Meole Brace Bowling Club

Entertainment Starts at 8.45 pm

Saturday 27th February   Paul Davies

Saturday 6th March  Richie Jones

Saturday 13th March  Country Focus

 Saturday 20th March  Royston

Saturday 27th March Mark Brown

Monday 15th March 2010

Wednesday 7th October 2009

Work was started on both greens with deep scarrifing with top dressing and seeding to be done next monday. The greens will now be closed untill next January when no.1 green will be opened but no.2 green will be closed all winter.

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A presentation was made by John Wall representing The  Shropshire Playing Fields 

Association to Meole Brace B.C. for winning the Best Kept Sports Club in

Shropshire Competition 2009 

John Wall and Don Harrison 

Ray Jones, Colin Beech ,John Wall,Don Harrison, John Trow

Wednesday, September 2nd 2009

Sports enthusiasts from across Shropshie are celebrating after winning awards for keeping their clubs spic and span. The awards are organised by Shropshire Playing Fields Association with bowling, cricket, hockey, rugby, and tennis clubs all being nominated. Overall joint winners of Best Kept Sports Club were Meole Brace Bowling Club and Hadnall Bowling Club. Don Harrison, Meole Brace B.C. secretary said "It's the first time we knew about the awards so I decided to enter the club.It's absolutely fantastic, it's a reward for the officials who have done a lot over the last few years working on a tight budget. We have a very hard working committee and without them the club would not survive"

After 35 years Shropshire win the Crosfield Cup for the second Time. Glyn Herbert the Shropshire home Captain  with the Cup.Shropshire beat Yorkshire by 34 at home playing on Meole Brace No2 Green and won by 10 away at the Waterloo BC in Huddersfield.

Back Row:- Wayne Rogers,Paul Williams,Den Lewis,John Breeze,Callum Wraight,Michael Beer,Mark Holland,Dave Hoffman,Paul Latham,Glyn Herbert,John Nash,Rich Goddard.  Front Row:-Jesse James,Rich Lawson,Simon Parsonage,Keith Wall,Clay Flattley,Michael Dulson, Andy Duckett.

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On Tuesday evening a donation of a seat in memory of Doreen and Les Williams was made by their family to Meole Brace Bowling Club. Club members who played bowls with Les were there for the presentation.

    Stav Recieves the Cup from Clive Fisher (Chairman)

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A good entry considering the time of year, with 52 bowlers starting at 12.00 midday and the weather being good to us. Coupled with a 40th Birthday Celebration for a past President in the name of "Mark Hinks" the venue looked very pleasantly decorated and added to the atmosphere of the occassion. Thankfully it had cooled down slightly for the weekend but still remained shirtsleeves and shorts order for many of the competitors. A cooling shower arrived, appropriately for tea time, and the usual high standard of hospitality for our bowlers and guests was again portrayed by the catering staff for the day. Our grateful thanks to Pauline Hunter and her team. The competition finished at 8.30pm with a closely fought match between John "Bookie" Maddox and Andy "Stav" Jones with "Stav" eventually running out the overall winner. Leading Lady in the competition was Anne Parrish and Tom Jones headed the Leading Junior. After the presentations, we were entertained by John Martin singing and playing us out until midnight and a good day was had by all. We now look forward to the next major competition being the "Sherlock Cup" on 25th July. Many thanks to all those who supported and assisted on the day. 

Clive Fisher (Chairman) 

Captain & Vice Captains Day 6th June 2009

On one of the wettest days we have had for a club competition in the last 40 years Dave Thomas playing well all day to beat Tom Jones in the final.The loosing semi finalists were Tony Williams and Bob Cliffe.The greens were flooded all morning, the rain stopped at about 2' O clock and the greens were swept and bowling got underway about 2:30 and 48 bowlers out of the 62 who entered took part with the final finishing about 8:45. Tea was brought forward to 1:30 when members sat down to a meal prepared by the Meole Ladies Teams.The Captain (Ray Jones) and Vice Captain (Adie Rowe) would like to thank the Ladies for doing the meal and all the members who took part for making it such a good day.

A presentation evening was held at the Club  for the Winter In House Domino league on Wed. 18th. March. A Buffet was provided and a Doubles Knockout was played followed by the presentation of the prize money for the league. The winners of the doubles were Tony Williams and Don Harrison. The winner of the Winter League was John Maddox.

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Finals Day  Sunday 5th April 2009

In the final of the Coors Meole Brace Open Ant Aldridge beat Callum Wraight 21-17 to become the first bowler to successfully defend the title and retain the Doug Marrs Trophy. In doing so he booked his place in the Champion of Champions at the waterloo in Blackpool on 26th September.