Glen Innes Bowling Club Macquarie Street Glen Innes NSW 2370 Australia

History

• 1917 - At a meeting of those interested, held on 6th October 1917 a Bowling Club was formed in Glen Innes.
  The first officials were Patron: W. T. Cadell; President F.S. Mackenzie. The land leased from a Mr Healey (142 ft x 198 ft) at the corner of Wentworth and Macquarie Street, cost thirty pounds per year.
• 1919 - 9th April 1919 the official opening took place of the green at the corner of Wentworth and Macquarie Street.

The highlights from the next few decades were :-

• 1923 - lights were installed for night bowls;
• 1928 - membership increased when the motion prohibiting play on Sunday was rescinded;
• 1935 - Armidale, Inverell, Tenterfield and Glen Innes formed the New England Bowling Association;
• 1936 - new electric lighting system was installed;
• 1950 - lights were removed from the No 1 green;
• 1955 - A liquor licence was granted to the Club and the Glen Innes Women's Bowling Club was officially opened;
• 1961 - the 3rd green was established;
• 1967 - the new brick clubhouse was opened;
• 1988 - Enclosed verandah and barbecue extensions were made to the Clubhouse;
• 1992 - the Glen Innes Bowling Club celebrated its 75th Anniversary;
  
  An extract from the report of the then President of the Club, David Little epitomises the influence of the game:
  
  "Somewhere on the green each day every bowler can be identified as acting out their part in this precise resume of what its all about… Bowls is a science, a study of a lifetime. You may exhaust yourself, but never your subject. Bowls is a contest, a melee calling for courage , skill and self control. It is a test of temper, a trial of honour, a revealer of character. Bowls affords the opportunity to play the man and act the gentleman. It reveals the real sportsman who accepts victory or defeat with a grin, as victor shakes hands with opponent, hoping for another day to play again with the same abounding friendship. That glorious game of bowls."

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