Ormskirk Bowling Club

Eric Barklem’s funeral service will be held in the chapel at West Lancashire Crematorium and Cemetery, Pippin Street, Burscough at 2pm on Thursday 18th September. A wake will follow at Aughton Institute

The Club is very sad to hear that Eric Barklem passed away peacefully yesterday morning. Our sincere condolences go to Angie and all the family.

Eric was a stalwart of the Club since the Halton Castle team moved over to join us. No job was too big or small for Eric. As well as being a prime mover in improving our grass green and being our green keeper until he fell ill, he also undertook a myriad of other jobs, from utilising his engineering expertise on repairing machinery to unblocking the toilets. Whenever you were at the Club you were sure to see Eric undertaking some task or other.

Eric was always encouraging to our new and junior bowlers, and also took an active part in the Club’s Committee. As well as spending so much time helping at our Club, he was involved with local bowling leagues – he was Secretary of the Ormskirk League and, until a couple of years ago, the Secretary of the Aughton League.

You will be much missed Eric, and you are a massive loss to the local bowling scene and to our club in particular. You leave behind so many friends and family in our Club.

Funeral arrangements will be posted once we have further details

1st Prize Ted Baker £35

2nd Prize Kevin Maher £25

Congratulations to this month’s winners. Your prizes are on the way. The draw was conducted at Wednesday’s Aughton Vets match by Dave Croft . To those existing and new members who would like to support the club, details to join and pay £5 a month per ticket are on the 100 Club tab on the club website. Your contributions are/will be greatly appreciated.

We had a good turnout of 36 members yesterday for the above competition. The weather was kind and a round robin tournament was played in two groups with the winners of each group progressing to the final.

In the first group the runners up by 4 points were Steve James and Graham Kilpatrick and the winners were Margaret Copeland and Ted Baker. The second group runners up by a large margin were Kevin Maher and Nigel Whitehurst with the runaway winners being Mike Fagan and Peter Grimes.

The final was closely contested but eventually Mike and Peter prevailed. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who took part with a special mention to Ian Gill and our Chairman, Steve James, for organising and co-ordinating the event.

We will be holding the above competition for all members with a 1pm start, please be there 12.45pm so that we can start promptly. No registration needed just turn up on the day.

The format will be a pairs competition with pairs drawn on the day although if family members are playing they can stay as a pair. Group round robin tournament leading to a final.

£3 entry fee per player.

Hopefully all the games will be on the grass green but we will use both greens if the event is well attended.

Hope to see many of you there.

Just a reminder that here is a big bowls game on at Burscough Cricket Club today (6 July), with Lancs v Cheshire rolling off at 2pm. Come down and sample the fantastic atmosphere of a county match. Entry just £1 with a programme. Lots of local players in the team to cheer on!

1st Prize Haydn Preece £35

2nd Prize Kevin Maher £25

Congratulations to this month’s winners. Your prizes are on the way. The draw was conducted at Tuesday’s Ormskirk League match by Frank Johnson . To those existing and new members who would like to support the club, details to join and pay £5 a month per ticket are on the 100 Club tab on the club website. Your contributions are/will be greatly appreciated.

The grass green was sprayed this morning (Friday) please do not to play on it until noon and then (after noon) please wash your hands after playing.

You can now start ordering our club kit once more – go to the Members tab of our website to find the ordering page or click here to go directly to the page. Once we have minimum quantity of orders (16) we will proceed.

1st Prize Richard Snape £35

2nd Prize Keith Knaggs £25

Congratulations to this month’s winners. Your prizes are on the way. The draw was conducted at Wednesday’s Vets match by Nick Slater . To those existing and new members who would like to support the club, details to join and pay £5 a month per ticket are on the 100 Club tab on the club website. Your contributions are/will be greatly appreciated.