Another local bowling legend has passed away
Post date: Jan 3, 2021 8:16:50 PM
Following the sudden death of Barrie Plowman, another Stamford IBC bowling legend has died. Albert Horton, a top competitor in both EBA and Federation codes, was 85 and passed away on January 3.
Yorkshire-born, he served in the RAF and was a decent footballer. After moving south and switching from the crown green format in his home county, he proved a fierce competitor playing to EBA and Federation flat green rules, representing Hunts and Northants respectively in the Middleton Cup and Newton and Adams Trophies in the 1980s and '90s.
He reached the EBA national outdoor championships at Worthing on multiple occasions having also won the Hunts four-bowl singles in 1987, the triples in 1984 and the rinks in 1989 playing at the Peterborough South Ward green.
Albert won the Federation singles and pairs (with Dan Duffy) in 1991 and retained the mixed pairs title with Joyce Holden in 1990. He qualified for the English Federation championships with Peter Edwards when they won the county senior pairs for Ketton in 2011 and was twice runner-up with Doug Want (2007) and Edwards (2012).
As well as a multiple champion at Stamford Indoor Bowls Club, he will be remembered as a tough, fair but uncompromising bowler whom even in later years was always hard to beat.
He leaves a widow Dorothy and daughter Barbara. Our sympathies go out to them and his extended family. BW
FOOTNOTE: The club is also sad to report the death of Harold Binks, aged 93. 'Joe' as he was better known, was also a member of Greetham Valley Bowls Club, and played for many years in the Stamford and District outdoor bowls league.