Taylor Support Shropshire Premier Bowls League
Mike has been another valued supporter of our league from the very beginnings to now. He attended the early meetings as part of Hadley USC, and played in the league from there. In the first season of the league he helped set up a meeting between the league and Castlefields to try and heal the rift that had built up. He couldn’t stop Hadley from pulling out of the league in 1997 due to a lack of players. He moved to Wrockwardine Wood, where he played for 5 seasons, winning the Pool B in 2000, before moving over to Sir John Bayley. This was the season after he had become our first ever County President, a proud moment for him and the league. At the Bayley he helped them win their first trophy in the Alan Mayhew Trophy, and became our League President in 2002. He also was key in getting sponsorship from Furrows Telford, a partnership that lasted for 10 seasons, our longest ever sponsorship. A doubles competition was finally ran in 2003 using a trophy donated by him and is called the Mike Hinton Pairs and he has supported this every season since. He stopped playing Premier League bowls after this season, until he went to Ford for a season in 2011, and played a single game for them in 2012. He stepped down as our President in 2014, and now plays in the Senior Citizens for the Bayley, helping them win the league seven times on the spin.
