Bowling Club

at Montgomery Street

Bowling Club in Montgomery Street

Thank you to Richard Middlemiss for sending me this photograph of bowlers, near his home in East Thomas Street.

Richard's grandparents lived at 19 East Thomas Street from approx. 1914 to 1955.

Question

Bowling Green

The only bowling green in the area that I have been able to find on old maps, lies to the south of Montgomery Street (about 200 yards to the south of East Thomas Street).

Is that the bowling green in the photograph above?

Answer

Two Bowling Greens

The photograph probably is of the bowling green described above.

Yvonne Cain, now living in Australia who wrote:

"There were 2 bowling greens in Montgomery Street.  My dad went to both to play cards - whist, or the game where you use a peg-board.

-  There was a public bowling green next to the children's play ground.

-  The other bowling green belonged to a club.  It was surrounded by houses.  That could be the one in the photo.  It is in Wellington Street. If I remember, you would walk pass it and not notice it.  I think the door was in Montgomery street  . You got into it by a metal green door.

Yvonne Cain (nee Dorr), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia:  September 28, 2007

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