Welcome to OLICANA Bridge Club in the delightful West Yorkshire town of Ilkley. We are located at 12 Wells Promenade in the town centre. We are just a few minutes walk from Ilkley Train Station - regular services from Leeds and Bradford and a few minutes walk from the bus station (which is adjacent to the Train Station).

We have duplicate sessions on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Please try to be seated no later than 7.05pm so that we can make a prompt start. We offer a warm welcome to any visiting pairs. There are teams of four evenings, occasional weekend events and beginners/improvers sessions too - please see the weekly calendar for precise details of all of our events. We have a host system on Monday afternoon, Wednesday evening and Sunday Swiss pairs events which allows players without a regular partner to come along and to be guaranteed a game. We have additional teams of four evenings on the second and fifth Friday evenings too. All of our sessions are scored using bridgemates.

Please click here for a location map for Olicana Bridge Club.

If you need to ring the club during bridge sessions the number is 01943 602961

The annual teams of four competition for the Wildblood Trophy took place on Tuesday 25th October. Congratulations to the winners June Manning & Stephen Pollard and Judith Biles & Malcolm Copley. The runners up were Ian Jane & Peter Speller and John Williams  & John Mulligan.

Sunday 23rd October saw the start of this season's Yorkshire League. Results as follows:-

A team -v- Sheffield C AWAY WON 18 - 2

B team -v- Malton B HOME WON 13 - 7

C team -v- Doncaster C AWAY LOST 7 -13

D team -v- York D AWAY WON 17 - 3

E team -v- Huddersfield D HOME WON 12 - 8

A good start with four wins out of five with particularly strong wins for the A and D teams. Well done.

Our fourth seminar from the well respected bridge teacher Michael Byrne will take place on Friday 18th November from 10am to 12.15pm. The topic will be defending against pre-empts and is suitable for anyone seeking to improve their bridge. Cost is £7 for members and places will be limited to 40. Once again the seminar will consist of a 40 minute presenttion followed by a short refreshment break and then some illustrative hands for everyone to play. Please sign up in advance to assist event planning.

Please click here to download the October TD and Scorers Rota. As always this was correct at time of publication but does not take any subsequent amendments into account. Once again many thanks to everyone who helps our events run smoothly and in a friendly manner.

Here at Olicana we are keen to encourage as many as possible to be able to enjoy the marvellous game of bridge. The following courses commenced in September 2016.

Beginners Monday 9.30am (30 weekly 2 hour sessions). Tutor Diana Roberts (full)

Beginners Wednesday 7pm (30 weekly 2 hour sessions) Tutor David Guild

Beginners Accelerated Weekend Course (8 X 3 hour sessions Autumn weekends) Tutor Peter Speller

Year 2 Wednesday 2pm Tutor Christina Powne (full)

Year 3 Tuesday 2pm Tutor Les Rothnie

Year 3 Friday 10am Tutor Les Rothnie

Improvers Tuesday 10am Tutor Brian Davison

If you are interested in joining a class or finding out more information then please click here to contact us via the website giving full details of the type of class you are interested in.

Bridgewebs has an enhanced play it again feature. If you click on your scorecard from any event you have played in and then click on the play it again tab (then bridge solver on line) you can run through card by card how you might have played the hand and/or how you might have  defended it. Do try it out. You can also switch between a desktop layout and mobile/tablet layout (see tab on the left of the homepage) depending upon which device you are using.