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GMSMBA host Singles and Pairs Short Mat Championships at Etherow IBC
Greater Manchester Short Mat Bowling Association held their annual Singles and Pairs Championships this weekend at Etherow Indoor Bowling Centre. The events saw 54 bowlers battle it out over the weekend in a bid to win trophies and places at the ESMBA National Short...
Friday Evening Social Bowling Goes Down a Storm!
We were delighted to see so many bowlers join us last Friday for Social bowling and we were overjoyed to hear your amazing, positive feedback. We hope you'll all come back this Friday and bring more of your family and friends too! As a reminder you can join us every...
It’s Back! This Friday 6:30pm …
We have fantastic news, Friday evening mixed Short Mat and Long Mat Social Bowling is back! We heard from lots of you and know you've all missed it, we have too ... but it's back for good from this Friday and every Friday thereafter between 6:30 and 9pm for only £4...
Etherow IBC Member, Peter Roberts Claims World Number 1 Title
Etherow IBC Member, Peter Roberts, travelled to Norway this weekend to defend his Norwegian Open Championships Short Mat Champion title. In addition to retaining his title, Peter also climbed the Short Mat Players Tour world rankings to become world number 1! All of...
League Tables Now Available Online
Our League tables are now available online, follow along with your favourite teams here
WANTED: Your Old Bowls
Do you have any old sets of indoor bowls in your garage or taking up space in the back of your wardrobe perhaps? We'd like to increase our offering of bowls for school groups and new and social bowlers to use when in the centre, we're looking for narrow to medium...
Friday Night Social Bowling is taking a short break
Our ever-popular Friday night Social Bowling is going to take a short break, we know this will be upsetting for many but the great news is we have exciting things planned and there isn't long to wait! We have more brand new short mats on the way and some fantastic...
More Short and Long Mat Social Bowling This Friday
We're excited to be able to run the Short and Long Mat social session again this coming Friday 6th October. The evening was well attended last week and it was great to see some of the long mat bowlers trying their hand at short mat and vice-versa, there was even some...
Boiler Plant Works This Week
This Thursday 5th and Friday 6th October will see work take place to insulate the hot water pipework in the boiler plant room, which will help us reduce our environmental impact and save on energy costs. We need to temporarily shut down the boilers to enable this work...
Warning, Wet Paint!
Starting tomorrow, Wednesday 4th October, the access ramp will undergo redecoration work, carried out by Diamond Decorators, that will last for up to five weeks. Whilst the work takes place, the ramp will remain open but please take care when using the ramp and follow...