Location Location…..Location

After 10 years at Genotin Terrace Bush Hill Bowls moved to Lincoln Road in March 2023.  We stayed there just over a year and then found our current (wonderful) shop in Bury Street West. The distance between the three locations is small – maybe a mile and half by car, or 800 yards as the crow flies.

Here’s a picture of two of the shops.

And here’s why: we came to the end of our lease at Genotin Terrace. It was a good lease, interior repairing only (most are ‘full repairing’ meaning the tenant is responsible for anything and everything that needs mending).

We were offered a renewal at a 50% increase, AND a switch to full repairing.  Well, bowls is ok to earn a living, but not to earn a fortune, so we had to move.

Our choice of location raised a few eyebrows at the time.  The house in front of Scoffields Garage was in poor repair and uninhabited.  The ground floor, however, was spacious and after a bit of sprucing up became our temporary new shop while we searched for a more permanent home.

We knew it would be temporary because Medicus Health Partners, which runs the Health Centre opposite us, is intending to buy the whole of 180 Lincoln Road, including our shop, Scoffields Garage and all the workshops on the plot.

When will this happen?  Probably within eighteen months so once probate on the estate of Kevin Scoffield is granted – sadly our landlord, the eponymous Kevin Scoffield, passed away in the summer of 2024 shortly after we moved to Bury Street West.