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Old 29th May 2019, 23.20:33   #643-0 (permalink)
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Default Re: The sad case of a founding members and player of Wrexham Football Club (Massive history thread!)

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As can be seen from the attached OS maps, the kiosk/pavillion was built sometime between 1898 and 1909. The 1898 map shows no kiosk whereas subsequent maps show the kiosk in place until it was finally demolished. The 1912 map also shows that a gate was added, onto the bowling green. The 1939 attachment confirms that this was the same kiosk seen in later photographs, and strongly indicates that the bowling green was introduced on The Racecourse between 1898 and 1909 (as per Mr Wonderful's earlier suspicion)
More confirmation that The Turf Bowling Club was in existence prior to the commencement of the first world war in 1914

'Lieutenant William Noel Soames died in Minia, Egypt on 18 May 1916
Second and eldest surviving son of Mr Frederick William Soames, Bryn Estyn Hall, near Wrexham. Before the war he was manager of Messrs F W Soames and Co Brewery, Wrexham. Also vice-president of Wrexham Football Club, president of the Turf Bowling Club and a Freemason.'


https://www.shropshirearchives.org.u...916_5_4_345249

https://newspapers.library.wales/vie...51/4242057/35/

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