I threw my first ball at St Eval Bowl. I think it opened while I was there but thats a bit fuzzy. One of our Cpls was trained on the AMF bowling kit and helped keep the place running. Great facility that my visiting family loved. They had no easy access to this sort of thing in 1980's UK.
Never used Wittering while I was there but did have a few trips to Lyneham bowl. Where I first got the tag as the Cpl who could outdrink his lads. Well what they didnt know was everytime i bought a round I availed myself of the alcohol free lager that they served. - If you can keep you head while all around are losing theirs, as someone once wrote...