Sportsmark was originally founded in 1959 by Derek and Jane Lloyd. We started marking playing fields in the Greater London area, as there was a shortage of groundsmen after the war. This quickly led in 2 directions. The first was to start supplying goals and nets to these playing fields. The second was to move into hard surface marking for netball courts on tarmac and similar.
Founded in 1959
A History of Innovation
In the late ’60s, Sportsmark developed the all-in-one concrete ditch and bank unit for bowling greens. With changes in the laws of bowls in the late 1980s, Sportsmark took advantage of the wording to produce the ‘County’ generation of ditch and bank units. These feature the ‘angled return face’ which directs the bowl into the ditch and has become the standard for discerning greens around the world. Each winter we install ‘County’ concrete ditches to several bowling greens requiring refurbishment. Today we are the premier supplier of equipment for flat bowling greens, offering a range of ditch channels, ditch liners ditch grass, access ramps -steps, ditch numbers, rink markers, and scorers. In addition to bowls we developed a range of equipment for other sports such as Cricket, Football, Rugby Hockey, Golf and more recently Beach sports and Volleyball,
Over Half a Century of Sports and Line Marking Experience
Today, the two main strands in our business remain sports ground line marking and the supply and installation of outdoor sports equipment. We now mark sports courts on vinyl, wood, tarmac and concrete, and also undertake car park and road markings. We also supply equipment to just about every sport known to man. To complement this, we also supply a large range of line marking machines, groundsman’s tools and equipment. We supply site safety equipment, largely geared towards car parks – road, demarcation and anti-social/ anti skateboard studs, pre-formed thermoplastic lines and hazard markers, grit and litter bins.