South Oxford Bowls Club

This friendly and highly successful club was founded in 1906 as a section of the amalgamated South Oxford Cricket, Tennis and Bowls Club, which rented the Brasenose College ground between the Abingdon Road and the Isis. Older members formed a club and played round the field using white lines for ends and a white circle for the jack. In 1911, a new and permanent green of natural turf with ditches was laid in the south-east corner of the ground near the river. This was cared for by founder member Edmund Green, the Brasenose College groundsman.