The bowling green at Coulsdon Memorial Ground
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The bowling green at Coulsdon Memorial Ground
Image: © Marathon Taken: 27 Mar 2013
Coulsdon Memorial Ground was opened in 1921 after being purchased in 1920, partly by Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council and partly by public subscription. The putting green area was purchased several years later. At the top of the hill there is a memorial which takes the form of a portico with a wall bearing the names of those killed in the two World Wars. This has the inscription "To the memory of the men of Coulsdon who fell in the Great War 1914-1919." A bronze plaque was added bearing the words "and in memory of those who fell in the World War 1939-1945." To the rear of the recreation ground are deep chalk quarries which in the past had spur lines from the nearby railway running into the slopes to transport the extracted stone. This view looks across the bowling green from Marlpit Lane.
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