History
The 1970’s were truly progressive years for the entire club as
Outdoor and Indoor Sections flourished. Membership Waiting Lists were
always in operation. By the 1980’s new ideas for a fourth Indoor rink
had been continually explored by successive Steering Committees.
Architects had been engaged, applications for planning permission
submitted but all to no avail. Building costs meanwhile had been
escalating. Slowly yet inevitably, our long held hopes of further indoor
expansion and a new Pavilion were effectively eclipsed by the building
of an Exeter City Sports Arena in 1994. Funded by a national supermarket
chain in exchange for land and development rights nearby, the complex
incorporated a Council owned 8 rink Indoor Stadium of World Bowls
standard the ultimate answer to the indoor bowler’s dream.
As we enter the new millennium, we remain a private club, still under
Company and Management Committees’ control. Nowadays we afford the
indoor player all year-round bowling. And we still maintain a superb
outdoor green of Middleton Cup standards with first class facilities for
our outdoor bowlers. We are resolved to continue updating our buildings
and amenities for the benefit of future members. Exonia today is a club
to be proud of, in retrospect, a living testimony to the forethought of
its founders and the loyalties of generations of members.
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