A SPORTS club founded in the last century in a village near York plays “a most convivial game”, according to one of its players, who issued a call out for new members.
The Fox Pétanque Club in Stockton-on-the-Forest was formed in 1997 and originally met at the rear of The Fox pub, before relocating to the rear of the village hall car park where its members now play.
Club member Pauline Gilpin, 73, lives in Badger Hill with husband Ray, who began playing in Fulford in 2008, and she soon joined in.
The national association for England describes pétanque as being “played with hollow steel balls known as boules, and a small wooden target ball or jack.
“The game is usually played on a gravel-topped terrain at least 12m long, but this need not to be a purpose-built area and pétanque can be played informally on many other types of surface, such as a sandy beach.”
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