On Sunday 10th August, the 11th Norman Hartley Cup competition was held at Easingwold Bowling Club. The trophy and competition are named in memory of a former member and official of the club who was well known in Easingwold. Mr Hartley had a bookmakers business on Long Street.

The trophy was donated by his family on his passing in 2014, and has been an annual event ever since. This event is a unique one as members of Mr Hartley’s family always travel to Easingwold for the event and some usually take part in the match - this year being no exception -  with Norman’s son Terry joining one of the 6 triples teams who took part. Terry’s wife Judy was there to spectate. 

The match took place in hot sunshine and took the form of 3 x 50 minute matches. At the conclusion, club captain Andrew Mather did the mathematics and handed the result to club president Pete Snowden who announced the results.

In third place was Pete’s triple of Martin Lowther, Terry Hartley and himself. In second was Steve Brown with Lee Hebdon and Kim Beaumont, but the winners by one point were skipper Keith Hughes with Barbara Brown and Rob Bowman. 

An excellent afternoon all round!