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MARGATE BOWLING CLUB

Margate Bowling Club is a welcoming and friendly lawn bowls club and is open to people of all ages and abilities.

The club’s bowling green is located in Cliftonville, the address is: Margate Bowling Club, 18 Northdown Avenue, Cliftonville Kent CT9 2NW. 

The licensed clubhouse is situated in a quiet residential road sheltered by a tall hedge on the roadside. This has the advantage of enjoying good playing conditions, not often affected by the wind and enhanced by its sunny location too. Local people have been known to say that they didn’t even know a bowling club was nearby. It really is an enjoyable experience to play bowls here at any time of day, on any day of the week as well as the long summer evenings. Come along and try it.

The club play many league and friendly matches throughout season, which runs from late April to late September giving plenty of opportunities for everyone to bowl. In addition, organised “roll-ups” take place on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons with play commencing at 1300 hours. (Note: if there are no matches scheduled on Saturdays). The club is affiliated to the Kent County Bowling Association and Bowls England.

 

If you require any further information about bowling matters, please telephone

Jackie Boon on 07960 554 039

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VENUE HIRE:

The clubhouse is available to hire for functions i.e. wedding receptions, anniversary’s etc. For further information, please telephone Carole Smith Social Secretary 07884 934 664.

 

BRIEF HISTORY OF MARGATE BOWLING CLUB

The Margate Bowling Club is situated at 18, Northdown Avenue, Cliftonville, Kent CT9 2NW and has been here since it moved in 1922 from its former site. The earliest historical reports of the Margate bowling green can been found in a 1601 record at the St John's Church in Margate. At that time the Bowling Green was situated in Market Place, now the present Market Square housing the Town Hall and Museum. The green was subsequently moved to Zion Place thought to be early 1800 and then to Hartsdown Road in mid 1800's until it moved to its present site in 1922. It is reasonable to assume any green in Margate would have been called the Margate Bowling Green. Around 1920 the Margate Corporation subsumed the Margate Bowling Club green. On 24th November 1921 a Private Company, Margate Bowling Club Limited was founded and in 1922 the Margate Bowling Club transferred as a private club to its present site in Northdown Avenue.

        The Club has been on this site since 1922 and is of historic interest in that the clubhouse is an original brick and timber roof building. Indeed it has retained much of its exterior design having a porch with wooden patio style glazed doors along its front aspect overlooking the (bowling) green. In February 1945, in his capacity as Club President, Mr Percy Snow handed over to the Club the deeds of the land free of any commitments. In 1963 a ladies CIub was formed and permission was granted to use the facilities at Northdown Avenue alongside Margate Bowling Club. In January 2002 the men’s and ladies’ clubs amalgamated to become the Percy Snow joint members club. The Margate Bowling Club Limited Company was formally wound up in 2005.The Club is the only fully private bowling club in Thanet as the other local bowling clubs are leased from Thanet District Council and other local/parish councils.