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Bowling Green, Lynn Road, Wisbech

History of the Bowling Green

Bowling greens became fashionable in England in the 16th cent.

1778 report of lightening strike by the Bowling Green

1846 Robert Mills

1872 Bowling match advertised by J Griffin

1877 A R Betram

1879 George Saddington

1881 Charles Ambrose

1904 Robert Lake

(source: The Inns and Taverns of Wisbech – a survey from the earliest times to 1950 by Arthur Artis Oldham, 1993)

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