Best to avoid using Baswich Lane as a through road from 6th Feb - 27th March during rush hours. Four way lights will be in action at some point along the road. If you are a FaceBook user go to https://www.facebook.com/BaswichCommunityGroup/?locale=en_GB for local Community Group News. 

The work is being carried out in 4 phases 

1.  Shipston Road, Dolphin Close, Farmdown Road, 9 Feb - 20 Feb
2.  Baswich Crest. 16 Feb - 27 Feb
3.  Chartwell Road. 23 Feb - 6 Mar
4.  Porlock Avenue. Sandringham Road, Brendon Close , 2

Best to avoid using Baswich Lane as a through road from 6th Feb - 27th March during rush hours. Four way lights will be in action at some point along the road. If you are a FaceBook user go to https://www. ..........

Lessons held at  9:45 for 10 am on Thursdays and Fridays 

• Robin's intermediate lessons: Thursday morning  lessons on 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursdays of the month - Next Lesson March 5th  please contact Robin if you will be attending this lesson, no lesson March 19th as Shelley is being played later in the day
• Terry's Improvers lessons: Friday mornings. 

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.

Lessons held at  9:45 for 10 am on Thursdays and Fridays 

• Robin's intermediate lessons: Thursday morning  lessons on 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursdays of the month - Next Lesson March 5th  please contact Robin if you will be attending this lesson, no lesson March 19th as Shelley is being played later in the day
• Terry's Improvers lessons: Friday mornings. 

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. ..........

The AGM will take place on Thursday 26th March @ 1:30pm, AFTER a morning Duplicate session, which starts at 10am.

Lunch will be around 12:30pm, followed by the AGM.

1. The Committee invites members to submit resolutions for the AGM Agenda, with the names of proposer and seconder, to the Communications Secretary (Angela Hensby) no later than 19th March 2026.
2.  Nominations for Committee positions are also invited and should be written on the nomination form on the notice board in the Club Room prior to the start of the AGM.  

The AGM will take place on Thursday 26th March @ 1:30pm, AFTER a morning Duplicate session, which starts at 10am.

Lunch will be around 12:30pm, followed by the AGM.

1. The Committee invites members to submit resolutions for the AGM Agenda, with the names of proposer and seconder, to the Communications Secretary (Angela Hensby) no later than 19th March 2026. ..........

The fifth Round  was played on Thursday 19th February still with sadly only 6 teams.  David  produced  movement instructions for the teams to ensure the movement went well - 6 teams makes for a more complicated movement and involves one team to share boards for every round!    David himself  ensured the boards for the sharing teams always in the right place at the right time.

Raw results for fifth round can be seen here.  A clear win by over two furlongs for Anne's team, nearly as big a lead as in round 4.  This time two other teams had a positive score before handicaps taken into account!    A change in the leader board, Anne Seymour's team now in the lead, with Dave's team second and Janet's team third.

For cumulative results as at the end of round 5 click here beware, the team numbering for the round adjusted because of the missing team - look for the captains names.  Please check round 5 raw results against your scorecards and report to David and the webmaster if you find an error asap.

Many thanks to David for directing and for ensuring everything went so smoothly again on the night as ever. 

Team members and reserves please remember to keep the third Thursday of each month free for the Shelley until at least March 2026.  Next and final round March 19th . Please email David with names of team members for this round asap for calculation of handicaps.

The fifth Round  was played on Thursday 19th February still with sadly only 6 teams.  David  produced  movement instructions for the teams to ensure the movement went well - 6 teams makes for a more complicated movement and involves one team to share boards for every round!    David himself  ensured the boards for the sharing teams always in the right place at the right time.

Raw results for fifth round can be seen here.  A clear win by over two furlongs for Anne's team, nearly as big a lead as in round 4.  This time two other teams had a positive score before handicaps taken into account!    A change in the leader board, Anne Seymour's team now in the lead, with Dave's team second and Janet's team third.

For cumulative results as at the end of round 5 click here beware, the team numbering for the round adjusted because of the missing team - look for the captains names. ..........

Please support the STFRD club Thursday evening club session - turn up in the club room around 6:45 with your partner.

If you would like to give Bridge Club Live a try click here for the basic instructions, around 27 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.

Please support the STFRD club Thursday evening club session - turn up in the club room around 6:45 with your partner. ..........