60 years of Bowling

Plympton Bowling Club - 60th Year Celebrations

The Plympton Bowling Club was founded in 1962 when the A38 carrying all traffic between
Exeter, Plymouth and South East Cornwall ran through the centre of Plympton village, The
Ridgeway!! And the same year the Tamar Bridge was opened.
The Bowling Green was provided by the then Plympton Rural District Council in 1961 and is
situated in Harewood Park. During several meeting in January and February of 1962, the
first Plympton Bowling Club Management Committee meeting was Held on April 25th 1962
and the opening of the green took place on 28th April 1962, and as a consequence the club is
now celebrating its 60th years of serving the local and surrounding areas of Plympton with
bowling facilities.
It is a very active, well established and well organised club who provide a much needed
asset to its members and the local community, the club provides Plympton and the
surrounding area with sporting and social activity all the year round, aimed at adults of all
ages.
Over the years, the club has developed a strong support from not only the bowling
community but other sporting clubs, the business community, the Plympton Community
Council and a vast number of individuals. Plymouth City Councillors, the Lord Mayors and
the Local Member of Parliament, Sir Gary Streeter MP.
The Club hosts fixtures with other bowling clubs in the area in association with Plymouth
and District Men’s and Lady’s Bowling Leagues, Bowls Devon and in addition, host teams
touring the South West from far and wide and has developed a reputation for its friendly,
cheerful and fun loving attitude, not to mention the Ladies Cream Tea’s, which encourages
visitors to come back to Plympton on a regular yearly basis.

Proud 60 Years Of Bowling

Various Internal Club competitions are also organised throughout the outdoor bowling
season which are very popular and can prove to be very competitive.
The club are extremely proud of their reputation to run a Charity Day each year. This
comprises of democratically choosing a Local charity from a list of charities provided by
members. If possible, the club endeavour to get a local bank or company the match the
funds raised by the club, which is then presented to the selected charity after the event. The
monies raised in recent years, totals in the order of, £ 11,000.00
As previously stated, the club operates through the winter season with the ‘Winter Blues’
meeting regularly in the Club House on every Thursday afternoon to have Tea, a chat and to
participate in Skittles, Quizzes, Curling, carpet bowls and other activities which keeps the
members socially active, in addition to entering many teams in various Indoor Bowling
Leagues and friendlies at the Plymouth Life Centre and other Indoor facilities within the
west country.