Archive News 2019

R.I.P. Jeanette Seymour

It is with great sadness we advise that Jeanette died peacefully on Boxing Day. Jeanette has been the club’s ladies captain for many years and has many friends within the local bowling community.

R.I.P. David Radford 1935-2019

It is with much regret we advise that David died peacefully in his sleep at Colchester hospital on Sunday 20th October after a brief battle with kidney and lung cancer.

David has been a long time member of Bocking Bowls Club and Bocking Alliance Bowls Club. David became a qualified bowls coach in 1983 and has played for Essex County on 35 occasions. He will be sorely missed.

2019 LADIES NWE TRIPLES LEAGUE WINNERS

The strength of our ladies membership has been demonstrated with their success in winning the 2019 Ladies NWE Triples League.

LADIES COUNTY UN-BADGED PAIRS CHAMPIONS

Many congratulations to Lesley Scott and Jane Bouch who are the 2019 Ladies County Un-badged Pairs Champions

2019 MENS NWE TRIPLES LEAGUE SUCCESSES

Our A Team are runners up in the A league and the B Team are runaway winners of the B league, winning all but one of their matches. The B Team then won the Stansted Cup by beating the winners of the western area, Clavering, 6-2 in the final.

2019 NWE PAIRS CHAMPIONS

Congratulations to Phil Wood and Roy Brown on winning the NWE Pairs

2019 Sudbury League Double Fours Champions

The club won this year’s Sudbury League Double Fours competition

2019 mEMORIAL SHIELD rUNNERS-UP

Having won the Millenium Cup in 2017 and 2018 we again reached the final and are this year’s runner-up.

2019 OPENING MATCH

Easter Saturday and beautiful weather encouraged 34 members to participate in the opening match. Traditionally Captain v Chairman, this year the Captain challenged the Vice Captain and all was going fine with 3 ends remaining on each of the 5 rinks and the Captain’s team leading by 11 shots. Then it all went pear-shaped with the final score being a win for the vice captain by 10 shots.

2019 pre-season open meeting

The Pre-Season Open Meeting will be held on Sunday 7th April 2019 at 10.30 a.m. in the Clubhouse. Please make every effort to attend.

2019 North west essex league fixtures

The 2019 North West Essex League fixtures have been added to the website.