Adelaide Bowling Club

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Adelaide Bowling Club was founded in 1897 and is the oldest bowling club in South Australia. [1] [2] [3]

The club was founded as the result of a public meeting called by Henry F. Dench and chaired by J. H. Finlayson. The Governor, Sir T. Fowell Buxton accepted the position of patron. Lavington Bonython, James Marshall, R. Kyffin Thomas, W. H. R. Porter, F. W. Thomas, F. Coombs, B. H. Pascoe, W. Thyer, F. W. Good, W. D. Reed, V. Lawrence, H. A. Grainger, F. A. Crump, J. H. Finlayson, and E. Eglinton were among the charter members. [4] Sir Edwin T. Smith, Robert Barr Smith, William Gilbert, and A. H. Grainger were also among the founding members and supporters.

The first green was established on a plot 300 by 95 yards (274 by 87 m) behind Government House, North Terrace. [5] Its location was later an impediment to a plan by the Adelaide City Council to extend Kintore Avenue through to Victoria Drive, and so provide another exit from the city and so reduce traffic congestion. [6] For this reason, the club was moved to its present location in 1958. [7]

The Club now has its premises within Rymill Park in the eastern parklands, with the entrance off Dequetteville Terrace.

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References

  1. ↑ "Bowls Australia > About BA > History". www.bowlsaustralia.com.au. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Adelaide Bowling Club – Fielders Centenary". Fielders Centenary. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "The Adelaide Bowling Club". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . Vol. XLIII, no. 13, 263. South Australia. 22 April 1901. p. 4. Retrieved 14 August 2022– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "SA Bowling Clubs". The Mail . Vol. 44, no. 2, 216. Adelaide. 27 November 1954. p. 13. Retrieved 13 January 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Bowling". Evening Journal . Vol. XXIX, no. 8234. Adelaide. 3 April 1897. p. 7. Retrieved 13 January 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Kintore Avenue Extension". The Advertiser . Vol. 97, no. 29, 926. Adelaide. 13 September 1954. p. 4. Retrieved 13 January 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ Summerlink, Patricia (2011). The Adelaide Park Lands: A Social History. Wakefield Press (Australia). p. 87. ISBN   9781862549142 . Retrieved 15 August 2019.


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