Spalding Cycling Club held its annual presentation evening for members, with awards given to cyclists aged between 12 and 80 meeting at the town’s Royal Mail Cart pub. The youth awards included a double for the Bowser family, with Velvet Bowser picking up the girls’ best all-rounder five and ten-mile …
Read More »Royal Mail Cart’s quartet are national runners-up
Royal Mail Cart’s Ruby Hill, Chelsea Tomlin, Ashley Caress and Martin Spencer represented Lincolnshire at the national championships in Leamington Spa in the mixed fours discipline. The quartet played through a series of qualifying rounds throughout the season and booked their place with an impressive win against a set from …
Read More »South Holland stars help Lincolnshire to Walker Cup win
Three Spalding and two Holbeach bowlers were in the Lincolnshire team which won the Walker Cup (inter-county double rink) at the national championships at Leamington Spa on Sunday. Royal Mail Cart’s Ruby Hill and Chelsea Tomlin, Carter’s Park duo Annie Dunham and Louise Catchpole, and Castle player Lucy Cooke helped …
Read More »Spalding and Holbeach players to represent county at EBF national finals
A pairing from Holbeach United Services Club will represent Lincolnshire in the English Bowling Federation national finals next week. Terry Crane and Sandra Hammond compete in the Senior Mixed Pairs at Skegness on Tuesday. They won through at Lincoln after first seeing off Peter Schofield and Brenda Hornsby (Waltham Park) …
Read More »Moulton Harrox duo replicate grandma’s county win from 45 years earlier
Cousins Marion Perkins and Julie Hicks won the Thornally Trophy at the Lincolnshire Women’s Bowls Federation finals in Lincoln – exactly 45 years after their grandma Olive Biggadike won the three bowl rinks competition. Back in 1974, Olive won the trophy with M Cottam and V Grooby of Royal Mail …
Read More »Spalding players celebrate three victories at county bowls finals
Spalding players won three events at the EBF county finals in Lincoln last weekend. It means there will be good representation from the town at the national finals at Skegness, week commencing August 19. The Royal Mail Cart team of Paul Caress, son Ashley Caress and Martin Spencer won the …
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