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Confession time - quite a lot of years ago, when I was a member of Kirkwall Bowling Club, I borrowed a dozen old photos that had been found in a cupboard in the clubhouse so that I could take them to the Photo Archive to be copied. I recently found to my embarrassment that I still had them (sorry! I'll return them next time I'm in Kirkwall). At the time I spoke to various people and got as many names as I could of those in the pictures and wrote them down on separate sheets of paper, but I think the Photo Archive must have kept them. But if anyone can name these people, please do so. I can remember one or two names but that's about all. Note to the right of the picture a man in plus-fours playing tennis. The date is estimated.
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While looking for something else I found a list of names for a Bowling Club photo published in the Orkney Herald on 23rd May 1934 which I think must be this one. They are (left to right) Back row: J S Flett, J W Inkster, A F Kemp, J Borwick, W Muir, J R Miller(Vice-president), G Swanson, T H Dearness, and T S Garrioch; Second row: W Scott, Bailie Maxwell, J Anderson, W F Miller, J Corsie, D Wooldrage, senr., R Halcro, J R Williamson, A Pottinger, and J Bremner; Sitting: Mrs W F Miller, D Meil, Mrs D Flett, Mrs J Muir, Mrs Delday, Mrs M Grieve, Mrs R Cromarty(captain Ladies' Section), Mrs J Mowat, Mrs J Anderson, Mrs T Hutchison, Miss R Rendall, J Nicholson, and D Chrystall; In front: T Gourlay, D Wooldrage, jr., D Ross, A Allan(President), W M Hay, D B Peace, J Mowat, and Ronald F Slater.
Added by Paul Sutherland on 15 September 2007
Very interesting to see my grandfather and great grandfather in one picture, especially as I had never seen a picture of my great grandfather before. I believe there's a set of my grandfather's bowls on display in the new clubhouse and they are quite different to the bowls they play with nowadays.
Added by Kevin Wooldrage on 21 September 2007
CAN SOMEONE HELP WITH THE OPENING DATE FOR THE KIRKWALL BOWLING CLUB?
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