Dorking Bowling Club Badge Cockrell
 
       
 
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2012 Fixture Diary
 

 

 

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Welcome to Dorking Bowling Club Web site, please browse through the pages and learn about our club. This site contains useful information for Up To Date Weather Forecast / Notice Board and News / Map of How to Find Our Club / Men's and Ladies Diary and Maps of How to Get to Away Matches / 2011 Results / Picture Gallery / Club Officers / Club Competitions or Jokes and Trivia to while away a few minutes.

Thinking of  Playing Bowls – Join our Friendly Club

The members of Dorking Bowling Club and visitors continue to enjoy bowling on our green, which is in superb condition and bowling beautifully. A member of a visiting team was recently heard to comment "Its like playing indoors"

We always welcome new members, so if you are thinking of taking up an outdoor activity, we would like to introduce you to the game of bowls, or if you already play and have moved into the area, come along and meet us, see our Green and well stocked Club House.

Regular Coaching Sessions are held on a Monday Evening from 6.00pm for you to try your hand. Flat shoes only required and bowls can be provided.

Friendly Rolls Ups take place regularly on a Monday afternoon and Friday evening, plus there are Internal Competitions throughout the season.

Friendly Men's, Ladies and Mixed matches take place against other clubs in the Surrey and Sussex areas. We also compete in local leagues for those of you with a competitive flair, these include East Surrey League, Mid Surrey League and Border League.

If you have any questions that you wish to ask, or require any further information, please contact me through the web site or phone 01306 886420.
Social Events
During the closed season from October to March there are Monthly Sunday Lunches usually followed by a short quiz. The 3 Course Lunches cooked by volunteer club members, are excellent quality and value for money. (editors comment "the last lunch Apple Crumble dessert was to die for !")
Alternative Fridays Evening there will be Entertainment ~ Quiz Night ~ Skittles Evenings ~ Bingo ~ Pub Games ~ Race Nights ~ See Notice Board on Web Site or in the Club House for details.
Wednesday Afternoons its Cards and Board Games.
Short Breaks in the past have included trips to France and the famous Potters Leisure Resort.
 
CENTENARY
We are pleased to announce that Dorking Bowling Club this year celebrates its 100th Anniversary. 1912 - 2012
On behalf of the present members, we would like to pay tribute to past members who started the club through to the present time. They carried on through two World Wars and survived through good and bad times and in the following years kept the club afloat.
As a private club, upkeep of the green and improvements of facilities since 1912 has been down to the members themselves. This has created a community spirit within the club and provides a worthwhile activity and sport to residents of Dorking, nearby villages in Mole Valley and of course to visiting clubs from all over Surrey.
We are justly proud of the club which we have built up over the years and trust that future generations will benefit from this and carry on the good work.
Mole Valley Council have over the years acknowledged and helped us for the servive we provide to the community, and we thank them for that, and trust that they will continue to do so.
Also our car park is not always adequate and we do have to thank (in the earlier years the Army Cadets) and now the S.C.C. for allowing us at weekends and evenings to use theirs, for which we are grateful
Terry Sutton
Hon Secretary
 
For the History of Dorking Bowling Club see extract from March 2012 Bowls International magazine
www.bowlsinternational.com and our own History Page