Brockley bowlers sent to the Tower (From News Shopper)

Brockley bowlers sent to the Tower

4:23pm Monday 15th June 2009 in

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A BOWLING club from Brockley are preparing to play an unusual fixture at the Tower of London next month.

Francis Drake BC captain and fixture secretary Mick Singer was looking for somewhere adventurous to take the club and was literally bowled over when enquiries to the Tower of London resulted in an invitation to play there on the July 15.

Mr Singer said: “For a humble club like ours to be playing under the floodlights on a summer’s evening in one of London’s major historical attractions is quite a coup.

“It’s usually the grandee clubs who get invited to play on such a prestigious green.

“Not surprisingly, members have quickly signed up and we’re most grateful to Lewisham Council in supplying a coach to ferry us there and back.”

The Club, who have casual players and members from the age of eight to 93 and are based at Hilly Fields, was founded in 1906, a mere 800 years or so after the Tower was built.

Mr Singer added: “Folks have been out on the green practising hoping to get picked, but most are happy just to come along and enjoy this one off experience, which includes witnessing the ceremony of the keys.

“But we better just make sure that Rex 'the Rex-terminator' Taylor doesn’t get locked up and left behind because we might need him for the crunch league match against Southwark Park the following weekend.”