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Monday April 14, 2008

Bowling going, going gone?

Like the village green and duck pond the village bowling green is very part part of what you expect to find in the UK. Sadly though people are now becoming reluctant to join bowling clubs and without the support of full time members these clubs are at risk. I think this is very much what this country is becoming - we are starting to go home shut the door and stay there instead of going out and meeting people and interacting with them. Henry VIII actually put in place a law where the game was forbidden to be played except at Christmas - that law only repealed in 1845! It seems Henry wanted the population to spend more time doing archery much more useful in his opinion. As usual the Wikipedia site has an excellent item on bowls.

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