| New Venue This Week |
From Tuesday 9th April, we will be playing at St Nicholas Church Hall, Thames Ditton. Please click here to see it on a map!
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| New venue during Thames Ditton Centre refurbishment |
Elmbridge Council has decided to lease the Thames Ditton Village Centre to a Community Interest Company called Vital Village which is to carry on and extend the range of activities which take place there. Vital Village is going to carry out an initial refurbishment of the Centre to improve its halls and amenities, and which will necessitate Ditton Bridge Club relocating to St Nicholas Church Hall down the road in Thames Ditton for up to three months from 9th April. We are working with both Vital Village and St Nicholas regarding this and look forward to the prospect of an enhanced and secure venue for the future. We will send out details of the interim arrangements once they are finalised but intend to continue our Tuesday evening bridge sessions in the temporary location missing only April 2nd if neither venue is available.
We have been to see the St Nicholas Church Hall which seems suitable for a temporary venue. It is expected that a storage unit will be put in the car park in which we can store our tables. They have plastic chairs and kettles and mugs but no storage for any of our other stuff. There is parking for 15 cars in the Church Car Park and the Ashley Road Car Park is a four-minute walk away.
We will give more information as it becomes available but if you have any specific questions, please click here to email the Club.
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| CLUB COMPETITIONS 2023-2024 |
Our annual Pairs Championship is going to take place on Tuesday 23 April 2024. Winners are awarded the John Harris Cup (pictured) and an entry to the Surrey CBA Mary Edwards Cup competition (12 May 2024); the Pairs Plate will be awarded to the highest placed pair whose NGS is both 8 or less (unless they have won the Pairs Trophy). Our annual teams Championship is going to take place on Tuesday 14 May 2024. Winners are awarded the Teams Trophy and an entry to the Surrey CBA Wanborough Cup competition (9 June 2024). There is also the Club ladder which can be found in the Results section of the website.
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| David Wadey 1918-2021 |
 Some of our members will remember David Wadey
who played at the club for many years.
Before he passed away, he provided us with a memoir of his life
including his wartime experiences at Dunkirk and El Alamein
as well as his many years of playing bridge.
Click here to read more…
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| CONGRATULATIONS - CLUB TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIP 2022-2023 |
Congratulations to Marion Hart, Ken Wilshire, Andrew Bannock and John Dagnall who won the 2022-3 Club Teams Championship on Tuesday 23rd May 2023. Paul Hainsworth, Christine Morgan, Giovanni Homewood and Gabrielle Roberts came second. Well done to all who came to play in the event.
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| CONGRATULATIONS - CLUB PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP 2023 |
Congratulations to Giovanni Homewood and Gabrielle Roberts who won the 2022-3 Club Pairs Championship. Gill Smith and Julie Minards (the highest ranked pair neither of whom have an NGS rating of higher than 8) win the Plate.
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| ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION NATIONAL PAIRS COMPETITION 2022-2023 |
Well Done to Andrew Bannock and John Dagnall who finished 3rd in this year's EBU National Pairs competition. In the first round, they qualified from a session at Ditton Bridge Club (and then only coming second), so have a go next year and see if you can do one (or two) better!
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| Ditton Bridge Club, Thames Ditton, Surrey |
Ditton BC holds regular duplicate bridge sessions on Tuesday evenings at . Visitors are welcome on each evening (but will not qualify from or be awarded trophies at Club Championship events).
We usually operate a host system on ordinary duplicate-pairs on Tuesdays, so players turning up on their own on those evenings are likely to be offered a partner.
Table money is normally £5 for members, and £6 for visitors and guests, and includes tea, coffee and biscuits.
We look forward to your visiting this Club some day soon.
John Dagnall, Chair
(Please click anywhere on this panel to email the club)
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| Where We're Near |
Ditton Bridge Club is affiliated to the English Bridge Union (EBU) & the Surrey County Bridge Association (SCBA). We are in Surrey County's Borough of Elmbridge, just outside the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames, & very near to Surbiton, Hinchley Wood, Esher & East Molesey. We are not at all far from Claygate, New Malden, Hampton Court, Hook, Tolworth & Chessington.
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| Bridge Lessons |
Bridge lessons and play sessions for all levels: contact: Meena Samani on 020 8339 0645 or 07740 053 683, or at fun2playbridge@outlook.com
Bridge courses restart in September: Bidding Refresher and Next Steps on Thursday mornings; Intermediate and Advance Levels on various days - please call Meena to discuss.
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| Our Extensive Refurbishment |
The extensive refurbishment of the Club’s physical infrastructure has been achieved with the kindness and generous financial support of the following local grant‑making bodies.
This tremendous support will enable us to provide members and visitors with a much improved, more comfortable and up-to-date playing environment
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| The EBU's Bridge Warehouse |
Ditton Bridge Club is affiliated to the English Bridge Union (EBU) and is happy to help publicise The Bridge Warehouse.
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