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Levante Lawn Bowls  - A "potted history"

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Bowling has been played in Spain for at least 30 years, when hotels started to expand the tourist trade, particularly to the British market, and realised that Bowls was a popular sport in the U.K. and started to provide greens for them. At first, they played a variety of surfaces, grass, carpet and even hard sand or clay!

 

However, it was always been confined to the coastal areas, particularly the Costa del Sol and the Costa Blanca.

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A Committee was elected in 1985 to organise lawn bowls and the first President was Owen Jones, who bowled in England and Miraflores. It was called LBAE (Bowling Association of Espana) and with representatives from each club started a league and regulated tournaments. It was not registered under the FEB and became the NEC in 1995 under John Dugdale for about 6 years. First printed Minutes were of a meeting on 12th May 2002 followed by 8th May 2003 - initially meeting once a year.

John Young then came on board and a first meeting of the new Committee was 22nd November 2003 and from then meetings were held every 3 months and the NEC became more structured.  

 

Bowls is part of the Federación Española de Bolos and was officially recognised as a national sport on April 10th. 1986.

 

In January 1987 the President of the Spanish Bowling Federation legalised bowls clubs and licences were issued.

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* Content source - Levante Lawn Bowls website

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