Cookies

We use essential cookies to make our site work. We'd also like to set analytics cookies that help us make improvements by measuring how you use the site. These will be set only if you accept.

For more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our cookies page.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. For example, the selections you make here about which cookies to accept are stored in a cookie.

You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

Analytics Cookies

We'd like to set Google Analytics cookies to help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify you.

Third Party Cookies

Third party cookies are ones planted by other websites while using this site. This may occur (for example) where a Twitter or Facebook feed is embedded with a page. Selecting to turn these off will hide such content.

Skip to main content

History of Hadleigh BC

Hadleigh Bowling Club

The original green used by Hadleigh Bowling Club was attached to the White Lion and was advertised as such in the Ipswich Journal  of June 1st 1754.  The year in which the club itself was founded is less clear as the club records have been lost, but it is known that it originally met in the Billiard Room of the White Lion.  The green was physically separated from the White Lion in 1973 when Magdalen Road was constructed. 

The link with the White Lion gradually disappeared with the Club initially taking on the maintenance of the green in 1906 and later renovating and extending the clubhouse.  The Club eventually purchased the green and clubhouse from the owners of the White Lion, Tolly Cobbold, in 1990 using members’ loans and local authority grants to provide the c£50k needed.   The Club remained on the same site until 2010 when it was sold to enable the building of the Magdalen Road Care Home.  The developers of the care home moved the Club north to Stone Street, where they laid an eight rink green and single storey pavilion. 

The Club moved to its new clubhouse and green in 2010 where it remains today.  The new pavilion was large enough to enable Short Mat Bowls to be introduced into the Club for the first time providing bowling facilities during the winter period when the green is closed for playing.