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The funeral of Ken Jones will be held at Hutcliffe Wood Crematorium on Wednesday, 7th August at 10:30am and afterwards at Abbeydale Golf Club.
If you will be attending please let me know ([email protected]) by31st July to help with catering arrangements.
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Friday, 26 July 2024 by Simon Woolham
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We are sad to report the passing of Ken Jones. Ken had been diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of cancer and died on 16th July. He had been a member of the club for more than 35 years and played in many of the club sessions.
Funeral details will follow when known.
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Wednesday, 24 July 2024 by Simon Woolham
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Sheffield A has won the Summer season of the Online Yorkshire League for Teams of 4.
The team were 18 VPs ahead of second place and comprised Arthur Hughes and Richard Pike with Dave Robinson and Tony Sowter, and David Fletcher with Graham Jepson. Well done, all.
The table can be seen athttps://www.ebu.co.uk/results/leagues/YOR-000022-01
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Wednesday, 10 July 2024 by Barrie Partridge
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Longer-standing club members will remember Martin Cantor, who played at & for Sheffield Bridge Club for many years before retiring and moving to Germany.
Since the 2020 lockdown there has been a regular, weekly friendly game* on BBO between Sheffield Bridge club and Bielefeld, which Martin has been instrumental in running and maintaining.
As some of you will also know, Martin was diagnosed with brain cancer last year. He has undergone a gruelling series of treatments. After some setbacks, he...
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Wednesday, 19 June 2024 by Bazil Caygill
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Dave Robinson and Tony Sowter and team mates have won the trial to represent England in the World Bridge Games in Buenos Aires in October. With David Kendrick and Malcolm Prior, they beat the tem of Paul Hackett, Brian Senior, John Holland, Alan Mould, Gunnar Hallberg and David Mossop by 25 IMPs in a 112 board match over 2 days at West Midlands BC.
Congratulations and good luck!
Photo at
https://www.ebu.co.uk/article/senior-teams-trial-results
(Tony on left, Dave on right.)
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Tuesday, 11 June 2024 by
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Dave Robinson and Tony Sowter were part of the Yorkshire A Team that has won the A Final of this event. These League Finals were the invention some years ago of Graham Jepson when he was on the EBU Board. Second in the B Final was the Yorkshire B team including Rod Hose and David Adams. This year the event was played online.
Results are athttps://www.bridgewebs.com/niclf/
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Tuesday, 04 June 2024 by Barrie Partridge
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Two trophies were awarded at the Spring Bank Holiday Stratified Multiple Teams.
The leading Non-Expert Team of Russ and Liz Harrison, Caroline Cousins and Richard Field won the Musson Trophy, while the overall winners for the Campfield Trophy were Martin White, Pete Waterman, Graham Jepson and David Fletcher with a score of +73 IMPs.
Well done, all.
(To qualify a team to be non-expert, their average National Grade needed to be below 48%, which is roughly the national average.)
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Tuesday, 28 May 2024 by Barrie Partridge
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Sheffield, representing Yorkshire, has today finished 4th out of 8 teams in the National Final for the Garden Cities Trophy, having last month won the Northern Regional Final.
Our team on both days was was
Sandy Davies and Richard Pike
Bazil Caygill and Matthew Kiggins
Dave Robinson and Tony Sowter
Mike Pomfrey and Arthur Hughes.
Sheffield represented Yorkshire by virtue of our A Team winning the Yorkshire League, which it did by a long way!
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Saturday, 11 May 2024 by Barrie Partridge
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The team of Tom Gisborne, Sandy Davies, Mike Pomfrey, David Banks, Dave Robinson and Tony Sowter has won the Waddington Shield, the premier Yorkshire KO Teams competition and will represent Yorkshire in the Pachabo Inter-Counties event. Well done!
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Friday, 10 May 2024 by Barrie Partridge
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The funeral will be held on Thursday the 30th May at 10.00am at Grenoside Crematorium North, 5 Skew Hill, Sheffield. There will then be a wake for anyone who wishes to share drinks and food, held at the Rose and Crown (Minnie’s) pub in Stannington immediately after (approx 11.30-1.30ish).
For catering purposes please advise Ann Wall [email protected] if you will be attending the wake.
The funeral will also be streamed online at the following link:
https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapplicant.obitus.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cb.t.wall%40exeter.ac.uk%7C7ae468f43c3940d9ac8208dc6f776144%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C638507806626027267%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=jjx6B8fUfTRPNT1jvvzlX%2F2EuZi8hxjq9leo1pEXERY%3D&reserved=0
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Thursday, 09 May 2024 by Simon Woolham
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We are sad to report the passing of Toby Wall on Sunday 5thMay.
Toby was a very popular member of the club for more than twenty years, playing regularly in many different club sessions and with many different partners. He also took part in the Waddington and Yorkshire League teams. A staunch supporter of the club, he had been a trustee for very many years and also had a short spell on the committee as house manager before he had to step down due to ill health.
Funeral details will follow when known.
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Tuesday, 07 May 2024 by Barrie Partridge
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We have sadly learned of the death of recent member Graham Lyon. Graham was captain of one of the Sheffield teams in the Yorkshire League for many years. Graham was also very much involved with the organisation of the annual Sheffield Charity Swiss Teams.
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Tuesday, 07 May 2024 by Barrie Partridge
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Congratulations to Julie and Ian Grant on winning the Flo Dornan Swiss Pairs on the May Day Bank Holiday, just 1 VP ahead of Bill Barraclough and David Duckworth in second place. 28 pairs entered and the full results are on this web site. It was a day when many of our less experienced members triumphed over our more experienced members. Handicap prizes go to the three pairs that out-performed the most compared to their National Grades. The figures below the % scores by which they out-performed NGS...
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Tuesday, 07 May 2024 by Barrie Partridge
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Sandy Davies and Tom Gisborne have taken three titles at the recent Scottish Bridge Union Overseas Congress in Turkey. They won the Swiss Teams an Mixed Pairs and came second in the Swiss Pairs. Well done!
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Saturday, 04 May 2024 by Barrie Partridge
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Sue Curtis, Kate Lumb, Bazil Caygill and Matthew Kiggins have won the Vice-Chairman'Teams Trophy this week, with an impressive +60 IMPs. Congratulations to them. Second with +39 IMPs were Rosemary and Simon Woolham, Martyn James and Bruno Brugger
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Saturday, 27 April 2024 by Barrie Partridge
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Pete Waterman and Martin White finished just 1 VP ahead of Sandy Davies and Bazil Caygill, taking the Gold and Silver trophies respectively in the Easter Swiss Pairs. Congratulations to them, and also the winners of the Bronze trophy, Martin Pierce and Jonathan Brayshaw. The Bronze is nowadays awarded on a handicap basis using the NGS. Martin and Jonathan achieved a MP score 9.5% above their par. Vari Ainsworth and Liz Fisher were close behind.
Elsewhere over Easter, Richard Pike won the Swiss...
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Tuesday, 02 April 2024 by Barrie Partridge