LETTER: Support for bowls club is gratifying

It was even more satisfying to hear so much spoken support from the general public and see their eagerness to sign the petition. The reaction from the public was complete incomprehension how the council could consider that bowls is no longer wanted.

Bowls has been around for many years, even Sir Francis Drake took time out of bowls to sink the Spanish Armada! (I hope he resumed the game to win). I hope that Jonathan Chowen will equally take notice and sink the opposition to bowls.

My message to Jonathan Chowen, council member responsible for these decisions is listen to the people, bowls is played from all sections of the community and many depend on the social and leisure activities it provides.

My ditty to Jonathan Chowen:

Dear Jon please listen to the people’s plea

We all want our bowls just you wait and see

Just turn your back on the electorate

and you may find yourself without an act

Try it yourself and you maybe surprised

Your faith in our sport could be baptised.

Dear, dear Jon, listen, it is not too late

Just give it some thought it is a mistake

You have a tough job we all understand

Listen to the facts and be a big man

We don’t ask for much, just a basic right

to pay our own way come day and night.

Oh! dear, dear, dear Jon what have you gone done

Upsetting the old, the blind and children

All of these just ask for somewhere to play

just occupied and not going astray

There is such a place not far from town’s hub

It’s called simply Horsham Indoor Bowls Club

I hope I am being listened to but I would ask all the other readers to write in and express their concern over the councils decision and please feel free to add to my ditty anything they would consider appropriate.

Tony Bacot

Skylark View

Horsham