The Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls and Tennis Centre is a sports complex located in Glasgow, Scotland. Located on Kelvin Way off Sauchiehall Street and adjacent to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove Park and the Yorkhill and Kelvingrove residential neighbourhoods, it is owned by Glasgow City Council and was a venue for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and has been used for the purpose since at least 1910.Kelvingrove Bowling Green (Glasgow University Archive Services, Building Photographs, 1910), The Glasgow Story In addition to a number of lawn bowls greens, the facility has six artificial grass tennis courts which are available to the public to play for free.How to book a Tennis Court in Glasgow, Glasgow Life
Prior to becoming an extension of the park to serve as the venue for the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in 1888, the land was occupied by Kelvinbank House, a mansion dating from the 1780s,Kelvinbank House, Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow GentryKelvinbank House, The Glasgow Story with the property sited almost exactly on the location of the bowling centre pavilion.OS Six-inch 1st edition, 1843-1882, Explore georeferenced maps (National Library of Scotland)
See also Lawn bowls at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
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