A bowling club was targeted by anti-fascist graffiti yobs a week before slogans were daubed across public buildings in a showpiece park in Saltaire.

Police are still hunting vandals who scrawled “knock fascism for six” across Saltaire Cricket Club’s score box and defaced other public buildings in Roberts Park, Saltaire, with “bizarre” graffiti.

Now it has emerged that graffiti reading “bash the fash” – next to a crossed-out swastika – was sprayed on the bowling club pavilion on Crowgill Park, Shipley.

There has also been similar graffiti, sprayed on using a stencil, at Salts Sport Club, Saltaire, and in Carr Lane, Shipley, in recent weeks, a Shipley councillor said.

Bowling club member Ken Bedford discovered the vandalism in Crowgill Park while walking his dogs.

There was also an attempt to damage the lock on the pavilion by jamming a ball-point pen into it a few days previously, said Mr Bedford.

“We can’t let these idiots get away with it,” he said.

The Telegraph & Argus reported the clean-up operation in Roberts Park following the vandalism attack last Sunday.

As well as the cricket score box being defaced, more graffiti reading “remember Goose Green” and “remember 1982” – a reference to the Battle of Goose Green between British and Argentine forces during the Falklands War – was also painted on the park’s shelters.

The slogan “bash the fash” also appeared on one of the shelters in the park, where a £4.3 million refurbishment was completed in 2010.

Councillor Martin Love (Green, Shipley) said: “I was told by a member of staff at Roberts Park that what had happened there had happened elsewhere, at Salts Sports Club’s football stand and at the top of Carr Lane. This graffiti is costing the Council money to clean up when it is Council property and it is costing other individuals when it is their property as well.”

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said investigations were ongoing. Anyone with information should contact Shipley Neighbourhood Policing Team on the non-emergency 101 number.