Shepshed Town has “one of the best bowling greens in the County”. We are a competitive club, entering many local leagues and competitions each season. The Club remains aware of it’s roots and actively encourages friendly games between local teams to enable the less competitive bowler to participate in the sport.
Always happy to welcome new bowlers – we have members who help and advise both newcomers and established bowlers. The Club is our Social space and we often stay together after games and during the closed season we enjoy monthly quiz nights. These prove very popular with members and non members. In the summer, Friday night 'Chummy Nights' give the opportunity for some social bowling and refreshments.
Our Club facilities enhance it's social life, with a new bar, kitchen and facilities for disabled guests and visitors. Our Club house is available for hire by the public, maintaining the links that were forged between the Club and the wider community at the very beginning. More information found below.
Please contact us using our form. The Club Secretary will respond as soon as possible.
Travelling along A512 from Loughborough towards Ashby de la Zouch or from M1 Junction 23 away from Loughborough. Take RIGHT turn at second set traffic lights (Charnwood Road). Carry on downhill, past Armstrong Mill on left, past Tesco Express on right, down towards ASDA store on left. OUr club is OPPOSITE ASDA STORE. The car park is small, please take care.
FULL PLAYING MEMBERSHIP |
£120.00 |
Full Members take priority on the Green. Associate Members may use the Green for roll-ups restricted to once per week during the season and accompanied by a Full Member. Associate Members and Social Members are not entitled to enter Club, County or National Competitions or play in any friendly games or League Competitions. Associate or Social Members may not hold office or serve on Committees or sub-Committees other than Bar/Social Committees. |
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP |
£37.00 |
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SOCIAL MEMBERSHIP | £12.00 |
We have supported our immediate local community by installing a Defibrillator Cabinet on the outside of the clubhouse at the end of our driveway entrance. A First Responders instruction sheet is included in the Cabinet and copies are around our clubhouse.
Many Club Members have been trained to use this equipment in support of our community.
In the late 1800’s there were two bowling greens in Shepshed, one at the “Bottom Green” by the side of the old Britannia Inn (now demolished), and the other at the “Top Green” behind the Pied Bull Public House. It is believed that this may have originally been a farm and the farmers and their workers gathered (especially at Wakes time) to play a game of bowls. Unfortunately the fate of this Club is lost in the mists of time.
More organised bowling was taking place at the “Bottom Green” and in 1913 the Club had to find new premises to make way for the new cinema to be built. Shepshed Town Bowls Club, as it was now known, found its way to Charnwood Road where it has flourished ever since.
Always outgoing and socially minded the Club contributed to the local community during the 1st World War by entertaining wounded soldiers stationed at Garendon Park. The club continued to flourish over the years winning many trophies and producing players who played for the County, and even some who went on to play for their Country - a notable achievement for such a small community. In 1962 ladies were allowed to become members and the ladies section has proved to be a real asset to the Club, again producing top class bowlers who have played for both County and Country. National trophies have been won by our players.