Winter 2025 Social Season

🎉 The Winter Social Season is officially underway! 🎉
We kicked things off in style with the fabulous Shannon Bryden last Saturday — and there’s plenty more fun ahead! ❄️✨
🧠 PBC Winter Quiz Nights
Our first quiz night is this Friday at 7:30pm!
Next quiz nights:
📅 Friday 14th November
📅 Friday 16th January
📅 Friday 13th February
📅 Friday 13th March
🎶 Music Socials
💃 80’s Party Night – Saturday 1st November, 7:30pm
Dress up is optional but highly encouraged! 😎🎤
🎵 Sunday 9th November, 2–6pm
Enjoy an afternoon of fantastic music and dancing with the fabulous Alan Parker!
🥂 Ladies’ Christmas Prosecco Shopping Afternoon – Sunday 16th November, 1–5pm
A perfect day of festive treats, shopping, and bubbles! 🎁✨
📋 The sign-up sheet is now up for both music socials — don’t miss out ..

Winter 2025 Club Opening Hours

Please note that from the 1st October, the winter club opening hours will be as follows:-

Tuesday 12 until 5pm

Thursday 12 until 5pm

Friday 6.30 until midnight

Sunday 7pm until 11pm.

The building will be locked outwith these dates unless there is a function or social event organised.

The Committee

Presentation Night 2025

What a wonderful evening celebrating the achievements of all our bowlers—both within the club and beyond. The clubhouse was buzzing, packed with people, and the atmosphere was electric as the presentations unfolded.
Matt, our ever-reliable photographer, DJ, and compère, kept the crowd entertained in his trademark style. It wasn’t just the usual singers who took to the mic either—the younger members proved they’ve got talent too, impressing everyone with their performances and delighting the audience.
A huge thank you goes to the food and drink teams, who kept everyone well looked after throughout the night.
Now we can close the lockers, put the bowls away, and take a well-earned rest—until we do it all again next year!
Head to the Gallery to see a selection of last night’s photos.

GREEN CLOSURE DAY SATURDAY 4 OCT 25

It is intended to have a green closing down event on the morning of Sat 4 Oct.
This involves the removal of the mats from the ditches, taking the score boards down, putting the benches into the hut and a general tidying of areas around the club. To enable this to be done successfully it needs as many as possible able-bodied men and women to assist.
It is intended to meet at 10 am Sat 4th and with enough bodies the work will be completed by 12 pm.

We look forward to seeing you.

 

Presentation Night

Just a reminder that our presentation night is Saturday the 27th of September. Could members and their guests please add their name to the sheet in the clubhouse corridor if they are wishing to attend. 7pm start, with a buffet and disco afterwards. Raffle prizes are welcome on the night.

Under 25 International Series Report

Congratulations to Jamie Noon and his team mates for winning the gents under 25 international series this weekend at Northfield. The gents put in some great performances to get over the line across the weekend, finished by a fine display to beat England in the final game today to get the gold medal. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be for Rebecca Houston and her team mates, as they just feel short on getting the gold medal and had to settle for silver. Despite their best efforts in the last session against England, a 5-5 draw saw them just miss out by 6 shots to win the gold medal, after being tied on points with England. The ladies fought right to the very end and it couldn’t have been closer. Well done to Jamie and Rebecca for having a great series, and well done to Colin Noon for helping the teams as one of the coach’s for the event. It was a tough shift for the teams and coach’s this weekend with difficult weather conditions and long days, but all they did themselves, families and our club very proud

Ladies Tuesday Group

The PBC Ladies Tuesday Group will be starting up again on Tuesday 7th October at 1345(1400 start).  There is a full and varied programme to take us up to the end of March next year.  The first week we will be talking about ‘Summer Memories’ and the following three weeks we will have speakers covering a variety of topics.  If you have never been to the Ladies Tuesday Group and are a member of PBC, you are warmly invited.  We meet weekly with a £1.00 contribution per week for tea/coffee.  We don’t have speakers or activities every week, usually every fortnight with the other Tuesday being called a ‘Catch Up’ where members talk, some knit or play carpet bowls.  You will be provided with a printed syllabus outlining the programme until
the end of March 2026

Bickerton Trophy 2025

September 6th

BICKERTON TROPHY

What a day of bowling!
As Club President Bryan said during the trophy presentation, “It was a green full of young, nearly young, and no-longer-young bowlers,” — and the talent, skill, and expertise shone through right to the very end.
The semi-finals saw Team Jamie N take on Team Emily H, and Team Jamie H face off against the Charleston BC team. Both matches were closely contested, but the final end between Jamie H and Charleston was an absolute nail-biter — down to a measure that saw Charleston edge through to the final against Emily’s team.
The final was nip and tuck all the way, but in the end, it was Team Emily who came out on top to lift the trophy! ????
A fantastic PBC event — once again!
A huge thank you to the Bickerton family, represented yesterday by Craig, for their continued and generous support of the club.
Of course, these events wouldn’t be possible without the amazing help behind the scenes:
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Thank you all! x
A selection of photos have been added to the Gallery page