Redditch Bowling Club

Our Club was founded in 1946, the founder members laying their own green. No records for the years 1946 - 1975 exist, so the number of members and rate of subscriptions during those years is unknown. However, the records do show that in 1976 the annual subscriptions were £2 per member and a further 20 years later they had been raised to £20 per member {reduced for members receiving a state pension}.

In the early days, to become a member of the bowling club, men had to be an employee of the High Duty Alloys Company, {Ladies usually got involved in catering} but this is no longer the case. Our Bowling Club is now a fully mixed membership, welcoming ladies as well as gentlemen bowlers along with youngsters of all ages.

In the late 1980’s, the local British Aluminium Bowling Club was disbanded due to the closure of the bowling facilities and many of the members joined High Duty Alloys Bowling Club.

Until 2015 Barry Hay was our longest serving member and worked at High Duty Alloys until he retired. Barry was a bowling club member for 50 years and enjoyed many Club and County competitions successes.

The Club has had many County Competition successes in the past 75 years, the first of which was in our foundation year, winning the County Fours Competition.

The Club’s most senior members to date are Jim Gibbons and Eddie Brown who have had many Club and County competition successes between them. Jim has held many officer positions in his years with our club and still organises our club competitions in honour of past members.