- Ben Drewe
- 24th Jul 2013 3:48 PM
THIS Saturday a celebration will be held to mark the 75th anniversary of what has been described as an oasis in the heart of Toowoomba's CBD.
July 27 marks the 75th anniversary of the first City Bowls Club annual general meeting and current members of the club will commemerate that milestone with a dinner at the club on Saturday.
More than 60 of the club's 135 members are expected to attend a night of celebrations for the club.
Initial moves to establish City Bowls Club were made way back in May 1937 before the first recorded game of bowls was held at the Duggan St greens on February 5, 1938.
It wasn't until July 27 that year that the first AGM of the club was held, which paved the way for more than seven decades of bowls at the inner-city club.
Take a walk through the clubhouse and you will see the names of the club's top bowlers over the years adorn the many honour boards hanging on the walls reminding people of the club's past.
Current club secretary Graham Healy, whose father Denis is arguably the second-longest serving member of the club, believes City Bowls Club holds a special place in the landscape of the Toowoomba business district.
"We're not the oldest club in town, but we're the only club in the centre of the city. All of the others are out in the suburbs," he said while the club's main green was busy with regular Wednesday afternoon men's play.
"It's like a little oasis here.
"You've got shopping centres and traffic lights and all of that sort of stuff, yet here are these guys just being able to enjoy a nice afternoon right in the centre of the CBD.
"It's pretty unique really to be able to do this sort of stuff in the middle of the city."
That landscape will soon change though due to the QIC Global redevelopment of the Gardentown and Grand Central shopping centres, with the club hoping to gain further details on how construction will effect the club's two greens and in particular, its northern green.
"We're talking to the developers," Healy said. "We would like to know a little bit more information about how whatever they build over there is going to impact on us.
"One of the main things is that little green over there needs sunlight on it all of the time."
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