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St Margaret's Bowlers at Potters 2025
The St Margaret’s annual trip to Potters, at Hopton-on-Sea, took place at the end of January. The St Margaret’s members were joined by bowlers from other clubs in the area, making the total up to 48.
Many of you will have watch the World Indoor Bowling Championship on the TV. This has been staged at Potters for over 20 years. We were able to see demonstrations and Master Classes from some of the stars of Bowls England. Potters has superb facilities for bowlers and the whole thing is a great opportunity to meet and compete with players from all over the country. We entered 10 teams, two of which had four consecutive wins to get through to the knockout stage. One team, Pat & Sam Dobson and Marlene & Roger Bartlett (from Birstall BC), won right through to the final. This proved to be a very exciting and closely fought match against a team from Peterborough, who managed to force a win on their last shot of the final end!
There are many activities on offer other than bowls such as swimming, curling, snooker pool, Segway, pottery and lots of quizzes. Winners medals were won in archery and rifle shooting. Meal times offer a wonderful variety of top class food and the days are rounded off with high quality live entertainment for which Potters is justly famous.
The trip was organized by Pat Dobson, who commented ‘This is our seventh trip to Potters and enjoyed by all, lots of fun and laughter, with the bonus of having a team in the final’ Well done Pat. We are already looking forward to next year's trip!
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Roly Green
SMCBC PRESENTATION EVENING​
We held our annual presentation evening at SMCBC on Saturday 9th November 2024. photographs of winners and runners up
The evening was catered for by Rival Catering and a wonderful evening was had by all.
St Margaret's Isle of Wight Bowls Tour
Mid August saw the St Margaret's bowlers on their summer bowls tour. This is the latest of a long series of tours which seem to get bigger and better every year. This year's destination was the Isle of Wight, a place which is full of interest for any holiday maker. In the eight day's of our stay, we managed to fit in five matches against local clubs along with lots of sightseeing. Matches were arranged in Shanklin, where we stayed, Totland, Ventnor, Cowes and Ryde. These are all interesting places and time was allowed for a good look round before the match.
Once again, this proved to be a very enjoyable tour,with 38 bowlers along with 12 non-bowlers taking part. Not all of these were St Margaret's members as guests from other local clubs are always welcome. The tour is a great opportunity for sharing interests and getting to know other members of the party, perhaps over a quiet evening drink.
As hardly needs saying, the matches were all played in a very friendly spirit and the results were often close. I can report two wins and three losses. Each year we have an award for the highest scoring player of the tour which this year was won by Mary Linnett.
Overall it was an exciting and fun packed tour. Our thanks and appreciation go to the organiser, Pat Dobson, who's plans for next year's trip to Eastbourne are already well in hand!
Roly Green
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Tour Photo's below
We held a club competition on Sunday 21st July 2024 for members. The game was played in an unusual format, but it meant everyone had a good chance to win.
We all had a fun afternoon and the afternoon concluded with a faith tea; which as always, was wonderful.
Picture : Trophy presented by Pete Smith, men's competition secretary (left) to the winner - Alex Rajczyk (right). Congratulations Alex.
A few photos from the Fun Day 2024
A good day was had by all
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Ladies Triples Day Sunday June 9th
The Ladies had a fun but competitive game and the weather was kind to us.The points tally was very close and the victors won by one point.We all had a lovely cream tea afterwards , courtesy of Mary Linnett,Club Comp, Secretary, who organised the afternoon. Many thanks to Mary and those who made it a very enjoyable afternoon.
