Eddlewood bowlers' major milestone

Apr 24 2008

EDDLEWOOD Bowling Club celebrated its centenary year on Saturday.

Members of the club attended the celebration which followed the green’s opening for the new season.

South Lanarkshire Provost Russell Clearie, MP Jimmy Hood, MSP Tom McCabe, Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire Gilbert Cox, Lanarkshire Bowling Association President David McDonald and representatives from the Scottish Bowling Association were there to mark the club’s 100th birthday.

The green was originally built by the coal miners who worked in the local collieries and work started in 1907.

The land was donated by local land and collieries owner Thomas Watson.

Squads of workmen from the collieries’ nightshift teams for two hours a night were granted permission to dig and level the ground for a bowling green.

The green was laid on January 24, 1908, and officially opened on July 4 of that year by the mine-owning Watson family of Neilsland House in Hamilton.