| AGM 2025 |
The 2025 AGM will take place at the Club on Monday 10th November at 7.20 prompt.
The winner of the Trophy for Improvers will be announced at the AGM and the Trophy presented.
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| ESSEX LEAGUES 2025-26 |
We're pleased to say that the Club has three teams in the Essex League this year, two of them in the top division. Good luck to all concerned.
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| TELTSCHER TROPHY SUCCESS FOR PAUL LAMFORD AND WALES |
Paul was a member of the triumphant Wales team in the prestigious Teltscher Trophy held in Dublin on 16th - 18th May. He and his partner were the highest scoring pair in the competition. Many congratulations to Paul and the rest of the Wales team. Click on this box to download a detailed and entertaining account......
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| The Times - Bridge, the Great Game |
When she’s not presenting Strictly or shepherding contestants on The Traitors, Claudia Winkleman might be found sharpening her bridge skills, according to this article in The Times. She joins a band of celebrities and international figures who have shared a passion for the game. This illustrious group includes Omar Sharif, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Winston Churchill, Gandhi, Buster Keaton and Deng Xiaoping! According to Andrew Robson: “While it may be something that a younger generation might file under “later”, at some point we inevitably fancy a bit of ruff.”
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| A tribute to Colin Elliott |
Colin was a long-standing and very skilled member of the club. He died on the 29th September after a long illness. Despite increasing disability, Colin retained his love of bridge and his astonishing memory for bridge hands. His long-standing friend and bridge partner Martin Baker would visit him in the care home where he lived latterly and take hands to discuss. Colin would retain information about all four hands by memory and offer advice on how they could be played.
Colin was a regular club player at both Waltham Forest and Woodberry bridge clubs. In 2012 he won, along with team mates Winnie Godber, John Stimson and Martin Baker, The Essex Swiss Pairs Hellier Trophy.
Colin was Chair of Waltham Forest from 2013 to 2016 and worked tirelessly to promote the club and to seek to build membership. He believed in encouraging new members to improve and to engage in the various forms of club and competitive bridge. We are very grateful to his sister Chris who is donating to Waltham Forest Bridge Club a trophy in his memory which will be awarded to the player who has improved the most each year.
Please use the following link for a tribute to Colin from another long-standing partner Paul Lamford.
woodberrybc.blogspot.com
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| AMAZING RESULT! |
 Many congratulations to Ian Yeats and Anne Convery who scored a stellar 82.64% in the duplicate on 30th September. Any score over 80% is extremely rare.
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| HARROGATE CONGRESS SUCCESS |
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A fantastic result for Anne Catchpole (on the right in the photo) in the Swiss Teams at the EBU's recent Harrogate Congress. Her team, including her two nephews Jamie and Liam Fegarty, and Rachel Bingham (daughter of long-time WFBC member Judy Bourne) won the Trophy by a convincing margin, beating a number of internationals in the process. Very many congratulations to all concerned!.
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