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HuddWeb is the website for the Huddersfield Winter League and the unofficial website for the Veterans League as well as being for news from all Huddersfield crown green bowling clubs.


Final day of the 2018 season
The final day of the 2018 Veterans League season was captured in print in the Examiner in the days when a Thursday meant it was bowling news
Memories
Mar 23
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February 2019: HDVBA Newsletter
Ten new teams signed up to play in the 2019 Veterans League and the monthly newsletter carried the full story.
Memories
Mar 21
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Year 2018: Veterans League competitions
Memories from 7 years ago by looking at the August 2018 version of the HDVBA Newsletter.
Memories
Mar 20
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Year 2017: The HDVBA Newsletter
I've always considered transparency and good communications as important for any League and a newsletter was a good means of doing both.
League News
Mar 18
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Year 2000: Birth of the Federation of Bowling
The introduction of the Federation of Crown Green Bowling was everywhere except Huddersfield. Why was that?
Memories
Mar 16
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Kirklees sports blueprint 2015
Ten years ago Kirklees Council paid for a full review of their sporting facilities which produced a 110-page report. Your copy is here.
Memories
Mar 13
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Is bowling too cheap to survive?
Bill Blackburn turns to reviewing the cost of joining a bowling club and asks if bowling is under-priced,
Bowling News
Mar 11
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15 Years-old Champion-of-Champions
The 1975 Huddersfield Champion-of-Champions was a 15-years-old schoolboy. What a story!
Memories
Mar 10
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Waterloo 2003 - the beginning of the end
The writing was on the wall for the rocky future of the Blackpool Waterloo after it all blew up in 2003.
Memories
Mar 10
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Year 2001: Smoking on the green
A new rule on smoking on the green compared with how such things were viewed 24 years ago.
Memories
Mar 9
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Two new competitions for the new Millennium
A gap in press records results in a detour back to the year 2000 to pick up the story of local bowling history in the new Millennium.
Memories
Mar 8
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Year 2006: Three Finals Day scorecards
Finals Day of the Huddersfield Champion-of-Champions and the top two Yorkshire CCGBA team competitions.
Memories
Mar 7
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Year 2004: News from Halifax & Scarborough
The 21 Years history series moves on to 2004 with very different press coverage from Halifax and Scarborough.
Memories
Mar 5
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50 Years Ago at the start of a new season
The start of the 1975 bowling season and Peter Muff looks at the Huddersfield League line-ups as well as Meltham and Lindley Lib news.
Memories
Mar 5
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Year 2003: BCGBA Finances under scrutiny
How should the BCGBA judge itself on how successful they are? Should it be how much money they have in the bank or a different measure?
Memories
Mar 4
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Year 2002: Roy Sutton BCGBA Veterans Champion
Press coverage of Huddersfield bowler Roy Sutton winning a BCGBA prestigious title in 2002.
Memories
Mar 3
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Gledhill Sports bowling green 50 years ago
Another dip back in time to 1975. Do you remember Gledhill Sports BC or a time when over 400 bowlers entered a local competition?
Memories
Mar 2
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Year 2001: The Yorkshire Handicap
The matchday programme and score records for the 2001 Yorkshire Handicap held at Spen Victoria with ample local interest.
Memories
Mar 2
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Year 2000: British Parks v British Federation split
Our new series covers the first 21 years of bowling in the 21st Century with a Yorkshire confrontation on administration rights in 2000.
Memories
Mar 1
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