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1978 B Riley Winner                          President's Trophy Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
1980 A Team Champions                   Division 4 Darwen & District Bowling League
1982 A Team Champions                   Division 5 Blackburn & District Bowling League
1982 A Team R/U                               Division 3 Darwen & District Bowling League
1983 A Team Champions                   Division 4 Blackburn & District Bowling League
1983 A Team R/U                               Division 2 Darwen & District Bowling League
1983 B Team Champions                    Division 4 Darwen & District Bowling League
1985 A Team Winners                        Moorfield Trophy Darwen & District Bowling League
1985 B Team R/U                               Division 4 Darwen & District Bowling League
1986 A Team Champions                   Division 3 Blackburn & District Bowling League
1986 A Team R/U                               Division 2 Darwen & District Bowling League
1987 A Team R/U                               Division 2 Blackburn & District Bowling League
1987 R Briggs Merit Winner              Division 2 Blackburn & District Bowling League
1988 Club Winners                             Sports Team of the Year Darwen & District Bowling League
1989 A Team Champions                   Division 3 Blackburn & District Bowling League
1989 Ladies' A Champions                 Division 1 Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
1989 J Smith R/U                               Ladies' Town Bowls
1990 A Team R/U                               Division 2 Darwen & District Bowling League
1991 J & R B Smith Winners             Borough of Blackburn Mixed Pairs
1992 J Martindale R/U                       Presidents' Cup Darwen & District Bowling League
1993 A Team R/U                               Division 2 Darwen & District Bowling League
1993 D Proud-Briggs & R Briggs      Winners Scapa Scania Doubles
1994 Ladies' A R/U                            Division 1 Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
1994 D Proud-Briggs                          R/U Presidents Cup Darwen & District Bowling League
1995 A Team Champions                   Division 2 Darwen & District Bowling League
1995 B Team R/U                               Division 4 Darwen & District Bowling League
1995 Ladies' A Champions                 Division 1 Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
1996 Team R/U                                   Division 3 Blackburn Indoor Bowling League
1997 D Proud-Briggs Winner             Max Forrest Blackburn & District Bowling League
1998 Ladies' A Champions                 Division 1 Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
1999 B Team Champions                    Division 5 Blackburn & District Bowling League
1999 B Team R/U                               Division 4 Darwen & District Bowling League
2001 A Team R/U                               Division 2 Darwen & District Bowling League
2003 B Team Champions                    Division 4 Darwen & District Bowling League
2003 Ladies' A R/U                            Division 1 Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2004 Ladies' A Champions                 Division 1 Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2005 A Team Champions                   Division 2 Darwen & District Bowling League
2005 J Rushton Winner                      President's Trophy Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2006 A Team R/U                               Division 3 Blackburn & District Bowling League
2006 Team Champions                       Division 2 Blackburn Vets League
2006 T Hindle Winner                        Merit Trophy Division 2 Blackburn Vets League
2006 R B Smith R/U              Individual Merit Trophy K/O Darwen & District Bowling Leagu
2006 R B Smith Winner                     Division 3 Merit Blackburn & District Bowling League
2006 JT & J Martindale Winners        Mixed Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League D & M Harvey R/U
2007 R B Smith Winner                     David Whittaker Memorial Trophy
2008 J & R B Smith R/U                    Mixed Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League
2008 J & R B Smith R/U                    Registered Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League
2008 R B Smith R/U                          David Whittaker Memorial Trophy
2008 Team R/U                                   Division 2 Blackburn Vets League
2008 Ladies' A R/U                            Division 1 Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2009 Ladies' A Winners                     Coronation Cup Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2009 J Smith Winner                          President's Trophy Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2009 Ladies' A R/U                            Division 1 Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2009 F Almond Winner                      Merit Trophy   Blackburn Vets League
2009 J & W Catterall R/U                  Mixed Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League
2010 Ladies' A Winners                     Coronation Cup Blackburn Ladies' League
2010 J Smith Winner                          President's Trophy Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2010 JT & J Martindale Winners        Mixed Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League
2010 Ladies' A R/U                            Division 1 Blackburn Ladies' Bowling League
2011 Ladies' A Winners                     Coronation Cup Blackburn Ladies' League
2011 J Martindale & R B Smith R/U Reg Doubles Darwen & District Bowling League
2011Blackburn Vets Winners             Division 2 Blackburn Vets League
2011 P Allen Merit Winner                 Division 2 Blackburn Vets League
2011 Ladies' A R/U                            Blackburn Ladies' League
2011 Blackburn A Winners                Div 3 Blackburn & District Bowling League
2011 Darwen A Winners                    Div 3 Darwen & District Bowling League
2011 Ladies' Team R/U                      Ladies' Afternoon League
2012 Darwen A R/U                           Moorfield Trophy Darwen & District Bowling League
2012 Blackburn B R/U                       Division 4 Blackburn & District Bowling League
2012 D Kenyon Merit Winner            Division 4 Blackburn & District Bowling League
2016 Ladies' team R/U                       Blackburn Ladies' League

PRESIDENTS OF BLACKBURN SUBSCRIPTION BOWLING GREEN CLUB

1881-3 Henry Backhouse (councillor & solicitor) 81 Preston New Road
1884-7 John Chamley (wine & spirit merchant) East Bank 26 Shear Bank Road
1888    Alfred Nuttall JP (brewery owner) Shear Bank
1899-1900 William Henry Cunliffe (painter & decorator company) Eldon Place Preston New Road
1901    John Halliday
1902    John Frankland (photographer) 40 Preston New Road
1903    William Spencer Livesey (mill Manager) 20 Shear Brow
1904    Thomas Ferguson
1905    James Livesey (cotton manufacturer) Sunnyhurst Limefield Preston New Road
1906-7 William Bury (brush manufacturer) 81 Alexandra Road
1908    William Henry Grimshaw (alderman & chemist) 3 East Park Road
1909    John Myers (brush maker) Bridge End House 58 Church Street|
1910    James Hargreaves (tobacco wholesaler) Barscroft Meins Road
1911    Richard Birtwistle (cotton manufacturer) Nether1eigh 44 Shear Bank Road
1912    Char1es Baines (hatter & glover) 28 Revidge Road
1913    John William Green (salesman) 23 East Park Road
1914    Thomas Abbott Leaver (painter & decorator) 1 London Road (J Leaver & Sons)
1915    Thomas Sharples (alderman & solicitor) 152 Preston New Road
1916-18 Richard Smith (cotton manufacturer) 271 Preston New Road
1919    James Frankland (quarry master) Whalley New Road
1920    Harold Read (schoolmaster) 107 Langham Road
1921    William Kenyon JP (alderman & billposting manager) 22 Holland Street
1922-23 Robert Ferguson (solicitor) Beardwood 108 Preston New Road
1924    George Rimmer (schoolmaster) 63 East Park Road
1925    John Thomas Rowntree (heald & reed manufacturer) 19 Duke's Brow
1926    Thomas Hargreaves (wholesale tobacconist) Dunedin Billinge Avenue
1927    James Smith (cotton manufacturer) 18 East Park Road
1928    George William Singleton (cotton salesman) 77 Shear Brow
1929    Thomas Stirrup (boot & shoe maker) 33 Wellington Street St John's
1930    Robert Eastwood (clerk)44 Palmer Street
1931    Frank Airey (plumber) 2 Brantfell Road
1932    J Whalley
1933    John Farrow (cashier) 193 London Road
1934    Walter Henry Duckworth (alderman & building contractor) Gadshill Shear Bank Road
1935-6 Char1es Tate (union secretary) 161 Pleckgate Road
1937    George Burke (alderman & cotton manufacturer) West Bank Preston New Road
1938    William Ashworth JP (plumber) 113 Duke's Brow
1939    Walter Dawson (shuttle maker) 44 Wellington Street St John's
1940-1 John Fairhurst (Howarth's) 40 Wellington Street St John's
1942    Joseph Livesey (building contractor) Fox Lease Mollington Road
1943    Alfred Percy Yates (draper) 210 Revidge Road
1944    J Isherwood
1945    William E T Evans (traveller) 8 Strawberry Bank
1946    John William Thomber 55 Pleckgate Road
1947    Frank Robinson (asphalt contractor) 30 East Park Road
1948    William Byrom (auctioneer & valuer) 6 Taunton Road
1949    Robert Marsden (wholesale draper) 7 Azalea Road
1950    A L Wilkinson
1951    Raymond Carter (fertilizer manufacturer) 109 Preston New Road
1952    George B Lewney B Sc (schoolmaster) 28 Albany Road
1953    James Liversedge (boot dealer) 10 King Street
1954    Arthur Greensmith (confectioner) 284 Preston New Road
1955    Francis Ewart Smith (accountant) 10 Osbome Road
1956    Frank H Lloyd (haulier) 104 Lynwood Road
1957    Percival C Smith (house furnisher) 2 East Park Avenue
1958    Chris Maudsley (insurance superintendent) 41 Duke's Brow
1959    William Gill (plumber & sanitary inspector) 7 Shear Bank Gardens
1960    Robert Wilkinson (decorator) 193 London Road
1961    Alan J Meadowcroft (essences manufacturer)
1962    Bert R Nutter (engineer) 79 Yew Tree Drive
1963    Harold Rodwell Petre House Farm Langho
1964    Bruce K Critchley (decorators merchant) Under Billinge
1965    John Fairhurst (Howarths) 40 Wellington Street St John's
1966-7 Geoffrey M Taylor (estate agent) 4 Church Lane Mellor
1968    G Reginald White (Public Health Inspector to Rural Dist Council)
1969    Oscar R T Ashcroft
1970    J Arthur Kenyon
1971    William Akers
1972    Kenneth C Holt
1973    John Harrison
1974    Alan W Forrest
1975    Albert F Harwood
1976    John Curren
1977    Derek A Cooper
1978    Harry Neumark
1979    Arthur Greenhalgh
1980    Stanley W Maidman
1981    Raymond B Smith
1982    Ronald Simms
1983    N Kenneth Riley
1984    David Wilkinson
1985    Donald Riley
1986    Jack Wilkinson
1987    Brian Topham
1988    Geoffrey Kenyon
1989    John T Clough
1990    Peter Allen
1991    Raymond B Smith
1992    Patricia A Riley   first lady president
1993-4 Norman Oldham
1995-6 James Martindale
1997    Doreen Gill
1998    Jean Rushton
1999    Joan Smith
2000    Margaret Curren
2001    Kenneth Elvin
2002    Kenneth Price
2003    Joan Gallimore
2004    Deidre Allen
2005-6 William Catterall
2007    Anne Kinder
2008-9 Denise Harvey
2010-11 Dorothy Kenyon
2012    John T Clough
2013    Norman Oldham
2014    Susan Magee
2015    Terry Hindle
2016    Michael Harvey
2017

List of Blackburn's Bowling Greens

1          Blackburn Subscription Cicely Hole (1749) present green Shear Bank Road 1869
1         ​ Red Lion Snig Brook (1820)
1          Bowling Green St Paul's Street (1820)
1          Thunder Alley (Town Hall Street) 1822 (closed pre. 1848)
1          Burnley Road Bowling Club (post 1911)
3          Corporation Park (1857) first 2 greens opened in 1923
1          Feniscowles & Pleasington Bowling club Livesey Branch Road (opened 16/4/1921)
4          Queen's Park (1887) 2 greens added in1932
3          Roe Lee Park (1923) green opened 30/5/1923
4          Green Park (2 in 1923 with 2 later)
2          Highfield Park (1900)
1 (2)     East Lancashire Club (1878) (green after 1890)
1          Cherry Tree (Scapa) opened 12/6/1920
1          Lower Darwen Memorial (1919)
1          Dugdale Memorial Club (St Philip's) (1921)
1          Witton Subscription (pre. 1931)
1          Audley House Working Men's (1881-closed 2002)
1          St Stephen's (Little Harwood Hall) (pre. 1931)
1          Lower Darwen Memorial Bowling Club (1928)
1          Park Lee Hospital
1          Tramways Dept Accrington Road (1926-35)
1          Alexandra Hotel (pre. 1900)
1          Bowling Green Hotel Eanam (1809)
1          Bowling Green Inn Scotland Road (1874)
1          Butler's Arms Pleasington (1846)
1          Cemetery Hotel Whalley New Road (1931)
1          Cunliffe & Ward Ltd Gate Street
1          Fernhurst Hotel Ewood
1          Florence Hotel Moss Street (pre. 1900-closed aft 1910)
1          George & Dragon Northgate (1807)
1          The Griffin's Head Inn Redlam (1844)
1          Hamilton Arms Hollin Bridge Street (1870)
1          Hole I'th Wall Shear Brow (pre. 1903-1931)
1          Little Harwood Inn Whalley Old Road (1931)
1          Livesey New Inn (Factory Arms Inn) Waterloo Livesey Branch Road (pre. 1890-closed 1930s)
1          Mill Hill Hotel Mill Hill Bridge Street (1902)
1          Old Mother Redcap Accrington Road (1841)
1          Oozehead Inn Manor Road (pre. 1900-1931)
1          Railway Hotel (Pleasington Bowling club) Pleasington (1858)
1          Red Lion Whitebirk (1854)
1          Royal Edward Inn Harwood Street (1910)
1          Royal Park Inn Addison Street (1868)
1          Stanley Arms Garden Street (green on Bridgewater Street) (1868)
1          Private Green Dunsley Pleckgate Road

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