The Society  of Friends of Bowring Park

Bowring Park Visitors Centre

The Coach House c/o Golf Shop

Bowring Park

Roby Road

Roby, Huyton

Knowsley

Merseyside,

L36 4HD

Telephone: 0151 482 1116  Opening hours Tuesdays, Wednesday Thursdays, 10.30am to 3pm winter, 4pm summer.  Saturdays by arrangment.   Sundays 2-4pm  Messages taken on 1571.

We are a registered charity established 1989 to preserve, protect and restore historic Bowring Park which was gifted by Alderman William Benjamin Bowring JP in 1906 and Presented 12 June 1907 when Roby Hall Estate was re-named Bowring Park in honour of the giver and has remained a public park.   The first Municipal Golf Course was opened in its ground in 1913, Alderman Bowring presented a trophy to found Bowring Golf Club, and this is still played for today.

FOBP manages the Visitors Centre, offers light refreshments to visitors, takes bookings for parties, organises indoor and outdoor events, fayres,  annual Gala,  monthly 'Cultural Feasts'