Watford Bridge Club's history

The club was originally run as a private owned venture in Bushey High Street prior to 1962 and the Bushey and Watford Bridge Club was formed in early 1963. The early days were difficult financially with cut-in rubber sessions and partnership rubber sessions meeting in a room in the Conservative offices in Watford, in a café in Bushey High Street, in a private house (now an hotel) in Westland Road and in a restaurant in the Odeon cinema.

It was the move to the Darby and Joan Club that prompted the start of duplicate bridge and the Club's affiliation to Hertfordshire. After several moves later we play duplicate (April 1997) and rubber (2004) in the Beechen Grove Baptist Church hall .

We think that only Alastair Allan remains and plays actively in the Club as a "founding" member all those years ago. The Club was renamed Watford Bridge Club in 1985.

Committee Members

The committee members are elected by the members of Watford Bridge Club at the AGM. All members of the committee will be more than willing to you help out.

 Watford Bridge Club

Constitution

Club competitions

The club competitions are only open to fully paid up members of Watford Bridge Club of the current season. Existing members have until the end of June to renew their subscriptions to be eligible for the club's competitions, else they are disqualified from the competition. In the event of any non-members winning an event as an individual, as part of a pair or member of a team, that individual, both partners of the pair or the whole teams result will be voided and the next individual, pair or team which consists entirely of members of the club will be awarded the championship.

Watford & Bushey  Bridge Club Pairs (Club Pairs)

The Club Pairs has 4 sessions with only the best 3 scores counting in the final total. To qualify for the event, pairs must have played in at least 3 rounds. The top two pairs represent Watford BC in the HBA Champions Cup (subject to the HBA rules and approval of Watford BC's Tournament secretary). Roll of honour

Bushey & Watford Bridge Club Individual Cup (Individual Cup)

The Watford BC's Club Individual competition has 5 sessions with only the best 4 scores counting in the final total. To qualify for the event, a player must have played in at least 4 rounds with a different player. Roll of honour

WBC Mixed Pairs Cup (Mixed Pairs)

The Watford BC's Mixed Pairs competition has 1 session only. Roll of honour

Ladies Pairs

The Watford Ladies pairs has three sessions with the top two results counting to the final score. To qualify for the event, the pair must have played in at least 2 rounds. Roll of honour

Peter Emery Trophy (Men's Pairs)

The Watford Means pairs has three sessions with the top two results counting to the final score. To qualify for the event, the pair must have played in at least 2 rounds. Roll of honour

Watford & Bushy BC - The Bindloss Cup (Teams competition)

This event has a qualification round with the top 4 teams going through to the semi-finals. The team coming 1st will play the 4th placed team, and the team placed 2nd will play the 3rd placed team. The winning teams of the two semi-final will play head to head in the final. No team can have more than 6 players throughout the competition. Roll of honour

Grant Seventies Trophy

Non-members are shown on the list but the cup can only be won by members of the club. This cup is won by the pair who has scored the highest percentage during the year that is 70% or over in a duplicate event that has at least 10 pairs in the event. The event is run from 1st January to 31st of December each year. Roll of honour