WELCOME TO CLYDEBANK BOWLING CLUB
The story of Clydebank Bowling Club is also the story of industrial Scotland
and the game of bowls in Scotland. When the club was founded in 1884 it
was a time of industrial expansion when heavy industry was flourishing,
when new industrial towns like Clydebank
were growing up either from smaller communities or as in Clydebank’s
case from green fields and when the workers in these industries and the
citizens of these towns were seeking recreation and bowls was helping to
fulfil that need.
When the Annual General Meeting of 1895 is reported fully, the club had
already been established for 11 years on the site which it occupied
continuously for 100 years, with the west green as the one green and the
Club-house or Bowling Pavilion as it was then sometimes called, the small
Club-house of today.
Clydebank Bowling Club Clubhouse 1899- 1907
1907 – New Clubhouse at Clydebank Bowling Club
A handsome new clubhouse in connection with Clydebank Bowling Club was opened on Saturday afternoon in the presence of a large gathering including among the latter representatives from many other clubs. The building which has its main entrance facing John Knox Street is of red freestone and brick, faced with rough cast. The clubhouse is capable of comfortably seating 200 persons, while there are also a smoke room, a committee room, billiard room for two tables and a room and kitchen house for the green keeper. Mr Thomas McGuire the President of the club in presenting Mr. David McGhee, manager of Clydebank yard, with a silver key to open the clubhouse, said the club owed its inception to Messrs James and George Thompson who in 1884 laid out the green for the benefit of their workers on ground granted by Messrs Hamilton of Cochno. In 1896 additional ground was taken and a second green formed and last year members decided to proceed with the erection of a new clubhouse, better suited for the accommodation of the large and increasing membership. The result is the building which is now completed, and of which the estimated cost was £1850. Throughout the 23 years of its existence the club has maintained an honourable position in the bowling world and many of its members have been recognised as excellent exponents of the game. The clubhouse having been formally declared open, light refreshments were served to the company. Mr William Mark vice president presented to Mrs McGhee a silver jack and the first bowl of the season was thrown amid applause and the green was declared open.
Extract from Evening Times Monday 6th May 1907
