Vice Chairman

I was a lucky Cockney, getting into a grammar school just before they disbanded. Graduated from the chess club to the less organised bridge crowd, encouraged by enthusiastic teachers who took our pocket money in their homes, playing for a few pennies a hundred. Wouldn’t happen these days! 

I learned bridge in my late teens from my parents who were both club and county players. I played for a few years in Staffordshire but then marriage, children and career became more important and I didn’t then play for about twenty years other than staff room games at break and lunch times.