Congratulations to Pauline Lang who is celebrating her 90th birthday this week (September 28th) at home in Congleton with family and friends. Pauline has been a member of Bramhall Village Bridge Club and Cheadle Hulme Bridge Club for many years and is possibly our longest playing member.  She has had many successes in club and county events and further afield with partners including Mike Parr, Malcolm Robinson and Pat Burrows. She still plays several times a week! at Congleton and Chelford clubs - Face-to-Face, on-line at B&CHBC and in social games with friends.

Inter-Club teams match v Altrincham Bridge Club

We are presently finalising our team of 24 players for our annual inter-club teams match against Altrincham Bridge Club.

It will be held at Bramhall on Wednesday October 21st:  7.30pm.

Our team will include experts, non-experts and newcomers. If you would like to be considered for our team then please contact Barbara at babsandalec@hotmail.com   There will be no charge.

Mixed Pairs

Congratulations to winners of the Mixed Pairs competition on September 23rd: Ann Thornton and Tom Slater, Barbara Eastabrook and Stuart Shalom. Click HERE for the full results.

16 pairs had a social and competitive evening.

It is some months since I sent a newsletter, so it is timely to be in touch with our members with so much scheduled for the Autumn.

Thank you to all who have recently renewed their membership for the year starting this month. We have more than 250 members to include our present cohort of beginners who are now starting their 3^rd term.

New Seminars

In addition to our beginners' classes, all our duplicate sessions remain busy and successful. An exciting addition to our programme is a series of seminars for our newcomers and non-experts: on Mondays, taught by Nicholas Greer. Further information is available from Ann at a.thornton143@live.com

Club Diary Dates

We are continuing with our Wednesday night special events and have 3 planned for this autumn:

Wednesday September 23 Mixed Pairs

Wednesday November 4^th: Butler Pairs – IMP Scoring

Wednesday December 2^nd Handicapped Pairs

As well as the following events

Wednesday October 21^st: is our annual Inter-club teams' event against Altrincham Bridge Club. Our team will include experts, non-experts and newcomers. If you would like to play for B&CHBC then let me know by October 1^st at chair@cheadlehulmebridgeclub.org

Monday/Tuesday November 9^th/10^th Children in Need Simultaneous Pairs

Tuesday December 15^th Newcomers' Christmas Lunch

Saturday December 19^th Christmas Party

County and National Competitions

We are also hosting on Sunday December 6^th: the MCBA Ben Franks Competition (Championship Pairs & Corwen Qualifier) – being held at Bramhall.

MCBA Leagues

It will soon be time to sign up for the MCBA winter leagues. This year, once again, there will be face-to-face leagues, and also on-line leagues: your team can play in either or both. In addition, the newcomers/beginners' leagues will be repeated.

Also, the Goldstone Cup and Higson Cup entries will need to be submitted soon.

EBU -NICKO

If you would like to play for B&CHBC in the National Inter-Club Knock-Out Teams competition, then please form you team of 4 and let Barbara know by September 30^th at babsandalec@hotmail.com The centre pays the entrance fees.

Regards, Alec, September 2026

The centre is pleased to announce the start of monthly Monday morning seminars. These are a follow up to the beginners courses that have recently ended.  They will focus on a particular topic each week that is of interest to our newcomers, and are aimed at new and non expert players.

They will be run by Nicholas Greer, a professional teacher, and after his presentations there will be several boards to play, with reference to the topic, followed by analysis and discussion, with handouts.

The first seminar is on Monday the 7th September in the Rhodes Room from 10.30 - 12.30. All members are welcome, £5 to include tea/coffee/biscuits.

Mystery Teams

16 pairs participated in the Mystery Teams event on Wednesday August 19th. Team-mates were drawn at random and the final round led to a very close finish. Joint winners were Roger Hopton/Tessa Connolly/Carol Mamam/Lewis Majid; and Dee Connolly/Ann Wood/Kathy Priestley/Karen Sandler.

More Wednesday 'specials' are scheduled for the autumn..watch this space for details.

Bridge and Bubbly Party Night

A party night was held on August 15th, organised by Rachel Hardcastle in memory of her parents - Joyce and Bill White.  60 players enjoyed an excellent bridge competition, a sumptuous buffet with lots of bubbly, and a raffle with a magnificent array of donated prizes.  £1,500 was raised for charity.  The bridge winners were Mary Green and Victor Ridding, Barbara Eastabrook and Stuart Shalom.

Championship Teams

The Centre's Championship Teams attracted 9 teams on June 17th to include a number of our newcomers. The winners were team Harris (Rob Harris and Barbara Lewis, Pam Stone and Gil Fletcher) and the top newcomers team were Fifty Shades of Play (Steve Polley and Julie Suckling, David Ware and Deborah Regan).

Click here for the full results.

Our next Wednesday night special will be on Wednesday July 15th

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