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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.


Memories
Jan 29, 2024
The History of Saturday Bowling - Part 2
Dave Parkin's three-part potted history of Saturday bowling covers the period 1943-1969 and the first real change in its format.
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Memories
Jan 28, 2024
The History of Saturday bowling - Part 1
Part 1 of Dave Parkin's trilogy on the 127 years of History of Saturday Bowling in Huddersfield covers the years 1896-1942.
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Memories
Jan 26, 2024
Mystery photo possible answers
A follow-up to the query about Barbara Peacock's family photo from around 1925 and Dave Parkin has been digging in The Examiner archives.
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Memories
Jan 22, 2024
Help fill the gaps in this family history
An old bowling photograph from around 1925 with a number of gaps which we would like to fill, Can you help?
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Memories
Jan 20, 2024
Winter Bowling in Huddersfield Part 7
The 7th and final episode in Dave Parkin's pocket history of Winter bowling in Huddersfield featuring The Griffin.
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Memories
Jan 19, 2024
Winter Bowling in Huddersfield 2010-2023
Part 6 brings the history lesson bang up to date as Dave Parkin tells of the loss of the King of the Griffin, Paul Sigsworth.
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Memories
Jan 18, 2024
Winter Bowling in Huddersfield 2000-2009
As we move into a new millennium a list of familiar winners to the top Griffin competitions but the Young Pretender emerges on the scene.
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Memories
Jan 17, 2024
Winter Bowling in Huddersfield - the 1990's
Part 4: The 1990's saw the greatest threat to the future of bowling at The Griffin with the pub sold and the ending of the green lease.
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Memories
Jan 16, 2024
Winter Bowling in Huddersfield Part 3
Dave Parkin takes his story about the rise of winter bowling at The Griffin into the 1980's and the arrival of two rival competitions.
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Memories
Jan 15, 2024
Winter Bowling in the 1970's
Part 2 of our week-long record of bowling at The Griffin covers the 'strike years' in the 1970's.
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Memories
Jan 15, 2024
How old is your green?
A club-by-club listing of the opening dates of greens in the Huddersfield area which shows the oldest local green being 146 years old.
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Memories
Jan 14, 2024
Winter Bowling in Huddersfield Part 1
The first in a week-long daily series of articles about the introduction of winter bowling in Huddersfield. Part 1 covers the years 1967-69.
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Memories
Jan 14, 2024
Another noisy club story
Another noisy bowling club story but this one is about a Huddersfield club with a noise problem.
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Memories
Jan 4, 2024
3 Merit winners from 40 years ago
I am once again indebted to Dave Parkin for sharing this Examiner press report on 3 Huddersfield Merit Finals from 1984.
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Memories
Jan 3, 2024
Name the Roller's Green - Answers & Winners
The answers to all 7 teasers when we challenged you to name the homes of these 7 redundant rollers. Well done to our two winners.
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Memories
Jan 2, 2024
Last call for all 7 Name the Roller's Green entries
Last call for entries for unique Name the Roller's Green competition. Entries close at 10pm tonight. All the answers online tomorrow.
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Memories
Jan 1, 2024
Huddersfield WMC stories
Memories from the 1970's as Dave Parkin digs out stories from the Huddersfield Working Mens Club Merit competitions.
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Memories
Jan 1, 2024
Name the Roller's Green No.7
Final challenge in our Christmas week competition to name the green where this redundant roller is seeing out its days.
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Memories
Dec 31, 2023
Name the Roller's Green No.6
Time to identify the home green of this discarded roller and this is one of the most difficult ones you are going to face this week.
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Memories
Dec 30, 2023
Linthwaite Hall stories from the 70's
How things have chainged (hopefully) in the last 50 years as this tale from Bill Blackburn exemplifies along with one from Dave Parkin.
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