Esclusham Bowling Club

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1930’s


1933 Opening Day First Bowl on the Green

Mr Duncan Robertson (Managing Director of Bersham Colliery)

bowling the first wood



1933 Opening Day Players and Local Dignitaries

Front row: Esclusham Parish Council members; Harry Jones, Thomas Hughes, ?, ?, Ben Lloyd, J.R.Williams (Secretary of Esclusham Below Bowling Club), Walter Monslow (District Councillor and later Lord Monslow), ?. In the centre of the second row, Mrs E Povah, Mrs W Monslow, Mrs J.R.Williams and Mrs F.W.Morris. Squire Simon Yorke, of Erddig, is pictured in the third row standing between Mrs Povah and Mrs Monslow.


Among the hundreds of people present at the ceremony according to the Wrexham Advertiser and Evening Leader were: Mrs F.W. Morris, Abraham Pennington, Hy. Jones, Edwin Jones, E.T. Wynne, Rev W. Eaton Lloyd, Squire Simon Yorke (of Erddig), Messrs L. Weaver, Mrs Povah (members of the Esclusham Parish Council), Mr E Povah (County Councillor), Messrs Ed Williams (CC), E.J. Williams JP, I.W. Williams JP, Walter Roberts JP, A Cudworth, H Cudworth, JDP Lumsden, A.W. Evans, A. Price, D.Davies, J. Howells, R.Pritchard, J.Taylor, E.Griffiths; Messrs T.Luke, F. Thompson, R. Morris (miners representatives on the Bowling Green Committee), William Price, Maurice Kyffin, Mrs. R.Littlehales, J.M.Jones, Joseph Salisbury, Thomas Kennedy and Charles Edwards.



1939 East Denbighshire Amateur Bowling League Division One Champions


Back row, left to right: Committee :- Jim.A.Cronin, William Henry Evans, Richard Littlehales, Joe Miller, William Owen Price (Vice Ch), J.Hughes, C.Williams, H.Jones (Treas.)


Middle row, left to right: John Richard Williams (Sec), Players: - A.Clayton Hughes, Thomas William Jones, J.P.Evans, Jim Ratcliffe, Tom.H.Steen, Abraham Pennington, Arthur Pemberton, Tom.A.Trenfield (Greenkeeper), H.Williams.


Front row, left to right: Tom Williams (League Merit), Sam Williams, Harold Francis (N.W. Indiv Cup), Hughie Hughes (Capt), Edwin Jones (Vice Capt and Chair), George Thomas (Morris and Colliery Cups), William Williams, Robert Hughes, Absent George Corfield



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