The Half Year General Meeting took place on 13th October and was well attended by club representatives, players, and captains, all gathering for the end-of-season prize giving. This year we sadly lost David Sykes, and in his honour, League President Richard Armitage delivered a heartfelt tribute,...
Bowls eh? It never stops surprising us. And yesterday at Netherton Con, we were treated to one of those truly special days, a final that was everything that’s brilliant about bowls – drama, tension, underdogs, and glorious comebacks. John Hodgson is the 2025 Veterans League Rose...
LONGWOOD bowler Andy Wike took the John Hoyle Trophy after defeating fellow inter-district bowler Graham Sigsworth in the final held at Moldgreen Con. Wike won the contest 21-14 and was heard to say to his opponent that it was a "game of two halves" and that...
Tomorrow, 26 September, we have the John Hoyle Trophy final starting 1.30 pm and as usual it's at Huddersfield Recreations home of Moldgreen Conservative Club. This competition has quickly become the grand finale to our season, it's now in it's fifth year and each year we...
LOWERHOUSES duo Graham Hirst and Les Holmes are the Huddersfield Veterans Bowling Association's 2025 Over 70s Pairs champions taking the title on home soil. The quarter-finals saw Hirst and Holmes with a -1 start due to plying on their home green against Cowcliffe duo Derrick Hewitt...
Thursday 18 September sees the delayed finals day of the Over 70's pairs at Lowerhouses. The competition sponsored by the late David Hollas of Brockholes bowling club is a relatively new competition in our portfolio having started as recently as 2019 and with a two...
Huddersfield's home team topped the 'home' league with 8 wins out of 8 games with table topping points of 164, our closest rival West Riding trailing by 22 points. This was a fantastic achievement by all the players bearing in mind that the team line-up...
We have been fortunate to be able to re-arrange this year's Rosebowl Final to Thursday 2 October thanks to the co-operation of our hosts Netherton Con and our sponsor Paul Rangeley. It had been intended that the Final, which had been washed out last week, would...
Thursday's Peter & Judith Muff Rosebowl at Netherton Con was abandoned with the green waterlogged. An heavy downpour initially delayed the start but with thunder and lightning close by and further heavy downpours that contained hail a decision to rearrange the final was quickly agreed. The eight...
The final of the HVBA's flagship individual trophy takes place on Thursday 11 September at Netherton Con starting at 1.30 pm. Originally sponsored by the Huddersfield Examiner it has recently been renamed in memory of Peter and Judith Muff. Peter was very well known in bowling...