We are sad to have to report that Keith Graham passed away on Thursday morning, surrounded by family.

Keith has been a member since 2017, when he moved to Worcester, and played quite a lot with Fred Rochelle on Tuesdays in the early months, as well as several other people on Tues/Wed sessions, before settling in to regular partnerships with George  (Tuesdays) and Richard  (Wednesdays). In lockdown, Keith played loads of Bridge on BCL, including many  sessions with Richard in our Pairs leagues; and since lockdown has been a regular Tuesday player.  He made quite an impression on those who have played with and against him with his quiet and gentlemanly good humour, and this was warmly felt in many good-wishes messages in a card which we prepared in the days before he died, but which sadly he was not to receive.

We are told by his daughter-in-law that his funeral will be held on Thursday 25th April, at Worcester Crematorium at 1.45pm.

Pictures below show Keith enjoying bridge and food at Cafe and party events.

At the AGM on Wednesday 10th April trophies were awarded to the winners on the competitions in 2023. A historic record of who won is on the left hand panel under Roll of Honour (or by clicking on this text).

After the AGM there were 2 teams events and wine prizes went to  - Simon Clay, Vicki Advani, Brigid Amor & Martin Pollard in the 'Try Teams' section.

Also to John Dowbiggin, David Waide,Tim Keates & Yvette Waide for winning the main section. 

Further wine prizes went to Peter Cole, Sue Tadman, Richard Arrowsmith & Roland Draper as winners of the 9 high teams in the main field.

Congratulations to WBC Ledger, (Maureen, Jimmy, Steve, Geoffrey, Alan) who won the WCBA INTER-CLUB Teams, beating Droitwich into 2nd place. This completes a clean sweep of this year's inter-club teams competitions, with different but overlapping line-ups: The Healey Cup (November), the Ron Allen Trophy in March, and the Inter-Club Teams (Nov-Mar).

Well done to the WBC team, pictured above, (l to r Rob, Jane, Jimmy, Maureen,  Alan, Mike, John, Brian) who won the County's "Ron Allen Trophy" (teams of eight) event on Sat 2nd March, and have qualified to represent WCBA in the Garden Cities Trophy. 

The Calendar has now been extended to December 2024.

Our first EVER Swiss Teams at Hallow was contested by 10 teams; the winners were Ian McAlroy, Steve Betteley, Sue Evans and Sarah Wenden. Winning pair for XIMPs were Martyn Hills and Ian Kemp. Well done to all, and many thanks to Paul H who ran this for us!

We are looking into the possibility of running a Swiss PAIRS event (similar principle) at some point in the future.

Many thanks to all who have completed GDPR forms; we now have nearly all members' forms completed now. Trish won the prize for the first completed one!

What GDPR means for you is summarised on WBC Privacy Policy Summary which you can find here, and our full policy can be viewed here.

If you have not yet completed a form, you can download the  blank PDF from here; First SAVE the PDF to your desktop, then RE-OPEN it, tick the boxes and fill in the details. Then email back to Mike (mike1958v@mail.com).

Members might like to know more about the Roger Bowles Bridge Library.

After Roger's tragic death in Dec 2015, his widow donated his extensive collection of Bridge books to us; it was agreed that these should be managed by the County Bridge Association, and they are stored by Martin Gill.  The full list of some 125 titles (both educational and humorous) can be found here, along with Martin Gill's contact details.

https://www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwol/bw.cgi?club=worcestershire&pid=display_page65

We have a small "taster" selection at Claines for people to see, and books can also be booked out from there, using the notebook to record borrowing and return.

Get reading!!

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We play:

at Claines Royal British Legion, Cornmeadow Lane, WR3 7PL, every Wednesday

Start time 7.00 for 7.10pm.   

and at Hallow Parish Hall, Hallow Worcester, WR2 6PE, every Tuesday

Start time 12-50pm for 1pm.

Please pre-book, with Maureen for Wed sessions, and with Roland for Tuesday sessions

Currently, we do not have a host, but we can often pair up singles in advance.