Well done to Barbara Owen, Steve Dowling and all their helpers, who weed, trim, and apply our own made compost and keep everything watered.​

Congratulations to our Merrow Top Club Team! Entering for the first time in the Women’s Top Club competition, your intrepid team travelled to Tongham and emerged victorious! We’re now in the Semi Final !

Congratulations to 2 of our members Clive and Robin
Between them raised £800

Robin and I undertook the 12 mile Sponsored Walk to raise funds for the Trust. A lot of Merrows members Sponsored us in our endeavour. We started at 9.30 and finished at approx 4.30. The weather was very kind to us, no rain.

The Wey & Arun Canal Trust’s Annual Sponsored Walk (often called the “Poddle”) took place on Sunday, June 7, 2026.

The Route: Started at Brinsbury College, passed Hill Farm and Stopham Bridge, stopped for lunch at Fittleworth Village Hall, and returned via the Wey South Path.

Report by Clive Eaton

Sometimes the weather in its infinite wisdom decides to surprise us with hailstones from above.
A complete white-out during out game – so we escaped to the clubhouse for tea and cake. But it cleared after tea and we carried on!
Life in an outdoor bowling world: sun, rain, wind, lightning, and, occasionally, hailstones.
You name it, we try and play in it!

Home game prechat with castle green bowls club . Where everything is (i.e. toilets etc) and more importantly the bar at the end of the match. Plus, match rules for the afternoon.
Always a fun game against friends of the club.

Mexican dominoes, a very funny game.
We also have:-
Rumikub, chess, crib, scrabble, backgammon etc
With new games being added.
You can learn a game, teach others or just participate.
Come and join us! Every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month 7pm. Merrow Social Club.
Playing fee £2.50

Congratulations to our Men’s Senior Fours Squad. Having won six rounds of the competition, including the County Final held at Croydon on the 3^rd June, Merrow will have the honour of representing Surrey in the National Finals at Leamington this August.

Richard Duddy and John Wills also qualified for their Surrey badge, as they played in all six matches.

L-R: Steve M, Richard, John W, David E and Trevor

The weather was spectacular, very dark, with thunderstorms all around.
We didn’t start very well (look at the scoreboards) but eventually turned it around to draw on rink two and win on rink one on the very last end.
As usual Castle Green were excellent hosts.
Robert