Bowled Over in Suburbia ; Don't Be Fooled by the Sleepy Image: Bowling Greens Across the Capital Teem with Wily Operators and Fierce Competition

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THE invitation was too strange to refuse. Billy Jenkins, the much- revered avant-garde blues guitarist dubbed by The Sunday Times "the great unrecognised genius of south London", was pleased with a piece I'd written about his foray into the world of chess-jazz. However, he was keen to point out that chess wasn't his real passion. What really got him fired up was his local bowls club in Lewisham.

He posted me a DVD to prove it.

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Bowled Over in Suburbia ; Don't Be Fooled by the Sleepy Image: Bowling Greens Across the Capital Teem with Wily Operators and Fierce Competition

To my shame, I still haven't watched Ain't Going Yet: Celebrating 100 years of play at the Francis Drake Lawn Bowls Club (with music by Billy Jenk...

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