Murrayfield Indoor Sports Club

CONTACT DETAILS

25 Roseburn Street, Murrayfield, EDINBURGH, EH12 5PE
0131 337 6591
enquiries@murrayfieldindoorsportsclub.co.uk
LOCALITY
North West

information DESCRIPTION

The club has been located on the same site since its formation in 1937, though it moved from the ground floor to its present position in the late 1960’s. It is the oldest private members’ Tenpin Bowling Club in the United Kingdom. The club was primarily formed to promote Tenpin Bowling, Scottish (Double Handed) Skittles and Carpet Bowling, but unfortunately the Carpet Bowling saw its demise in the early 1980’s.

The club constantly makes improvements to provide the best facilities for members, and has installed the same model of automatic pin-setting machines that is used in most tenpin centres today. Other improvements include replacing the wooden lanes by the latest synthetic lanes, introducing computerised scoring, moonlight bowling facilities, ramps or bumpers for beginners and also using a machine to clean and dress the lanes daily to give the best bowling conditions.

Scottish skittles like tenpin has references in history to the game being played a long time ago. The current game is played in a similar vein to that of tenpin but with some fundamental differences. The deployment of the ball is by double-handed means, either from a standing position or by launching your body on to the alley and releasing the ball at full stretch towards the pins. As such there is no requirement for finger holes in the ball like there is in tenpin.

ORGANISATION ACTIVITIES

Education/Learning/Training Older People Sport/Leisure/Recreation Young People

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