ARCHIVE 2006 NEWS

PUBLICITY OFFICER GOES SOUTH

During our recent holiday to visit family in Australia we took the opportunity to find croquet clubs in New South Wales. We found several clubs in the area and decided to visit Bundanoon C.C. The club is based at the sports complex in Bundanoon adjacent to the bowling club. Club day is Wednesday mornings and so we contacted Ian McClelland ,club secretary to arrange a visit and to play at the club. On arrival we found the members all attired in their club colours which are royal blue shirts and white trousers. The club has two full sized lawns adjacent to their pavilion. On club days the players meet at 10 a.m. and draw lots to see who plays whom. The players have handicaps but in New South Wales the highest handicap that can be used is 20. There is no league but clubs arrange matches against other clubs in the Southern Highlands. Country Croquet - NSW, Australia Clubs also have Croquet Carnivals which is the equivalent of our Tournaments. Golf Croquet is not normally played at Bundanoon so Cath played a short lawn game with Jackie Crossley against me. Cath enjoyed the game and is encouraged to play more Association croquet .We picked a very good day to visit as it was the 103rd birthday of John Hope who had played croquet until he was 99 years young. We were introduced to John and then his birthday was toasted with champagne and we all had birthday cake. On our second visit Cath and I were drawn against Keith and Jackie and played our matches. The games were scheduled for 2 hours and at the end of the matches we all sat down and had a ‘sausage sizzle’. The club captain Dick Topham presented us with club badges and Alan got his Association Handicap card for his first win in Australia. The web sites for the Croquet New South Wales and Country Croquet New South Wales is managed by David Archer.Croquet NSW, Australia I gave him our club website details and when we visited him at his home he took great pleasure in logging on. We also had the opportunity to Play Golf Croquet at the Southern Highlands club based in the village of Exeter. The had two good lawns next the cricket ground and were fenced off as we were at Hope Street. We were made very welcome at both clubs and as we have e mail links with the Bundanoon club we shall keep them informed of our activities at Fylde and look forward to playing at Bundanoon in the future.

Posted by Alan and Cath 10th November 2006

Lawn Update

A great turn out from the membership for scarifying day.

Although the conditions were wet, we achieved everything we set out to do. The machine was well behaved except for a strange period of about ninty minutes where it kept stopping and throwing the chain off.

Terry and Peter eventually prevailed.

An added bonus was the water supply to the leaking tap next to lawn one was cut off.

29th October 2006

Leonard wins all england NW area final

Held at Pendle & Craven the area final selected three players to go forward to Nailsea in two weeks time. Leonard won the tournament with a perfect score of five games and will represent the club for the second year running.

Peter who managed the tournament presents Leonard with the winners trophy

3rd September 2006

photographic awards

There are some interesting photographs relating to Croquet here.

You may see someone you recognise!

30th August 2006

ILLUMINATIONS AT FYLDE

A donation to the club has supplied electricity to the clubhouse. The supply comes from inside the indoor tennis courts and is fully certified by the installing electrician. Put kettle on mother!

23rd August 2006

ALAN WINS 2 NIGHTS AT RIPON SPA HOTEL

Alan won the progressive doubles Golf competition beating Stephen Hugill from Bishop Auckland 8-2 in the final picking up the prize of 2 nights B&B at the Hotel.

24th - 26th July 2006

CA SILVER AWARD

Andrew gained a CA Silver Award at Pendle today

See the CA Merit Awards

21st July 2006

Canterbury pilgrims

In Julye man hie to Canterbury y Crokey to plaie.

The Hooper's Tale

Posted by Sir Leo Le Fylde, 16th July 2006

TREE - MENDOUS

What an improvement! We also now have some rustic seating on the South boundary.

The new fence feature marks our North boundary very well too.

28th June 2006

TREES FOR THE CHOP

The Leylandii trees by short lawn 4 are to be felled to remove the danger of any falling [again] on the lawns. It is expected that this will improve the drainage and condition of short lawn 4.

The smaller trees behind the Leylandii [hardly visible in the photograph] do not belong to SSLTC and will remain.

22nd June 2006

INTERNAL TOURNAMENTS START TODAY

The draw for the Handicap KO is:

PW v LH : BB v AM : TV v AW : LW v LA.

Other tournaments are all play all. See the notice boards for more information.

16th June 2006

BOWDON FIRST TO VISIT NEW FYLDE LAWNS

Our Short Lawn team hosted the club's first home match this weekend.

11th June 2006

LEE WINS SOUTHPORT

The Southport and Birkdale Croquet Club Jubilee Handicap tankard was played for over the bank holiday weekend. A Herculean effort from the ground staff on Friday night and Saturday morning to remove the surface water meant that the 20 competitors began more or less on time. After two days Lee was leading with 6/6 but halfway through the morning the lawns flooded and the overnight positions became the final result.

30th May 2006

MATCH CAPTAIN ON BBC RADIO

An interview with Liz promoting our open day and six week course was broadcast this morning. This was be the second time the club has featured on Radio Lancashire. The previous broadcast was a big success and generated a lot of interest in the club.

Listen To Liz

Listen To Hope Street Broadcast From 2003

Listen To Radio Lancashire Live

27th May 2006

OPEN DAY SUNDAY 28th MAY 11am to 4pm

Free!

Try your hand at Croquet in an informal setting where the emphasis is on having fun.

26th May 2006

IT 'S CANTERBURY AWAY

Our first opponents in the prestigious Secretary's Shield will be Canterbury. Fylde lost the toss.

The match must be played before 16th July.

See The Draw

See Match Results

20th May 2006

NEW LAWNS OPEN

Croquet was played for the first time at South Shore Tennis club today.

Everyone present insisted Liz should strike the first ball on our new lawns.

Photo Gallery

30th April2006

TEST YOURSELF

The CA has produced a series of questions on the laws of the game.

Test Yourself Here

The questions are asked in a random order and remembered until you log out.In the world of Croquet Law questions the players (or sides) are often referred to as Ray (Red & Yellow) and Bab (Black & Blue). Doing this quiz will strengthen your knowledge of the Laws. There are no trick questions but to get the most out of the challenge please read the questions carefully!

27th April 2006

OPENING DAY POSTPONED ONE WEEK

The equipment container has been put in place and keys cut. Carpet has been obtained for the pavillion. The rubbish has been removed. Wood for ball-stops has been saved.

However one more week is required for the membership to be at full strength so the decision has been made to postpone the opening until the 30th April.

23rd April 2006

CROQUET ASSOCIATION SECRETARY'S SHIELD

The draw for the Secretary's shield has given Fylde a bye into the quarter finals where we will meet either Canterbury or Tyneside away.

See The Draw

See Match Results

The teams in this tournament all won their respective Federation's handicap league last season.

7th April 2006

SATELLITE IMAGES

The new lawns can be seen from space if your browser permits.

Click Here

Then on the new page experiment with the zoom bar

23rd March 2006

AFTER !

Still some clearing up to do

23rd March 2006

BEFORE !

Our 12x10 summer house will be installed on the site of the old concrete shed to the Noth East of the lawns at 14:00 on Thursday 23rd March. This will be supervised by Martin. All members are welcome to attend.

SSLTC Have assured us the site will be cleared and ready by that date.

18th March 2006

LAWN REPORT

Although they are actually still too wet to play on, the lawns are becoming defined by cutting and are beginning to look almost playable ! Turfing has been done in some of the areas around the edges which were devoid of grass but some areas remain to be done. It is not yet clear if these areas will actually be in play.

18th March 2006

LAWNS OPENING DATE

The official opening date has been set for 23rd April.

12th March 2006

REPORT FROM AGM

Download AGM Minutes

The password is the club's padlock combination.

9th March 2006

ACCESSORISE

Buy Some Now

2nd March 2006

GOOGLE 'FYLDE CROQUET'

Here is a selection of links found from Google:

A Match Report

One-time Member

Some Mis-information From The Council (3rd para.)

19th February 2006

LAWN REPORT

All the concrete net supports which interfered with the hoop setting have been removed.

The drainage problems have been identified but are difficult to resolve immediately. However we are assured the area will dry during spring and be playable during the season.

Detailed work is being done on planning the new pavilion. The results will be discussed by the committee and presented to the AGM

19th February 2006

AVAILABILITY SHEETS

An availability sheet in Word format is available for downloading:

Download Now

There are four sections: Handicap, Short, Golf & Jamboree.

Please return the sheets to the Match Captain.

24th January 2006

AWARDS FOR ALL

The club is grateful to have received a substantial grant towards the cost of the new pavillion.

Awards For All

23rd January 2006

LAWN REPORT

Work continues. The concrete has been partially removed from the playing area. Drainage problems are being addressed.

22nd January 2006

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21st January 2006

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