News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 18th Year

Issue

Issue No.

12

Date Released

Aug 1965

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. National Story - Transport Today
• 2. Lincolnshire - Gently Does It
• 3. Scotland - On the Mat
• 4. National Story - NCB - TV

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

NoS synopsis: Indoor bowling green at Blantyre, Scotland
NCB Commentary - You might think this was a factory; but you’d be wrong.
Go inside, through the swing doors, and you can’t believe your eyes, there’s a complete forty by forty yard, seven-rink, bowling-green.
It’s Ladies, this afternoon, and in Scotland, believe men, the ladies know how to play bowls.
This Indoor Bowling Green is at Blantyre, and way put up by the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation. It isn’t really grass, of course, it’s a jut carpet on an adjustable floor.
Just outside is the regular bowling green - but not today, thank you.
It’s not surprising that Indoor Bowling is sweeping Scotland.
All over the country Greens are being built by existing Outdoor Bowling clubs.
There are already Indoor Bowling Leagues.
John Leggett is the Rink Manager at Blantyre. His Club has around 800 members - not all playing members, because the Green makes a good Social Centre, too - where you can have a drink, or bite to eat, or you can just watch - and criticise.
Yes, Indoor Bowling has come to stay. The most serious bowlers agree that this new development is good for the sport. Fixtures need no longer be at the mercy of the climate. In fact the season can last all the year round.

Keywords

Sport

Locations

Scotland; Blantyre

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Films on Coal Catalogue   1969, p.50
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963

Credits:

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit