The Jack Christie Triples got a nice day for a change all players were full of good spirits. A long day brought Garry Harrison, Gordon Wilson jun, and Gavin Smith in the final playing Mike Drummond, Larry Sorrell, and Davie Scott.. Davy Scott the forgotten man thought he was playing with Allan Mitchell but he … Read more
Northern Fours are through to Semi Final One Bowl Scottie hero to get Northern through to play Tanfield at Queensberry .
This weeks’ report took a little while to compile as the writer had to compose himself after the fiasco of Wednesday evening. In a match that the 2nds were desperate to win the rain, which has held sway through most days of the season but left the evening bowlers largely alone, finally arrived and with … Read more
Northern Top Five travelled to Carrick Knowe on Sunday but were not at the races no score cards available good luck to Carrick Knowe in the next round.
16 members turned up to play the Bobby Loch 3 Bowl Singles competition. A far cry from its early days when we played over two Sundays! Lack of numbers notwithstanding however a good day was had by all. The players were drawn in to 4 sections playing 3 games of 6 ends each. At the … Read more
A big night for the Northern with Maitland visiting and the chance to close the gap and lift our hopes of survival. Changes were forced on the team late on with Hugh Hilson having to call off and being replaced with Keith Smith as a debut skip and Willie Robb also being called into the … Read more
Hi Guy’s , respectful request from our Esteemed President, I’m sure your all aware that we are pursuing prices and getting estimates for the various tasks involved in doing the Green banking’s etc, this is still not as yet a fore gone conclusion but for anyone who Gordon has not managed to get a letter … Read more
A short trip in a North Westerly direction to Maitland for the 3rd last game of the season and one to quickly forget as only really Jamie’s rink and Tubby’s deserve pass marks for two near misses, Jim Bathgate was on R2 and with Richie Newall at Lead Craig Snoddy 2nd and Larry at 3rd … Read more
Our opponents tonight Queensberry have had the spoils in our encounters so far this year and after the visit down to Granton a few weeks ago and last Friday nights Edin Cup match we are yet to record a winning rink against them yet,however our recent league form has been reasonably good and we welcomed … Read more
On, probably, the best weather night of the bowling season so far and that with only 4 games left it was up to close neighbours Tanfield and the chance to build on last week’s success against Summerside. Stan Christie’s rink got the guys off to a winning start but that was countered by Hugh Hilson’s … Read more
