01 Apr YEAR BOOK & WEBSITE
Our season starts on Monday and I’m sure everyone will be eager to get back on the green playing competitive bowls. Unfortunately the season will be starting without our new format Year Book which I was personally hoping everyone would be saying WOW! The format has been changed to try and breath some life into printed Year Books that are regrettably in decline. Hopefully the year books will be available by the end of next week.
The reason for the delay is that the Dearneside Press, who have printed the booklet for many years, sub-contracted part of the work to YM Chantry in Wakefield. YM Chantry went into receivership yesterday, you may have heard about it on local news. We’re working with Dearneside to try and recover the situation as soon as possible.
The reader who avidly reads this website will notice there’s a new section added – Archive. All historical data from the Year Book has been migrated into that section of the website which will be very easy to update during and at the end of each season. This has opened up the Year Book for the new format which will have all the fixtures and information that you need for this particular season, and in a more user friendly format.
The Archive gives an incomplete history of our association from the foundation in 1970 to the present day. I say incomplete because all the facts are there but none of the stories. If you have any of the many stories and anecdotes which much exist (with photos) please let me have them to add to the website so that we can leave our history for the veteran bowlers who follow us. Why for instance does Division 1 start in 1987 and Division 2 start in 1970? What have Greenhead Park done wrong not to be acknowledged as the first 1st division champions? Answers on a postcard please.
In the fullness of time I would like to go through the records and expand the damned stupid abbreviations because in another 50 years time no one will know what Skelmanthorpe W and Crosland Moor L means, did they have women or ladies bowling for them and did you know that D Brown had spots?