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BRYNCOCH BOWLS CLUB
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HOME PAGE
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Would you like to join Bryncoch Bowls Club?
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Beginners or established players are welcome.
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Just press the email link and get in touch.
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IS IT BOWLING WEATHER
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IN SOUTH WALES
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Main Road Bryncoch (on a wet day)
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BRYNCOCH BOWLS CLUB HOME GREEN AT LLANDARCY, SKEWEN, NEATH
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Founder Members of Bryncoch Bowls Club
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Welcome to the Bryncoch Bowls
Club web pages. We hope to update
the pages often during the summer
months when we are playing. Below
are the badges of our club and an
introduction to how we started and
when, written by one of our founder
members Ron Michael
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Bryncoch Bowls Club was started from an idea by Ron Michael and John Thomas in 1988. (Sadly John Thomas
Died in 1997 aged 60). Len Amphlett was also one of the first to become involved with the club and it was his
enthusiasm to start the bowls club along with Ron and John that it finally got off the ground. They placed
posters around the village to see what kind of interest there was for the start up of such a club. The first meeting
held was at the Lamb & Flag 12 people turned up so it was an encouraging turn out. It was decided to go ahead
with the idea. The question was where to play. Neath Council offered greens at Dyfed Road Pontyrhdfen or
Pontadawe. It was suggested by Ron Haley that we contact B.P to see if we could share the Green at Llandarcy,
B.P Llandarcy Bowls club asked us to a meeting where they said they were willing to share the green with
Bryncoch. As this was a private green we applied to join the West Wales Private Greens League. And was
accepted in 1989.In the summer of 1989, now with a membership of around 24 we played friendlies. In 1990 we
played in the league for the first time. Now we had to decide what badge would best represent the club. The first
idea put forward by Walter Mayers, the Red Admiral butterfly. He knew that Alfred Russell Wallace lodged at
Bryncoch Farm for two years to do a paper on the flora and fauna in the Neath Valley and he studied the native
Red Admiral at Bryncoch. That was our tie badge for ten years until we changed this year For the blazer badge,
that incorporates the Red Admiral the parish church of St Matthew's and bowls.
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