Friday at 7.30pm signalled eyes down for the Hoole Bowling Club Bingo fundraiser. Organised in the main part by Carole Ingham and Anne Brogden, the night saw 10 games of bingo played by around 50 people, 5 rounds of ‘Play Your Cards Right’ and a generous raffle, all played out in the main hall at…
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Bingo Fundraising Event
We are holding a Bingo fundraising event on Friday 21st February 2025. This will be a great social evening, open to both bowlers and the general public, to help us raise funds for the bowling club. If any of our members have a good relationship with any of the local businesses, we would be grateful if…
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Another Green Makeover Done!
The green team started at 7am today, to give the green yet another mini-overhaul. This time, the green was verticut, pencil tined and mowed in both directions by John, Graham, Paul, Brian and Gail. The process removes any blades of grass growing sideways instead of upwards, and makes the green even more of a pleasure…
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Green Receives A Spanking New Makeover
Today saw the green receive the full treatment. John, Graham, Paul and Gail spent six hours from 7:30 Saturday morning giving the green its long awaited overhaul, which has been delayed for a number of weeks by rain. The green was solid tined, verticut, mowed both ways, edges strimmed, lightly seeded, treated with a feed…
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South Ribble In Bloom 2023
Last week, a flyer advertising the 2023 South Ribble in Bloom competition was brought to the club, and we decided to enter! After Graham Moon made sure the floral displays around the periphery of the green were in good shape and tucked in a couple of fresh pots of flowers, photographs were taken from various…
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Floral Displays Added to the Green
On this Coronation weekend, new floral displays have been added to the green’s bordering paths in the form of miniature benches filled with multi-coloured begonias. The benches, handmade my club member, Don Lowe, compliment the colourful borders and pots, previously planted by Graham and Susan Moon, shown in the gallery of photos below. Bunting has…
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Green Maintenance Work is Paying Off
Work on the green intensified this week in the better Spring weather. The green was already looking great after its Winter aeration, but this week the green was scarified and over seeded. Also, the patches that needed the most attention had further intensive work done on them, and are now sheeted to speed up seed…
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Who’s Who? A Fun End to the Season
At the final Social Bowling afternoon of the 2022 season, Phil Dagnall kindly organised an extra bit of entertainment – a Who’s Who photo competition! Bowlers were asked to bring a childhood photo, and all were pinned to the board anonymously, with everyone then trying to guess which photo belonged to which person. “Look at…
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In-House Doubles and Singles Results
This week saw the culmination of the Hoole in-house doubles and singles competitions for the 2022 season. The final of the doubles was fought between Gail Cafferkey/John Medcalf and Bob Clark/Phil Smallshaw, with Gail and John (pictured above) taking the doubles crown. In the singles final, John Medcalf triumphed against Phil Smallshaw, giving him the…