LINDLEY BC are celebrating bringing a piece of silverware ‘home’ to Daisy Lea Lane (inset).

This year, for the first time ever, they entered a team in the Slawit & Golcar Cars Huddersfield League Binns Cup section – and they won.

Not only that, but the Binns Cup – which they will collect at the League presentation night on October 21 – will be returning to the place from where it came.

In 1896, the year the Huddersfield League was founded, the president of Lindley BC, Mr JH Binns, presented the trophy to the league which they have now won.

The club – who have also won their section in the Elland League and had seven players in the top 10 of the averages – won 15 of their 16 matches to win the Binns Cup.

Last year, the club was voted as having the best green in Huddersfield and their victorious Binns team included three or four experienced players and others new to the game.

Lindley BC was founded in 1894 after a meeting at the Bay Horse Hotel and a green was laid the following year and used for social bowling by local businessmen.

In 2005, they entered a team for the first time for competitive bowling in the Huddersfield Veterans League and, last year, they had two teams – the A team winning promotion.

They finished runners-up this year, gaining promotion to Section III with Philip Walker winning all his games.

In 2006 they entered a team in the Brighouse Vets League and, in 2008, had two teams, the A side winning Section IV at their first attempt and, the following year, adding the Section III honours.

Last year they won Section II and, this season, they have been promoted from Section I to the Premier, having finished second.

As a result of these successes, they entered a team in the Huddersfield League in 2009 for the first time in their history. As the green at Lindley WMC was declared unfit for match play, the team relocated to Daisy Lea Lane and played in the Ingham Cup.

As a result of a minor upsurge in interest in 2010, mainly by newly-retired men and others who didn’t realise a club was tucked away there, it was decided to have four extra teams in 2011 – resulting in the Binns Cup heading home.