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Welcome to

THE

MANCHESTER BRIDGE CLUB

81 WELLINGTON ROAD, FALLOWFIELD,

MANCHESTER

M14 6BN

 

manchesterbridgeclub@hotmail.com

 

The Club’s regular opening and closing times are:

Monday - 12.30 to 16:30

Monday evening- 19:00 - 22:00

Tuesday - 13.00 -16.30

Tuesday evening - 18:45 - 22.00

Wednesday - 10.00 -1.00pm

Wednesday evening - 19.00 - 22.30

Thursday am - 10:00 -13:30

Note: Our opening times may differ when we host special events such as Halloween, Special Duplicates, Santa Claus Pairs and for Michael Byrne's seminars. Please check the Calendar on our website for the updated details. 

Closing times can only be extended by prior arrangement and need to conform with the Club’s obligations to our landlord and building security protocols.

Please ensure that you arrive at all our scheduled events at least 10 minutes before the start time as shown on the calendar so that we can start play at the scheduled time. If you are coming but are delayed please let the TD or event organiser know.  

Call the Club on 0161 455 3712 for any clarification

or email a committee member

BRIDGE ETIQUETTE

 *GREET OTHERS IN A FRIENDLY MANNER, PRIOR TO START OF PLAY ON EACH ROUND

* BE A GOOD "HOST" OR "GUEST" AT THE TABLE

* MAKE BRIDGE ENJOYABLE - ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT LESS EXPERIENCED PLAYERS

* GIVE CREDIT WHEN OPPONENTS MAKE A GOOD BID OR PLAY

*  AVOID INQUESTS PARTICULARLY DUE TO THE NOISE LEVEL IT CREATES

* ENSURE THAT YOUR MOBILE PHONE IS ON SILENT

* ENJOY THE COMPANY AS WELL AS THE GAME

5 Card Majors
5 Card Majors

For all our members who have already switched or are considering moving to 5 Card Majors and 2 over 1 Game Forcing, this book by Neil Rosen is perhaps the closest to the systems taught at Manchester Bridge Club.

It is easy to read, structured and offers many quizzes and examples to test your understanding. Highly recommended!!
If you would like a copy the ISBN is 978 108 915 4877

RECEIVING OUR E-MAILS?
RECEIVING OUR E-MAILS?

Are you receiving e-mails from the bridge club? If not, here are a number of possible reasons:

 1) Your email address has been blocked from receiving emails from Bridgewebs. Check the status of your email address, and resubscribe if it is blocked or suspended

2) We do not have your correct email address registered. You can check this via attempting to set/reset password in the Members Only login screen

3) If we do not have your correct email address, please let us know via the Contact Form or speak to any committee member

 

Welcome to The Manchester Bridge Club
2025 national Garden Cities Final - MBC finishes second
2025 national Garden Cities Final - MBC finishes second

Manchester Bridge Club competed in the final of the national Team of 8 Garden Cities Trophy at West Midlands BC in Solihull on Saturday June 7th

The Garden Cities Trophy is a prestigious tournament which (for Manchester County based clubs) starts by winning the Gazette Cup in February to qualify to represent the County at the regional qualifiers, which this year were held at Sheffield Bridge Club, four weeks ago. Our team won the regional 'semi-final' and therefore qualified for the final for the third time in four years.

On Saturday June 7th our Team of Eight was John Hassett & Rhona Goldenfield; Jeff Morris & David Sarabowski; Paul Hackett & Mike Goldsmith and Paul Murray & Andrew Woodcock (pictured minus Andrew).

Despite some chances to catch The Avenue Bridge Club representing Sussex, our team couldn't quite overtake them during the course of the 56 board competition.

Thanks to our Team of Eight as well as Justin Hackett & Martin Taylor who played in the Gazette Cup and the semi-final but could not play in the final due to holidays.

Onwards to next year!

Mike Barlow RIP
Mike Barlow RIP

We are saddened to let members know of the death of Mike Barlow on 3rd June after a long illness. Despite his illness, Mike set himself a personal goal to reach his 88th birthday, which he achieved on May 16th this year.

Mike was an active member of the club for over 40 years and played regularly at the Wednesday evening duplicate, in the league and in local competitions. Like all of us he adapted to on line bridge during the pandemic and was still playing on line when illness prevented him getting to the club.

He was a quiet, unassuming and mild mannered man with an engaging smile and an infectious laugh, which those of you who played with him will well remember.

We send our sincere condolences to his wife and family.

The funeral will be held on Monday 23rd June at 1.00pm at Vale Royal Crematorium, Shurlach Lane, Davenham, Northwich. CW9 8RP and afterwards  at Room One, Hartford Golf Club, Burrows Hill, Hartford, Norwich. CW8 3AP.

Any donations can be made to MacMillan Cancer Support and Marie Curie.

NB could anyone planning to join the family for refreshments afterwards, please email 

s.braid@hotmail.com

Masterpoint Achievements in May 2025

Congratulations to the following members on achieving the status of  Local Master in the month of May  

Paul O'Brien  Local Master
Denise Evans  Local Master
John Dunn  Local Master
Stephen Dauncey  Local Master
Anne Jerrold  Local Master


Well done all of you 

Mutton Madras - Winners of Manchester County Bridge Association 2025
Mutton Madras - Winners of Manchester County Bridge Association 2025

Mutton Madras won Division One of the Manchester County Bridge Association League by the tightest of margins at our club.

After a very close battle with St Titus, the Manchester Bridge Club based, Mutton Madras team won the Manchester Teams League by only 0.5 VPs by winning their last game by 14.6 to 5.4 VPs against Grasshoppers at the Club on Wednesday May 14th. 

Congratulations to MBC members Justin Hackett, Jason Hackett, Barbara Hackett, Martin Taylor, Paul Hackett and Adrian Kenworthy

Beginner's Course

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Beginners Bridge Taster Courses.

If you are interested in joining one of our future courses please fill in the form below and we will keep you updated about our plans for our next courses.

Our next beginners' courses will start towards the end of September 2025

Please be careful when you enter your email address. You will always receive a personal response in 24 hours. 

Each course will last 10 weeks and covers the basics of play and bidding. We teach the 5 card major, strong No Trump and short club system.  We will also cover basic defensive tactics.

Most importantly, the classes will be friendly and sociable. Bridge can be a complicated game and will stretch your mind, but we aim to make bridge fun to learn and hope you will quickly come to love the game as much as we do.  Once your course is finished we have a wide range of supported, follow on sessions for you to join to continue to learn this wonderful game.

The course will cost £80 payable in advance which will include membership of our club until the end of December 25

Interested?  Find out more by emailing Jan on jelancaster021@gmail.com or completing the online form below

  

 
New IntoBridge Schedule
New IntoBridge Schedule

We currently have two IntoBridge sessions each week.  These are on a Monday and Friday afternoon at 2pm.  All these sessions are well supported and will continue. We are no longer running the online Swiss Pairs on a Thursday evening.

Supervised Sessions
Supervised Sessions

We now have supervised sessions for beginners, learners & improvers at the club:

Monday afternoon at 1pm for Improvers with Paul Murray.

 Monday evening at 7:15pm for beginners with Frank/Chris

Tuesday evening at 7pm all levels with Nicholas

Wednesday morning at 10:30 for beginners with Susan Triggs

Thursday morning at 10:30 for beginners with Susan Triggs.

Members £6 & Visitors £8

Everyone is welcome

Online Account for Online Games
Online Account for Online Games

Please be aware that the BridgeWebs attendance Module is not a real time system. It reflects entry fees spent on online and face-to-face games but does not reflect money paid into your online account until it is manually updated from the Club's bank statement. Our 'WebMaster', Dave Fernley performs these updates periodically- usually weekly. If you need to know your balance between updates, call Paul or Dave.

The new Bridgewebs Attendance Module for tracking payment money for online games is now live.

It provides you with a real-time view of the games you have played, the current balance of your account and payments made and received by your account. 

To see this information you will need to log on to the Members Only area of the website and then select thePayments Account tab.
Detailed instructions logging onto this area are available here

A detailed description of the Online Account, how it works, etc, is also available here within the Members Only Area (log-on needed).

Account statements will also be sent out periodically by email. This ensures that people who choose not to actively monitor their account balance are still aware of it. The statement provides a regular update to non-members who play in our online games who do not have access the member's area and therefore the real time benefits of this system.

Weekly Schedule

Download our latest interactive activity schedule - BBC Tiny Happy PeopleSee Calendar on the right of this home page for our Weekly Schedule

Face to Face table fees for Duplicates at the Club are £4 for fully paid-up MBC members & £6 for Guests

Supervised Face to Face table fees at the Club are £6 for fully paid-up MBC members & £8 for Guests

(includes free tea/coffee & biscuits and occasional treats! However, sandwiches/supper will not be served)

Online bridge entry is £3.75 for members & £4.50 for non-members

For Online games a pre-arranged partner is preferable. However, if possible, partners can be found after you log on to our tournaments. Just wait on Partnership Desk on IntoBridge. 

Please transfer entry fee (or more for convenience / multiple games) into the MBC bank account (see below).

MBC will reduce your balance after each session played and email you with a regular statement to help you stay in credit.

The Manchester Bridge Club Bank details are –

Natwest Sort Code 01-02-02   Account Number  21867577

Please put your First Name and Surname as the payment reference

Thank you for supporting The Manchester Bridge Club

Save the Date

Dates for your diary - more details will follow  

 

On and from Thursday  15th May we will be running our relaxed duplicate sessions twice a month on the 1st  and 3rd Thursdays of each month 

We will be restarting Swiss Pairs on May 29th and then on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays in each month.  Next Swiss Pairs is Thursday 27th June 7.15pm

Ben Beever Memorial Trophy event Wednesday 2nd July 7.15 

Nicholas Greer's next Seminar is Friday morning 8th August - Dummy Reversal aka How to break the ruffing rules and ruff in the long hand.

Michael Byrne's next seminar will now not be until the Autumn.  The date we have pencilled in is the afternoon of Friday 19th September - topic to be arranged - any suggestions contact Susan - grasan30@gmail.com

Santa Claus Pairs will be on Sunday 14th December 2025 - you heard it here first !  Carol singer booked.  Let us have your requests nearer the time.

A new event - Christmas Party Duplicate Thursday evening 18th December. Carol singer booked.  Let us have your requests nearer the time.

Watch this space

Club Bank Account Change

Please note that the Club's bank account has changed from HSBC to NatWest

Please transfer funds into your Club account via the new NatWest account with immediate effect

The Manchester Bridge Club

Bank : NatWest

Sort Code 01-02-02

Account Number 21867577

Transfers made in error to the HSBC account will be credited as normal until the HSBC account is closed. Thereafter, they will automatically be transferred to our NatWest account by HSBC. 

If you have any questions, please call Paul Murray or Dave Fernley

Results
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
Club Evening Duplicate F2F
Improvers Supervised play
Club Evening Duplicate F2F
Club Afternoon Duplicate
Paul's Supervised Duplicate with Lesson
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
Evening Swiss Pairs F2F
Wednesday Pairs
Club Afternoon Duplicate
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
Calendar
Mon 23rd Jun 2025
Paul's Supervised Duplicate with Lesson
1:00pm
Mon 23rd Jun 2025
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
2:00pm
Mon 23rd Jun 2025
Beginners Supervised Play
7.15pm
Tue 24th Jun 2025
Club Afternoon Duplicate
1:15pm
Tue 24th Jun 2025
Supervised Play, all abilities
7:00pm
Wed 25th Jun 2025
Club Evening Duplicate F2F
7:15pm
Wed 25th Jun 2025
Beginners/Improvers Supervised play
10.30am
Thu 26th Jun 2025
Evening Swiss Pairs F2F
Fri 27th Jun 2025
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
2:00pm
Fri 27th Jun 2025
Michael Byrnes Seminar
1:30pm
Mon 30th Jun 2025
Paul's Supervised Duplicate with Lesson
1:00pm
Mon 30th Jun 2025
IntoBridge Afternoon Duplicate
2:00pm
Mon 30th Jun 2025
Beginners Supervised Play
7.15pm
Tue 1st Jul 2025
Club Afternoon Duplicate
1:15pm
Tue 1st Jul 2025
Supervised Play, all abilities
7:00pm