First, there is NO connection between this club and Freemasonry!

 

In about 1880, brothers Dan and Charles Mason founded a small soap-making business in Chiswick. At the turn of that century, they started making and selling a new kind of shoe polish, which they called "Cherry Blossom", a name of course familiar to this day. As the business grew, they leased some land which the then Chiswick Urban Council had bought from the Duke of Devonshire, and built a club, originally just for their employees, which they called the Chiswick Polish Athletic Club.

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The club became open to all-comers, and when a bowls green was created in 1920 the members asked if they could change the name, out of respect for and in memory of the founders. Hence the name, initially the Masonian Athletic Club, and then as now the Masonian Bowls Club.

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In 1983 the club was required to move, and searched for alternative accommodation.

 

After a long debate and search it was decided that Masonians should stay in Chiswick, and in 1984 moved into the premises of what had been Burlington Bowls Club. That club had disbanded a few years earlier, and the green and club house had fallen into ruin. Due to the condition of the green the new occupants had to play all games away until, after a great deal of work, the following year when  they could finally call themselves at home.

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Since 1985, the Masonian Bowls Club in its new location has had as members bowlers of all kinds, from those who just play for fun to the highly-skilled, resulting in the club getting to regular finals, within Middlesex, at which level we have a number of county bowlers, the Richmond and Barnes, Thames Valley and Hounslow & District Leagues. Within all these leagues the name Masonian Bowls Club features on many cups and trophies. We also have members who play at National level, appearing at national events in Leamington Spa.

 

Masonian Bowls Club has a dedicated bunch of male and female members, who devote time and effort in keeping the club vibrant and viable, which is a credit to them. Many bowls clubs have folded in the past 20 years or so, not least in this area. We are thriving but, obviously, need to keep recruiting new members to ensure that the club continues to flourish now and in the future. 

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We welcome members new and old, and young and old. The only requirement, apart from a very modest annual sub, is to be friendly, and prepared to join in and roll some woods!