Cranbrook Park Bowling Club 1912 - 2013
We are delighted to inherit this beauutiful building, built before the First World War.
It has been an important part of local life for generations of bowls players in Valentines Park and we will proudly keep the winners board on the wall inside, with a small display of memorabilia.
The centre will be delighted to welcome back any former members of the Bowling Club, and our resident local radio station, East London Radio, are planning to record chats in the centre or elsewhere with anyone previously or still playing bowls anywhere in East London, to contribute to a radio programme which will be completed and broadcast online by the end of 2015.
We'll have more about the rich history of the Bowling club on this page during 2015.
If you would like to contribute to this or the radio programme, please email ian@eastlondonradio.org.uk
from Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 23 January 1914 (British Newspaper Archive)
from Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 18 December 1914 (British Newspaper Archive)
from Chelmsford Chronicle Friday 31 October 1919 (British Newspaper Archive)
from The Newsman newspaper, Saturday, November 24th 1934 (British Newspaper Archive)
from Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 22 August 1939 (British Newspaper Archive)
from The Chelmsford Chronicle, Friday 30th December 1910 (British Newspaper Archive)
The 2012 Centenary of the Club
Barkingside21 Blog Thursday, May 14, 2015
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We have received some generous funding which means we will be able to adapt the building with full disabled access, including toilet facilities.
We have now signed contracts with the council to commence our lease of The Cranbrook Centre, which will last until at least 2021.
We hope to open in October
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