Category: Social Events

The Timber Trundlers came to play

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It has taken three years, but finally, on Friday 5th September, Downton Bowling Club were delighted to host and play the Timber Trundlers at home in Downton.

After a week of heavy rain following a prolonged dry spell, it was touch and go if this match would actually go ahead, but the green recovered magnificently allowing the match to go ahead. As you can see from the pictures below, the match was played on a warm September afternoon with sunshine and almost no wind. We were able to make use of six rinks and the scores were:

RinkDownton (Home)ResultHomeAwayTimber Trundlers (Away)
Rink 1Janet/Marg/RodD1717Pam/Derek/Paul O
Rink 2Robert/Martin/IvanW1511Sheila/Ruth/Paul D
Rink 3Steve/Jenny/DawnL622Tina/Linda/Steve Dix
Rink 4Peggy/David/ColinW2413Ray/DL/John
Rink 5Lynda/Martin (TT)/Lew (TT)W217Mo/June/Bill
Rink 6Patrick/Neil/Paul BW1711Mike/George/David H

Final Scores: Downton 100, Timber Trundlers 81. Downton won 4, lost 1 and drew 1.

The Timber Trundlers have a tradition where, for the final end, each team swaps woods. This puts a different perspective on the last end and gives everyone a chance to try the different feel of wooden bowls. After the games, both teams had tea and biscuits in the clubhouse with our visitors only having to suffer three of Steve’s jokes.

The Timber Trundlers are a Lignum-Vitae Preservation Bowling Association. Lignum-Vitae is the name of the wood that is used to produce these bowls and it is one of the hardest and heaviest type of wood known. Those interested in these special bowls may wish to learn more about them by visiting https://thesportofbowls.co.uk/articles/article-4-lignum-bowls/

Charity Fun Day – Saturday 19th April

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Despite a less-than-favourable forecast, the weather held and Downton Bowling Club opened their 2025 season with their traditional Charity Fun Day on Saturday afternoon.

Marg Hall won the spider and went home with a bottle of bubbly; Janet Barnes, Dawn Jones and Colin Morris won Triples Competition Number 1 and Triples Competition Number 2 was won by Tony Musslewhite, Ann Noble and Geoff Warr.

The weather was great and a great time was had by all who attended.

Marg Hall wins the spider competition winning a bottle of bubbly.
Janet Barnes, Dawn Jones and Colin Morris won Triples Competition No.1
Tony Musslewhite, Ann Noble and Geoff Warr won Triples Competition No.2

Marie and Alan gift

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To Members and friends. We were so pleased and grateful for that lovely award, we are going to call it ‘Our memories of Downton’. A really truly tasteful piece of art. We never expected that. The voucher for the garden will be very useful and I think we may buy a particular garden ornament to remind us of our bowling friends. As many of you may not have seen the lovely prismatic gift we enclose an image. Once again a huge thank you. [image0.jpeg]

Charity Fun Day

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Well, the Green is now Open and the Fun Day over. Thank you to everyone who came along and enjoyed the fun.

It felt good to be back on the Green with friends again, sending your bowls towards the Jack. The green is pretty good, given the weather, but, today the sun shone and we all had a great time.

Green Opening – Charity Fun Afternoon

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Just confirming that the Green will open for our first event on Tuesday 16th at 2pm.

This is our traditional Charity Match and so we will ask for £2 from each player to compete in the preliminary Spider. After the Spider, we will choose some teams to compete over 10 ends, depending on the numbers – So come along and loosen those arms!

After Tuesday the Green is obviously open for the rest of the season.

This week’s highlights:

  • We have a Men’s Practise on Thursday Evening
  • Friday is Club Night

Feel free to use the Green for a Roll Up anytime.

Looking forward to seeing you all.

2024 Bowls Season – Social Bowling in Downton

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Social Bowls is an important part of bowling at Downton. It helps new bowlers learn both the art and etiquette of playing bowls and builds confidence. This season we’re planning to change how our Social Bowling is organised. We will be holding two Social Bowling sessions a week:

  • A Social Bowling session on a Monday afternoon (excluding Bank holidays) starting at 2pm.
  • A Social Bowling session on a Friday evening from 6pm.

For Monday’ session, we are looking for volunteers (male and/or female) to run the session. This would involve arriving at the club a few minutes before 2pm to open up the clubhouse; put out the bowls equipment for a rink and then play a game. Afterwards, they will make the tea if needed and supervise the tidying up. If we get enough volunteers, you should only need to do this once in a season.

We will also be having Social Bowling on a Friday evening from 6pm. However we would recommend every member who has a mobile phone to subscribe to the Club’s WhatsApp group. You can then post a message on the Group saying you are going to play on a particular Friday and other players can respond saying they would like to join you. We will make tea and biscuits available on these days.

If you are willing to help the club and can volunteer for an afternoon on a Monday, please get in touch with Steve Allen by email or phone.

Thank you
Steve Allen

Christmas Coffee Morning Frivolity

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Our lovely ladies – Muriel, Rosemary and Anne – organised a lovely morning of coffee cake and laughs on 20th December. Christmas hats and jumpers abounded (some hats were sillier than others, as were those wearing them). Bingo warmed us up, followed by a bumper raffle. Thank you to all those who supported our Christmas event.

Alan Waters

Downton hosting two New Forest Plate Finals

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On Saturday, 9th September Downton Bowls Club will be hosting two New Forest Plate Finals.

The first final will start at 10.00am and the second at 2.00pm so there will be much to see all day.

Teas, coffees and other refreshments will be available over the course of the day – and the Bar will be open!

Spectators are warmly welcome.

Leisure Centre ‘Fun Day’

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On Sunday, 3rd September the Leisure Centre in Downton is holding its ‘Fun Day’ from 11.00am – 4.00pm and, hopefully, there will be some people wishing to have a go at playing Bowls.
We are planning to have the Green open for a roll-up, so please look in when you come along.