Crystal Palace Indoor Bowls Club is the oldest English indoor bowling club, being founded in 1905, the founding father was W.G.Grace the famous English cricketer. Its home was at the Great Exhibition Centre in the original Crystal Palace. It flourished here winning the inaugural National Competition, the Denny cup in 1934/35, and again the following year. It remained at this site until the catastrophic fire  in 1936 which destroyed the Centre. Amazingly the following year the club started bowling again at its new site just down the road, in Annerly, where it remained until 2021.