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Many thanks to Mike Tedd for providing material on the early days of Porthcawl Congress. Our website already contained some information on the more recent years, but there is a huge gap between 1945 and 2008!!  If anyone has any pictures/posters/programmes etc for the intervening years which we could include, then I would be delighted if they could email me.

Christine Smith (Webmaster)

Click here to email Chris

WWBA Dates for your diary.......

Sun 23rd Feb  Mixed Pairs (Ossie Evans cup)
Sun 23rd Mar  Teams of 4 (Laidlaw Murray cup)
Both at Bancyfelin Village Hall
....hold the dates!
EWBA FEBRUARY BRIDGE CONGRESS
- 8 & 9th FEBRUARY '25

 

SATURDAY SWISS PAIRS - SUNDAY SWISS TEAMS - GREEN POINTED  (see poster)

Entry Form

For more details on all East Wales events check the EWBA Website.

Or please contact Area Tournament Organiser for help making up a team.

Welcome to the West Wales Area web site
What a brilliant Congress!!

 Porthcawl's 75th Anniversary Congress at the newly refurbished Seabank Hotel was deemed a huge success. The Friday afternoon kicked off with an Open Pairs session for the twenty-eight enthusiastic pairs who had arrived for an early start.  This was won by Susan Munday & Pat Jenkins. After dinner the competition began in earnest with fifty pairs competing in the first session of the Green pointed Swiss Pairs competition for the Red Dragon Cup,  Two further sessions were run on Saturday, resulting in a 3-way tie between John Holland & Raymond Semp, Ollie Burgess & Alice Coptcoat and Oliver Cowan & Stephen Berson. After an evening in the bar followed by a good night's sleep most returned on Sunday where they were joined by number of local teams to compete in the Swiss Teams event.  Thirty teams competed in two sessions, with an excellent finger buffet provided at half time. The eventual winners were John Holland & Raymond Semp, Paul Denning & Alistair Catchpole who were just 1 VP ahead of Ollie Burgess & Alice Coptcoat, Jason Hackett & Maria Whelan. 

Running a 'Holiday Congress' alongside the main Green Pointed events gave the place a great atmosphere, as did the singer who entertained us in the bar on Saturday evening.  For those preferring a more relaxed  game the Holiday Congress provided three stand alone Pairs sessions with seven pairs playing on the Friday evening and nine at each of the two Saturday sessions. The Friday winners were Jenny Rogers & Elizabeth Redrup and the  Saturday morning by Gail Wicks & Debbie Page. On the Saturday afternoon, Dave Nicklin & Linda Spiri shared the honours with Paul Sutton, whose original partner was unable to play. 

The whole weekend was planned and organised by Sarah Amos & Lee Collier (pictured above) and directed by Sarah, ably assisted by Rachel.

Full Results below                                                              Click names to see photo of winners

West Wales wins The 2024 President's Cup!

Congratulations to Martin Shepherd & John Gardner, Nigel Astley & Sarah Walters, Howard Goss & Rosie Preece (pictured above) who won this year's President's Cup Competition!

The Spickett Bowl was won by East Wales, with the West in 2nd place and the Perry Shield by North Wales, with the West coming 3rd.

Well done everyone....no wooden spoons for us this year.  click for full results

Porthcawl Library
Following the closure of the Porthcawl Bridge Club, the extensive library of Tutorials, Tips, and Conventions previously held on that site has now been re-homed on this site.
See side panel for detailed contents.
Vince Bevan Pairs 2024

Archive photo of Mike Reed and Barry Thorne,  winners of 2024 Vince Bevan trophy,  who escaped before anyone could take a new picture wink

2024 Swiss Pairs winners

Kevin & Tony with WWBA Chairman Steve Jarvis and ATO David Nicklin

Congratulations to Kevin Maddox & Tony Haworth who,for the second year running have won the WWBA Swiss Pairs , this time without losing a match!  Well done to Mike Malough & Ros Morgan, playing in their first Area event, who were the only pair to hold them to a draw!  In the lead for the first 4 rounds were Howard Goss & Rosie Preece, but then Kevin & Tony edged ahead and in the end proved to be just too strong for Howard & Rosie who ended joint 6th.  Vida Halford & Glyn Williams and Geoff & Julia Griffiths crept up through the field to finish 2nd & 3rd respectively.

Many thanks to Dave Nicklin for organising and directing another highly successful event. It was great to see some new faces playing yesterday, Twenty-four pairs registered, though unfortunately one pair had to drop out at short notice. This was the same number as played last year when we had a large contingent from East Wales who were unavailable this year. 

Hopefully face to Face Bridge is recovering at last smiley

Full result below

2024 John Isaac Pairs

After a closely fought competition this year's winners of the John Isaac Cup were Peter Milewski & Tim Dean, pictured above with WWBA Chair Steve Jarvis. Steve and his partner Mike Baker were not far behind, in second place, with last year's winners, Tony Haworth & Emer Disley, hot on their heels in third.  These three pairs were well in the lead at the lunch break and no-one was able to catch up with them in the afternoon session.  Congratulations to all three pairs!  Many thanks to our ATO, Dave Nicklin, for organising and directing this event, including a most enjoyable buffet lunch.

Unfortunately, once again we were unable to run the Ann Dolan competition, due to lack of entries sad.....maybe next year??

Full results below,

Results
Porthcawl Swiss Teams Overall
Saturday Holiday Pairs AM
Saturday Holiday Pairs PM
Porthcawl Friday Open Pairs
Director: Sarah
Friday Holiday Pairs
Porthcawl Swiss Pairs
Director: SA
WWBA Vince Bevan Pairs
Bancyfelin Village Hall
Director: Dave
WWBA Swiss Pairs
Bancyfelin Village Hall
Director: Dave Nicklin
WWBA AGM/John Isaac/Ann Dolan Pairs
Tumble Hall
Director: Dave
Laidlaw Murray - WWBA Teams of Four
Tumble Hall
Director: Sarah
Calendar
23rd Feb 2025
WWBA Mixed Pairs
Bancyfelin Village Hall 11am
23rd Mar 2025
WWBA Laidlaw Murray Teams
Bancyfelin Village Hall 11am
18th May 2025
WWBA AGM/John Isaac/Ann Dolan Pairs
Bancyfelin Village Hall 11am
14th Nov 2025
Porthcawl Congress
15th Nov 2025
Porthcawl Congress
16th Nov 2025
Porthcawl Congress