Prince-Smith and Stells bowlers show off the Roy Marriner Shield for Crown Green bowling in 1948
WORKING life sometimes extended into sport and leisure.
These are the Prince-Smith and Stells bowlers who won the Roy Marriner Shield for Crown Green bowling in 1948. They were photographed in the grounds of Prince-Smith and Stells’ social club at Strong Close.
Mr Lloyd George Wallis, who sits on the far right, wrote all their names on the back of the original print.
Front row, left to right: left to right: Bob Wade, J Caress, J Turner, B Anderton, LG Wallis. Back row: W Richmond, J Keenan, Tom Woods, A Pye, Fred Robinson, F Richmond, J Harker.
Prince-Smith and Stells Ltd was taken over by Platt International Ltd in 1970, in the first of a series of amalgamations which would spell its eventual demise.
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