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!

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

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 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 14^th. 

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

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

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.

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

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.

See 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