pfel01
Bowls
Colliery Hotel, Bowling Ground
54.862760, -1.605171
Pelton Fell
Opened:
c1920s
Closed:
Unknown
Reclaimed
Condition:
Home Teams/Clubs:
Last Updated:
2 May 2024
HER Description
NEHL - Bowling competitions were held "in a field behind the Colliery Hotel" from at least 1921.
Bowling handicaps were advised by Mr T Favell and Mr Dick Taylor in 1921 here. The entrance fee was 6d, confined to a two miles radius, with 44 heats. The prize money and specials amounted to £15 8 6.
The field is likely that which the Stella Gill Industrial Estate now occupies. There will have been no formal ground, so no remains today.
Ordnance Survey, 1946
The site today, which is now Stella Gill Industrial Estate. Photograph taken in January 2023
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The field can be seen in the centre of this aerial shot from the 1940s. Source: Google Earth
Historic Environment Records
Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past
Tyne and Wear: Sitelines
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