On Friday 26 April I had the honour of honouring one of my own teammates for achieving the age of 90 and still actively bowling. Jeffery Oldroyd was 90 in February but he's had to wait until the bowling season started to earn his Certificate...
The 2025 Yorkshire Inter-District Veterans Bowling League starts this coming Friday 2 May with Huddersfield facing the 2023 champions, Leeds. The home team have chosen to start their campaign on the Meltham No.2 green and the team is: Andy Carter, John Bloomer, Tony Cross, Mick Chapman, Robert...
ANYONE who stayed to watch the conclusion of the Pairs Shield Preliminary round played at Marsh Liberal would certainly have enjoyed the bowling on offer with two well-fancied pairs given a run for their money as the afternoon drew to a close. Last year’s winners, Ian...
LONGWOOD, the 2024 Team Knockout champions were worthy 134-115 winners over Lowerhouses in the big tie of the opening round of the 2025 version of the competition. Lowerhouses, the 2024 League champions were quick off the blocks at Skelmanthorpe Windmill winning three of the four...
MARSH Liberal Club is the venue as the Huddersfield Veterans Bowling Association (HVBA) Pairs Shield competition commences on Thursday at 1:30pm. There is a good afternoon of bowling in prospect with three recent winners of this competition, 2024 winners from Waterloo Ian Lunn and Alan Stephenson,...
Once again we have a busy calendar of events planned throughout the 2025 Huddersfield Veterans Bowling Associations summer season. All the competitions that ran last year are again taking place this year and the opening competition is the Pairs event. The closing date for entries for this...
EDDIE HAIGH, who passed away on Sunday 23rd March, was a top-class bowler in the Huddersfield Veterans Bowling Association (HVBA) winning the major competitions on numerous occasions. And, if not winning the actual competition he was competing in then his name would feature somewhere in...
At the AGM in February our club representatives indicated they were overwhelmingly in favour of trying a 'drawn pairs' format for the Over 70's pairs competition. This is a format familiar to many plauers/clubs and is well received as a fun and sociable approach to...
In line with the 6-man league structure the Julie Fuller Trophy has seen an increase in the number of teams competing in the competition in 2025. This has led a Preliminary round of nine ties in 2024 increasing to 14 this year. Defending champions New Mill...
Handicapping for the 6-man Julie Fuller competition has now been published. The 6-man league was established as a lower divisions competition with restrictions that effectively excluded top ranking bowlers from the 10-man league and team handicaps have reflected those restrictions. Easing the restrictions over the past...