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Kōrero: Arcade, computer and video games

Skittle alley bowls

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Skittle alley bowls

These skittle alley bowls, now preserved in Russell Museum in the Bay of Islands, are all that remain of a 19th-century skittle alley that once stood in the town’s centre, near present-day York Street. Their battered appearance shows they were well-used.

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Russell Museum

Reference: HFC21

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Kerryn Pollock, Arcade, computer and video games – Arcade games: 19th century to 1960s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/object/39291/skittle-alley-bowls (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012.