The Blayney Bowling Club site may have been sold for $726,000 to an as yet unnamed buyer, but its long history has been saved thanks to the work of local historians.
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Much has been spoken and written of the club's recent story, but it's the long-forgotten stories that Gwenda Stanbridge, the president of the Blayney Shire Local and Family History Group, says need to be preserved.
"The building was full of old photos, plaques, pennants and documents that go back well into the 1930s," she said.
"The club is just as important as any other building in town be it the hospital, railway station, council chambers or anywhere."
A membership book that stretches from 1935 through to 1955 contains a list of matches and members through those years, and many of the names are familiar to Mrs Stanbridge.
"There's a fellow in the book here called McShane who was a World War One soldier who went on to work at the Commonwealth Bank and was one of the instigators in getting the club going," she said.
The links between the club's members and the wider Blayney community are what Mrs Stanbridge believes are the most important stories, not simply the building and land, nor just the past few years.
"Many will remember the old Niagara Cafe, well the owner of that Nick Psaltis is in this book as well, so I was very pleased to find that because the cafe is an extremely important part of our history," she said.
The clubs photographs and memorabilia may well be saved from the skip, but the search now is for a permanent home for the history group's vast collection that until recently was held in the Blayney library.
"Since the library expansion we've been working with the Blayney Town Association to find a permanent home and we have a few options that include maybe putting on a display in the empty shops down the main street," Mrs Stanbridge said.