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Buckley Park Bowls Club

Club History

Buckley Parks proud history began  in  1956, after a number of hard working and diligent  voluntary residents in the Essendon area worked for  the signing of the original lease.  That spirit of hard voluntary work still prevails today.


1957  saw  the name changed from Essendon Civic Association to Buckley  Park  Bowling Club, the inaugural committee was formed and the  greens construction commenced.


1958  the original club house construction began, the  greens where sown, Buckley  Park  Ladies Bowling Club formed and December 6th,  1958 saw the offical opening of the Club.

After 3 years of hard work the first pennant match was played in 1959.  Our first Pennant  win came in the 1961/62 season against Coburg BC wining by 1 shot 110-109.


1960  -  1969  saw a  lot  development and  success at  the  club.  1960  the  No2  Green  was  laid  and  the No.1 green lighting  was erected. Our  ladies  tasted  success  winning  their  sectional  final  in  the  1963/64  season.  1967,  the  larger  club  house  was completed ,  1968  we  were  granted  the  much  sort  after  Liquor  Licence  and  in 1969 the No.3  green was  laid.


Disaster  hit  our  beloved  club  on  the  15th  of  November  1975  when  fire  gutted  our  club  house  and  scorched  one  green. The club  took  on  the  challenge immediately  to  rebuild and keep  playing and Saturday  pennant  was  played  the  following week!  By the  middle  of  1976  a  mere  7  months later our new look club house was up and running.


1982-2012   We  celebrated  our  Silver  Anniversary  changed  our  name  to  Buckley  Park  Bowls Inc. installed  a  desalination  plant  as well as  lights  on  our  No.3  Green.


Our Club has a living legend Bap Gasparini, Bap become a member in 1972


Today  sees  our  club  with  3  Tuesday Teams,  4  Saturday  Teams   and  2  night  Pennant  Teams.  We  always  welcome  new  members  to  our  great  Club!




Photo Gallery

Green No.1 being made

Green No.1 being made

Original Club House

Original Club House 

First Winning Pennant team! 

First Ladies Pennant Win

First Ladies Pennant Win

Club House Burning Down November 1975

Next day after the fire

Bowls Magazine Cover page

The rebuilld

The rebuilld

Inside the new club rooms

Inside the new club rooms

Buckley Park Today!

Buckley Park Today!

LIFE MEMBERS

Legend

Club Legend Bap Gasparini

Bap Joined the club in 1972 and was given Life Membership in March 2003 for service to the club over 31 years!

In 2003 Bap won his 9th Club Singles Title. To honour him  the club named a trophy for the clubs best pennant player,  "The Bap Gasparini Award". The votes were added up for the pennant season and fittingly the player with the most votes was Bap, making him the inaugural  winner of his own award!

Bap won :

  • 9 Club singles
  • 6 Club Pairs
  • 9 Club Triples
  • 8 Club Fours
  • 2 time winner of the RBVA 60 & over Singles Titles

Bap was asked what was one of his best wins? Bap rated his Mixed Pairs win with his wife Jean . "One of the best wins, was with my wife Jeannie in the club pairs. I had won it with another lady but that was before my wife started, to be able to win one with Jeannie I thought was quite wonderful!"

2015 Bap & Jean moved their address to Ardmillian House. Bap found he needed something to do and asked if he could start up Indoor Bowls for the residents. Bap organised a donation of 2 sets of indoor bowls from BPBC and the club organised an indoor mat (thanks to Joan Turner) The residents now enjoy weekly games of Bowls thanks to Bap.

Bap has now completed 44 years of service to the club.

To honour Bap, 'A True Legend of the Club', he was invited to put the first bowl down of the 2016/17 season.


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Buckley Park Bowls

111 Cooper St, Essendon, Vic 3040 www.buckleyparkbowls.com

Email: buckleyparkbowls@gmail.com

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