People have been tossing balls around the grass since the 15th century but it took a Scottish company, Thomas Taylor, to produce standardised kit using a machine lathe.

And it was Scottish players who reorganised the game, using curling as a model, and created what is known as flat green bowling today.

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Colgrain Bowling Club,
Monaebrook Place,
Helensburgh,
Argyll & Bute,
G84 7JD.