![]() In about 1985 the club moved to the bowling club clubhouse in Lillington. Margaret Lawson learnt her bridge here in the 1980s. The club then moved to the Community Centre in Lillington and Gerry’s son Jack started a teaching session. This club was started in the 1960s by Gerry Dunne and his bridge partner Bob Harvey in the managers’ canteen at Lockheed. ![]() The club was still active up to 2019, but with a declining number of tables. When it was no longer possible to play at the tennis club, Mary Curtis did valliant work finding other locations including a retirement home in Lillington, the Oddfellows Hall, the Naval Club near Adelaide Bridge and Holy Trinity Church Hall on Friday afternoons. Nick Hoten remembers the wall decorations – several very ordinary tea towels pinned on to the walls round the room by exceptionally wealthy and well-dressed ladies. George MacPhearson was a very good player who played on Saturday afternoons. Bridge sessions were on Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoons. Peter continued playing bridge in Leamington when he was over 100 years old. Molly Evans who drove in from Clifford Chambers was secretary for many years, Margaret Phillips, Philip Perriam, Harry Spooner and his partner at the time Peter Castelow. Frances Piff, whose son Charles Kay was an actor on the BBC (King John) and in films (Nijinsky). Trevor died at the table while playing bridge. Other players during the 1970s were Cynthia and Trevor Pringle Scott and daughter Angela Starkey. At one time she was taking five classes a week at all levels. Rosemary Randerson took over teaching later on, and many of today’s players in Leamington thank Rosemary for teaching them bridge. John put the Leamington club on the map when he won the regional Cutty Sark tournament in 1975.īala Maniam who joined the club in the 1970s taught many players through the Warwickshire Adult Learning evening classes. Other members at that time were Olive Staite, Margaret Truswell, Peggy Bennett who played for England and always said ‘content’ at the end of the auction, Sheila Ballantyne, Eddy Wilkinson, Brenda Davison, Jean Waring, Helene Perkins and Olive Hawthorn. After four years they had climbed to division 3. In 1966 when Kevin New became a member, John formed a team with his partner Gwen Boardman Kevin New and Martin Bevan Alan (a bit temperamental) and Beryl Gold and they joined the Coventry Bridge League in division 6. With the help of four Warwickshire players, John introduced duplicate bridge which was much more competitive. At that time it was rubber bridge played for 1 penny/ hundred in the wooden chalet style club house. He liked what he saw and took up the game. Being interested in all activities at the club, he looked over a few shoulders at the bridge table to see what it was all about. ![]() In 1954 John O’Farrell joined the tennis club, and in the mid-sixties became secretary. It was started so the outdoor sports players could meet during the winter. Bridge was being played at the Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Guy’s Cliff Avenue in the 1950s. ![]()
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