Maleny  Lady  Bowling  Club  1956

Photos  Left to right:

Back  Row:   Unknown,   Ada Matthie,   Edna Hawkins,   Doss Dunson,  Chrissie Geritz,   Maud McCarthy,  Unknown,  Nell Clancy,

2nd Row:   Laura Finter,   Grace Cork,   Peggie Ruddle,   Ivy Argent,

3rd Row:   Berryl Newton,   Muriel Williams,   Dot Myers,   Rita Weeding,   Ivy Dudley,   Dell Linde.

Maleny  Bowls  Clubhouse  -  1948 ????

This information came from Peter Mumford of Country Homes Maleny.
Peter has lived at Maleny all his life and can remember "the old days".

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"My father Cliff Mumford plowed up the "old green" preparing it for a "brand new green" using a single horse drawn mouldboard plough in the early 1950's.    Dad tore the cartlidge in his left knee while doing it and had to go "all the way to Brisbane" for cartilage surgery.

It wasn't all bad, as thereafter he became an expert weather predictor with his knee “acting up” at the first sign of rain, although his uncanny way of predicting it, may have had something to do with his success.      If you asked him what the weather was going to do he had two replies.     If his knee was really aching it was “bucket down” and if it was mild it was “fine with showers” where-upon if it “bucketed down” he replied, “those showers were heavy weren’t they”.      He had all the angles covered.

I remember vividly after starting at the "new" schools opening year at it's present location in 1959 in Grade 2 (Started grade I at the "old school" where the Guide hut now is where we kids sometimes rode our dairy cow "daisy" to school).

Dad was working at the "new green" by then and it was with great pride after school we kids used to sit outside it waiting for him to "knock off".      The "Royal Anteviluvian Order of Buffaloes" used the clubhouse for meetings then and Dad would serve the members straight from the keg placed on the bartop and bottle what was left.

I think perhaps it had been extended by then as I seem to remember it being slightly bigger than your photo and located at the right hand end of the green at rear.     It was one of his jobs to put up and take down the "sun awning" (similar to one shown in your photo) which was a tarp used to shade the "chairs for club patrons" outside in fine weather.

It probably seems strange now but back then everyone was vey proud of their clubhouse."