Year: 2024

Donation to Julia’s House

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Steve Allen of Downton Bowls Club during his Presidency of the New Forest Bowling Association raised £800 for Julia’s House a hospice for children with life limiting conditions. He would like to thank Rod & Marg Hall for selling raffle tickets at various Association events and also all those Downton bowlers who kindly donated raffle prizes. Sent from my iPhone

Marie and Alan gift

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To Members and friends. We were so pleased and grateful for that lovely award, we are going to call it ‘Our memories of Downton’. A really truly tasteful piece of art. We never expected that. The voucher for the garden will be very useful and I think we may buy a particular garden ornament to remind us of our bowling friends. As many of you may not have seen the lovely prismatic gift we enclose an image. Once again a huge thank you. [image0.jpeg]

[uncategorised] [B&D Presentation Lunch]

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Paul & I travelled to the Suncliff Hotel in Bournemouth, to collect the awards (see below) for the Bustards finishing as runners up in the B&DBA League 2024, Triples Section 5 (Saturdays).
Congratulations & thank you to everyone who played for the Bustards. These are for us to keep & will be displayed at the clubhouse.
We were joined by another 142 B&D club members, who were all treated to a lovely three course meal. We were on a table with some of our good friends from Milton-on-Sea, who were runners up in section 3.
Fortunately, they started with section 6, so we didn’t have to wait too long!
As both our team are scheduled to play in section 4 next season, hopefully we can return next year to claim both the winners & the runners up awards.
Ivan Buss Bustards Team Captain 17 November 2024.
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Dragons 2024

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Hi All

Some statistics for the men’s meeting:

We are in Division 4 of the B&D Morning Triples.

We played 18 matches and won 13 and lost 5. We came 4th in the league.

Top of the league winning 27 rinks was Lyndhurst Lasers.
2nd was Fordingbridge Forresters winning 26 rinks (Cathy Dean Captain)
3rd was Fordingbridge Flyers winning 25 rinks.
4th was the Dragons with 24 rinks won.

The core team of Steve, Dawn, Charles, Cathy, Lynda & Colin played the bulk of the matches. Due to holidays, sickness & prior engagements, the following help out. Paul Bromage ,John James, Nick Purkis and Alan & Rosemary Foster.

As the Bustards won promotion from Division 5, they will be playing us next season. Congratulations to them on a successful season.

Steve Allen
Dragons Captain

2024 Competitions Results

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We finished the 2024 Downton Bowling Club Competitions on Saturday with a close-fought Triples Final that was played on Friday afternoon. I’ve now compiled the complete list of this year’s Competitions Winners:

Competition2024 WinnersRunners Up
NovicesJanet Barnes Peggy Maguire
SetsAlan WatersPaul Bromage
Two WoodsIvan BussGeoff Warr
Mixed TriplesPaul Bromage,
Alan Waters,
Muriel Amey		David Fretwell,
Tony Musselwhite,
Marie Clarke
Ladies PairsMuriel Amey,
Jane Smith		Dawn Allen,
Marg Hall
Mens PairsPaul Bromage,
Lewis Ambler		Tony Musselwhite,
John James
Aussie PairsMartin Davies,
Paul Bromage		Alan Waters,
David Fretwell
Ladies SinglesJane SmithPeggy Maguire
Mens SinglesAlan WatersNick Purkis
Champion of ChampionsAlan WatersJane Smith
Greenkeeper’s TrophyCharles BurrowsMarie Clarke
Ralph Bentley CompetitionGeoff Warr

There’s also a page in the Competitions section of the website:

Greenkeeper’s Competition

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Eight players came together for the 2024 Greenkeeper’s Competition, organised by Marie. It was a lovely day, with a first round of twelve ends followed by a semifinal of a further twelve ends.

The final was between Charles and Marie (the club gardener) and Charles won the Trophy.