| Bank holiday Monday 6th May - No Bridge |
No Bridge on May Day Bank Holiday 6th May - decision made by a show of hands at Monday session on April 29th
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| AGM - Tuesday 14th May 6.00 pm |
 Tuesday May 14th 6.00 pm: the Club's AGM, followed first by a "farewell party" with light refreshments and then by the normal Tuesday duplicate session.
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| Seventh Round Shelley Handicapped Teams - Final round for the season played.Thursday 18th April |
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The seventh round of the Shelley was played on 18th April. The winners were Clive's team coming up with a flying finish to the season, many, many congratulations. Robin's team 2nd and Anne Seymour's team in third place. Full results will be posted here shortly, keep looking! David's picture will replace the temporary one shown here but that may not happen before Monday, sorry
Many thanks to David for directing throughout the season and to Terry for all the work each session to calculate the handicaps, spot on with one team that ended up with a total of zero!
Sadly the last time this competition will be played at the showground. A little history of the trophy given in about 1964 by Frederick Shelley. One player remembers Nora his wife from golfing events. Can anyone come up with more history of the trophy? It even predates the club being located at the showground, in 1964 was it meeting at The Swan.
The round 7 handicapped results shown here, Handicaps were again recalculated for round 7 with some different subs in different teams from last month taking part! Terry has had to recalculate the handicaps most rounds, thank you Terry. Thank you again David for directing, The raw unhandicapped round 7 results can be seen here (best in the "Classic" bridgewebs score style).
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| Move to Haling Dene, Penkridge and Tixall June 2024 |
Members will know that the Committe has made the unanimous decision to transfer
- our duplicate sessions to the Haling Dene Centre in Penkridge ST19 5DT, and
- our teaching sessions to Tixall Village Hall ST18 0XT.
Our lease of rooms at the Showground will not be renewed when the lease expires at the end of June. These are the key dates to note:
- Tuesday May 14th 6.00 pm: the Club's AGM, followed first by a "farewell party" with light refreshments and then by the normal Tuesday duplicate session.
- Friday 24th May: final duplicate session at the Showground.
There will be no Club activity after 24th May until the week beginning June 3rd
- Monday June 3rd: First duplicate session at the Haling Dene Centre, Penkridge (1.15 for a 1.30 start).
- Thursday June 6th: First teaching session at Tixall Village Hall.
During June, we will be clearing the current Showground premises of all remaining Club items.
Members are urged to continue supporting the Club in every way possible as we make the transition to the new venues and adjust to our new circumstances.
Michael Metcalf, Chair SBC
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| Membership Fees Due 1st April |
 Membership fees of £15.00 are due from 1st April 2024. Click here for "How to pay us" and please could you reference your payment as "subs".
If you are not planning to renew your membership this year please let Carol know by email.
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| Morning Lessons, 10 a.m. Thursday and Friday mornings |
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Lessons:
- Robin's intermediate lessons: Thursday morning lessons.
- Terry's Improvers lessons: Friday morning lessons.
Robin has produced plenty of material for the website, including one on Splinter bids, Gambling 3NT, CRO, Redoubles, Trial Bids, Jacoby and his all time most read page on McKenny signals and Discards. Summary of his lessons can be seen here with links to the individual lessons.
Robin's Thursday morning popular lessons for intermediates start at 10 a.m. (please contact Robin if you would like to attend) as do Terry's Friday morning lessons for improvers (please contact Terry if you would like to attend those). Please contact Ann if you would like to join beginner's lessons.
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