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EBU MASTERPOINTS PROMOTION

JANUARY 2024

Shirley Hewitt  1 Star Master

DECEMBER 2023

Ron Pearson  5 Star Regional Master

NOVEMBER 2023

Annette Evans  County Master
Doug Johnson  District Master
Alan Goddard  District Master

SEPTEMBER 2023

Mike Jensen  Local Master

AUGUST 2023

Bill Jones  Area Master

JULY 2023

Leigh Harding  5* Regional Master

Terry Downs  District Master

MAY 2023

Judith Edwards  District Master

 

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Club History
Club History

Hayling Island Bridge Club was founded in 1975 by Leon Davies and his wife Pamela, and by Cecil and Irene Coe.  The original officers of the Club were:

 
Leon Davies (Chairman)
Joan Wyatt (Hon Secretary)
Graeme Symons (Hon Treasurer)


Leon used to teach bridge at Adult Education classes held at a local school.  Attendees of those bridge classes were amongst the first members of the Club.   For the first few years the Club met at the Sporting Man's Club on the seafront.  Rubber bridge was played on two evenings each week.

The Sporting Man's Club is shown on the left of this old postcard.


 

Cecil Coe introduced Duplicate bridge into the Club, organising and running the duplicate evenings which replaced one of the rubber bridge evenings.   This format of one rubber bridge evening and one duplicate bridge evening every week has continued to the present day.


When the Sporting Man's Club was re-developed, the bridge club moved to St Andrew's Church in Southwood Road.  Alan Shore recollects that the then vicar "...was very helpful in providing a large curtain to minimise the draughts."

Soon the Club moved again, this time to the United Reformed Church in Elm Grove. 

With the building of a new community centre in Hayling Park at the planning stage and due to be completed in 1981, Leon Davies became a member of the community centre committee and was able to further the interests of the bridge club in making it a suitable meeting place.   The bridge club subsequently moved to the community centre.

Between 2005 and early 2012 the Club met at a local school, but is now back at the Community Centre.

Chairman

Leon Davies 1975 - 1979
Alan Shore 1979 - 1992
Peter Field 1992 - 1999
Graham Broadbent 1999 - 2012
James  Hawkins 2012 - 2014
Nigel Whiteman 2014 - 2016

Current Chairman:

Philippa Berry 2016 -


Thank you to Leon and Pamela Davies and to Alan Shore who between them have provided these recollections of the formation and early years of Hayling Island Bridge Club.

Do you have any memories or photographs of the early days of the club that could be added to this account? If so, please e-mail details to haylingislandbridgeclub@gmail.com