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TREASURE HUNT AND AFTERNOON TEA

The next social event at OSBC will be a Treasure Hunt and Afternoon Tea.

The event is scheduled for Sunday, August the 16th with the doors (and the bar) opening at 1.30pm, and your afternoon tea being served at 4.30pm. You can either solve the clues along the 1.5 mile hunt around Shrewsbury, or, for non-walkers and/or in bad weather, there is a virtual indoor hunt.

Entry to the Treasure Hunt (and including the afternoon tea) is £15.00 per person. Teams can be of any size and there will be prizes for the winners in each category.

Please come along if you are able. We are fund raising as much as we can at the moment as we have a large electrical project to finance.

COUNTY CUP SEMI-FINALS

OSBC is host to the County Cup semi-finals which are being played this Saturday, the 8th of August 2026.

The teams playing are Woore vs Sir John Bayley on green one, and Wrockwardine Wood vs Burway on green 2.

The club will be open from 6pm and the matches will begin at 7pm. They should be close and very interesting games, so please come along if you can - you will watch some excellent league players compete.

Naturally, the bar will be open and at the moment the weather for Saturday looks fine, warm and dry.

BILLY FRANCIS MEMORIAL COMPETITION

Martin Francis gave the following message after this event in memory of his father:

"We held the 2nd year of the Bill Francis Memorial Bowls Competition... again kindly hosted by Old Shrewsbury Bowling Club. Another fantastic day with Dad shining down on us - glorious weather and some top bowls played in a 32 strong field. Most importantly £474 raised for Severn Hospice, which was an improvement on last year.

Well done to Shaun Braddock-Bould for winning the main competition and many thanks for donating his prize money to Severn Hospice. Thanks to everyone who helped out on the day - bar staff Debbie Davies and Sue Burroughs, Terry Evans for doing great food as always, Margaret Ramsey and Debbie Riley who sold raffle tickets all day, my niece Annabel for baking cakes, everyone who kindly donated raffle prizes, a donation from Castlefields bowling club, and Rich Jones for cutting the greens. Big thanks to Tim Robbins who basically organises everything!!!"

It was a hot and long day but the overall result was excellent and there are plans to hold the competition again next year - a fitting tribute for Billy. A thank you to all OSBC members who also helped on the day.