The Northcote Bowling Club was situated next to the Northcote Lawn Tennis Club on the old gasometer site in Little Shoal Bay on land leased from the Birkenhead-Northcote Gas Company. The bowling club moved there from its original Princes Street site. The formal opening of the new facilities took place on 6 Nov 1909. [Infomation supplied by Northcote Library, 2004]
Northcote Bowling Club
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Opening day at the Birkenhead and Northcote Bowling Green, Northcote, Auckland
Date: 1909
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-001682-G
Description: View of men and women playing tennis on grass courts and men playing lawn bowls on the green behind. The formal opening took place on Saturday, 6 Nov 1909. Taken by William A Price. Duplicate copy held in Northcote Library Photographic Collection. N/0108-018 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Opening day Birkenhead & Northcote Bowling Green, 1068 William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches