Now, I don’t remember the bowling green on the Rec, by Beech Road, but lots of people over the years have talked about it.
I have always thought it was on the south side of the Rec, close to Wilton Road, but not so.
It occupied a space in the north west corner, and this I know because I am looking at the OS map for Beech Road, dated 1956.
I know the bowling green was not in the original plan for the Recreational Ground and had disappeared by the 1970s.
Just when it was deemed no longer a recreational asset will be down to people’s memories and a trawl of subsequent maps.
And back then there was that other bowling green beside Cross Road, it became the car park for the Irish Club.
All of which leaves me to wait for comments of those who remember the bowling green on the Rec and when it disappeared.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; detail from the OS map for south Chorlton, 1956, "Courtesy of Manchester Archives+ Town Hall Photographers' Collection", https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/albums/72157684413651581?fbclid=IwAR0t6qAJ0-XOmfUDDqk9DJlgkcNbMlxN38CZUlHeYY4Uc45EsSMmy9C1YCk
It occupied a space in the north west corner, and this I know because I am looking at the OS map for Beech Road, dated 1956.
I know the bowling green was not in the original plan for the Recreational Ground and had disappeared by the 1970s.
Just when it was deemed no longer a recreational asset will be down to people’s memories and a trawl of subsequent maps.
And back then there was that other bowling green beside Cross Road, it became the car park for the Irish Club.
All of which leaves me to wait for comments of those who remember the bowling green on the Rec and when it disappeared.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; detail from the OS map for south Chorlton, 1956, "Courtesy of Manchester Archives+ Town Hall Photographers' Collection", https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/albums/72157684413651581?fbclid=IwAR0t6qAJ0-XOmfUDDqk9DJlgkcNbMlxN38CZUlHeYY4Uc45EsSMmy9C1YCk
I am sure for a while there were two in the Rec, the one in your map was the 'posh' one and one in front of it (towards Beech road) was public. That one went first by being turned into a sort of formal garden, followed by the second going and then the shelter :(
ReplyDeleteI moved to Chorlton (Provis Rd) in 1958. Used to play football on The Rec in the early/mid ‘60s and do not remember the second bowling green. Our ‘pitch’ ran the length of the rec alongside Cross Rd (jumpers for goalposts)!
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