Author: Graham

Thanks to all the bowlers who purchased my Lighthouse Art calendars over the last couple of years . We have reached the target of £500 for the RNLI with the final donation going to them in January 2026.

Graham

Sad to report the death of Keith Dutton recently at the age of 84. Keith was a long time member of the club and C team. He was an excellent carpenter who made all the club boxes for the jacks that we still use today as well as the trophy cabinet. He was, with his wife Dianne a member of the Grappenhall short mat bowlers run by Ken Fleming where he made all the boxes for the equipment there. The abiding memory of Keith on the green was that he never practiced and always arrived five minutes before the start of the game!.

RIP

Excellent away day on 18th June 2025 for Seniors section members. Good weather , good food and some good bowling.

Thanks go to the organisers, Peter for the buffet and Comberbach BC. Glad we found the missing block in the end!.

Stan sadly passed away recently at the age of 98, he was a member of the APBC C team, GexSM Mixed Pairs where he partnered Linda Blundell from our ladies section as well as being a regular short mat bowler through to winter at Grappenhall Community Centre. He was a regular on the away days.

Stan was excellent company blessed with a good sense of humour and always had a twinkle in his eye so the ladies said. Towards the end of WW2 he was a young signalman on a Royal Navy Minesweeper when his sister ship was sunk by a kamikazi plane of the coast of Thailand in the Indian Ocean.

John Broad, club member and former member of the APBC “C” Team passed away recently at the age of 95. John was a regular supporter of the team at home and away games throughout last season. In life he had a rural career in farming, was an amateur jockey, a dancer and crown green bowler. H was well travelled and still drove.

Nice to see that the fencing work around one half of both greens has been completed, hopefully this will go some way to keeping dogs/cyclists off the greens. Complete enclosure should be possible when further funding is available.

Secondly, we now have replacement shutters on the small pavilion, this should provide better security and improve the appearance of the building. Who has the keys to open them?.

APBC C team were runners up in this years 5 a side competition. The team of Bill, Mary, Trish, Graham and Ricky are shown above with Captain Les and Vice Captain John on finals day at Padgate BC.. The prize money was picked up at this years League presentation afternoon at GexSM in early December 2024.

Thanks to the organisers of this years lunch at Warrington Golf Club on 20th December, I thought the food and service were excellent. Looks like we will be there next year!.

RNLI Saving Lives at Sea Project

Thanks to all the bowlers who contributed to this project by purchasing one of my Lighthouses Calendars for 2025. We managed to amass a non profit donation of £200.