From the photographs available there appears to have been cordoned off outdoor bowls green(s) at the current locations of the 2 outdoor bowls greens since at least 1927. They certainly became 2 greens in the early 1930s. 

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Very little appears to have changed until the late 1960s when the indoor part of the bowls club was constructed, as documented in the 1960-1990 part of this website. This replaced the tennis courts that were in front of the pavilion.

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A contact, Vincent Williams, informs me: "I have the opening booklet of the Indoor Bowls Centre. It it it says the centre was opened on Tuesday 23rd November 1965 by the Mayor of Folkestone, Alderman Wilfred May Harris J.P. The cost of building it was £55000." accounting for inflation that £55000 is just under a million pounds today!

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Trevor Greening (Folkestone’s Borough Engineer, Surveyor and Planning Officer from 1968 to 1974) recalls: "At the time it was said to be the largest single span bowls centre (laminated timber) in the UK.  It contained 6 bowling lanes with a 5 foot surround  which would make the span about 100 foot.  The firm who built it was Fromson Construction, a Canadian firm and because of the need for extreme accuracy in the concrete floor I personally checked the levels of the formwork before allowing the concrete to be poured.  This then had softboard glued to it, with an underlay and jute matting on top which was subsequently changed to felt."

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In a photo from Trevor, looking south through the window the old pavilion changing rooms can be seen. This is now the location of the bowls club car park.

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