Author: Graham

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.