Toorak Bowls Club

Toorak Bowls Club

October 2018:

The rather nice Toorak Bowling Club in Mandeville Crescent, a timber structure mostly dating from 1914, though don’t know why the symmetrical gabled bit on the left is taller. But the almost #neoclassical verandah apparently dates from c1954, maybe the multi pane windows too.

Can’t find a much on Trove, but @stonningtonlibraries has a pic from 1939, showing the walls clad differently, and from 1954, the latter showing the current verandah. Probably like many clubhouses it was added to and altered more than once. It’s got a heritage overlay, which is nice. From other pics I could find seems much like any bowls club, with random stuff inside, competitions, cheap beer, young and old, etc.

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