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Members will be very sorry to hear that Rachael, known by many as Gill, Ashmore died on Tuesday 19th March. Rachael had been a member of the club for many years playing at most of the sessions at one time or another until the Covid lock down in 2020. She played in the Tuesday and Thursday evening sessions on a regular basis usually with her late husband, Alan, or with Pam Allen as in the Shelley. Always a popular player who encouraged new players.
Our thoughts are with her family at this sad time.
Service will be on Monday 15th April at 1.30 pm at Cannock Chase crematorium, Heath Hayes. No flowers please but donations may be made to St Giles hospice.
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ABOUT THE CLUB |
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Contact Numbers:
- 01785 600260 (Chairman),
- 01785 665020 (Secretary),
- 01889 801996 (Captain),
- 01785 246611 (Club, during bridge sessions).
Stafford Bridge Club is located at the back of the Grandstand on the County Showground, ST18 0BD (Ordnance Survey ref: SJ 958 053). This "Staffs & Shrops" EBU affiliated club meets regularly throughout the year except during the County Show etc. See 'Club Sessions and Times', and 'Calendar'.
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County Events |
A green-pointed SSCBA teams competition, the, qualifying event to select a team to represent the County at the EBU Pachabo Cup 8th/9th June and the regional Midlands Challenge Bowl to be held at Newcastle in September, click for details.
The green-pointed event was won by a Stafford member and his partner from Stone, both are regular Shelley players. Five Stafford players took part in this and enjoyed a wonderful meal in addition to the bridge. Note that the National final is now to be played at Yarnfield Park, Stone in 15th/16th June, spectators allowed?.
SSCBA Teams of Four League 2023/24.
10 teams entered, including 2 from Stafford, and the first round was played on 14th September. Click here for details
SSCBA virtual BBO county on line group at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays
If you would like to be a member of this “Club” please email the Membership Secretary – John Withers on jwithersx@gmail.com, with your real name, your BBO user name (exactly as you print it), EBU number (if you have one), contact telephone number and email address. (This has to be done also by those players already registered with BBO.) Only those that have registered with John will be able to take part in the SSCBA Virtual Club Events, please give him a day or two to organise this prior to the event you wish to join and get some practice games on BBO. Click for information on BBO See also how to indicate your basic system to your oppo through the chat manager, Using Chat Manager in BBO - Bing video. Please also take time to read Paul's comments on Announcing and Alerting on BBO.
Midland Inter-County Mixed Teams Event took place 9th July on RealBridge
This is a new event and a chance to get different partnerships engaged in representing the county, one Stafford member played in the SSCBA team which came equal third out of nine teams, click for the results.
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A green-pointed SSCBA teams competition, the, qualifying event to select a team to represent the County at the EBU Pachabo Cup 8th/9th June and the regional Midlands Challenge Bowl to be held at Newcastle in September, click for details.
The green-pointed event was won by a Stafford member and his partner from Stone, both are regular Shelley players. Five Stafford players took part in this and enjoyed a wonderful meal in addition to the bridge. Note that the National final is now to be played at Yarnfield Park, Stone in 15th/16th June, spectators allowed?. ..........
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Please help the webmaster improve the website. |
Please tell the webmaster what you like and, more importantly, what you do not like about the website. After questionnaire at AGM and continued on Friday 12th May 2023 attempt made to de-clutter the home page! Is that an improvement? Click here to "have your say". Thank you
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Please tell the webmaster what you like and, more importantly, what you do not like about the website. ..........
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OnLine Bridge |
If you would like to give Bridge Club Live a try click here for the basic instructions, around 35 SBC members are active on BCL. A Stafford BCL virtual SBC club runs on Thursday evenings and a friendly BCL club runs on Tuesday mornings. The SSCBA set up a County wide Bridge Base Online virtual club that meets on Wednesday evenings, see here for advice on how to get started with BBO. A new third option is RealBridge where Newcastle Under Lyme, EBU and Midlands regional events take place. Please don't see these as either/or options but rather as different ways of enjoying online bridge which add variety to your game.
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