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It was lovely to celebrate Julia Barton's imminent 90th birthday at Bekesbourne's duplicate game on Thursday 18th April.

Julia very generously provided some delicious champagne for us all to enjoy and share her great achievement.

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday Julia and an extra special year ahead!

It is with great sadness that we have learned that Malcolm Judge died peacefully yesterday afternoon after a short illness. He had been a member of Tyler Hill and Pilgrims Bridge Club, along with other clubs in the district, since its inception in 1991.

He played regularly with both John and Margery Rumbelow, Ken Wheeler, Maria Studzienska, Moira Holt, Stan Adamson, Bob Stockbridge, Mary Skelton, and won many cups and trophies at the bridge table in all the clubs in the area

Very sad news about the recent loss at the weekend of one of our members, Dave McVey. We shall be holding a minutes silence for him at the start of our Tuesday evening game this week and be publishing more about Dave's involvement in the game + his many achievements in our next members Newsletter. He won over 30 Kent Cups between 1976 and 2019 in addition to our Men’s Pairs in 2019. He was a longstanding member of both Pilgrims Bridge Club as well as ours and in all activity always displayed great sportsmanship and respect to his opponents. Many of our members will have known Dave with great fondness for a very long period and we all extend our condolences to his family.

Click here for a link to an article on 'KCBA's website

Please note that a new rule has been agreed by the committee at their recent meeting: 
Competitions can only be won by current members of THBC who have played at the Club on at least 6 occasions in the year preceding the competition.

Congratulations to Ron Davis & Mark Benson, the 2019 winners of our 'Club Pairs' competition ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 

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Prize presententations at the club's AGM on 9th April 2019 in the Tyler Hill Memorial Hall (currently undergoing internal refurbishment) were given by Simon Westerman. the new Chairman. Simon takes over from Margaret Crawley who has just retired after seven years of dedicated service. Both Nicky Adamson (also retiring, handing over the responsibility of 'Treasurer' to Louise Preston) and Margaret Crawley were given surprise envelopes ("for the garden") as tokens of the club's appreciation of all their hard work and commitment over the years. Unfortunately, apart from the 'Handicap Pairs' (Janet Batson & Margaret Crawley) and the 'Ladies Pairs' (Nicky Adamson & Margaret Crawley), not all winners were able to be present at the AGM to accept their prizes: Ron Davis was without his partner David McVey ('Mens Pairs'), Margery Rumbelow was missing her partner Ken Wheeler ('Mixed Pairs') and neither Martin Hammer nor his partner John Williams could take home their 'Club Championship' cup.

• Frances Gerth (Secretary)
• Simon Westerman (Committee Member)
• ​Nicky Adamson (Treasurer)
• Margaret Crawley (Chairman)
• Janet Batson (Committee Member)
• Patricia Pengelly (Committee Member)

We visited the Air Ambulance base at Rochester Airport on Monday 18th  to present our cheque for £2,500 raised at the Andrew Robson bridge day.

Congratulations to Nicky Adamson & Margartet Crawley and Ron Davis & David McVey who are the new 2019 'Ladies and Mens Pairs' Competition winners with both pairs achieving identical scores of 60%. Double congratulations to ♣ ♦  Nicky and Margaret ♥ ♠  for repeating their success of 2018!

This special 'bridge seminar' event (held on Friday 18th January at the fantastic venue of Kent University) was a great success with Andrew Robson keeping everyone on their toes! We were full to capacity and raised £2240 for the 'Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance', well in excess of our expectations. A huge THANK YOU to everyone involved, especially the hard-working committee (pictured above with Andrew Robson).

ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED!  Andrew Robson's 'BRIDGE MASTERCLASS'::All are welcome to join us at the 'University of Kent', Canterbury on FRIDAY 18th January 2019 in aid of 'Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust'. We are delighted to be hosting this special event from 10am - 4pm, offering two 'Tuition & Play' sessions led by Andrew Robson with light refreshments and a buffet lunch (+ glass of wine) all included in the £40 admission ticket. Non-members are welcome. Click here for details + ENTRY FORM

Congratulations again to Margery Rumbelow & Ken Wheeler,'Mixed Pairs' Champions 2018, repeating their success back in 2014!

Congratulations to Malcolm Lewis & Nicky Adamson, winners of the 'Keith Rains Memorial Bridge Pairs' event on Sunday 14th October. Many thanks to Keith's family for providing lunch + refreshments , to 'Canterbury Bridge Club' for covering the cost of the hall hire and especially to all the players who participated... a massive £500 was raised for Pilgrims Hospices.

Winners of the Tyler Hill 'Summer Swiss Pairs' Competition, 16th July 2016: Nicky Adamson (1st), Julian Stowell & Alex Womar (3rd), Isabelle Debuisson (2nd), Malcolm Lewis (1st)