| Dinner & Presentation Evening 2009 |
posted: 7 Nov 2009 |
On Friday 6 November 29 club members and their guests enjoyed a wonderful evening at the Plough and Horses pub at Jarvis Brook.
The dinner and service were first class and the general chat throughout the evening were clear indications of its success. The trophies for the internal club competitions were awarded to the winners and the runners up.
Our thanks go to David Martin for organising such a good event.
The evening was such a success that plans have already been made to hold next years dinner at the same venue on Friday 12 November.
Mike Evans
NBC Chairman |
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| Quiz Night at Nutley |
posted: 12 Oct 2009 |
On Saturday 10 October we held yet another very successful general knowledge quiz evening, our fifth, at the Nutley Memorial Hall to raise funds for the club. We had a record breaking number of teams, 19 in all, with teams from other bowling clubs Rotherfield, Southgate Park, Felbridge and the Short Mat Bowls club at Crowborough, members' teams and other teams from the surrounding villages.
Judging by the amount of drink and nibbles on all the tables it was clear that teams were to enjoy the evening from the outset. Plenty of sandwiches were provided in the interval and we were well supported with the raffle.
From comments made at the end of the evening it was clear that it had been enjoyable evening with compliments from many of the exiting teams. The winners were the team from Felbridge Bowls Club . Well done.
Apart from wishing to create an enjoyable evening, the object was to raise funds for the bowls club and thanks to the support and generosity of everyone that was certainly achieved.
Thank you to all those who came along. We will do it again next year.
Mike Evans
NBC Chairman and Quizmaster |
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| Sussex Vice-Presidents Visits Nutley |
posted: 17 Sep 2009 |
Tuesday 8th September 2009 saw the début match between Nutley Bowling Club and Sussex Vice-Presidents.
I would like to thank everybody for their support and feel that we equipped ourselves to our usual high standards with a good green, good games, good food and good company. Even the weather was fantastic but we can't claim responsibility for that.
Mike Evans
Chairman |
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| Barbecue 2009 |
posted: 27 Jul 2009 |
After a social event at Nutley Bowling Club I look forward to receiving a report of that event to be published on our website. Our recent BBQ resulted in fine submission by Russ Gaylard whose keyboard must have run red hot.
You can read about
- The setting and ambience;
- The food;
- The reading of a tribute by Patricia Sidwell
- A surprise birthday celebration
Download the full report
Maurice Robinson
NBC Member |
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| Alf Sayers Memorial Trophy 2009 |
posted: 16 Jul 2009 |
On the morning of Sunday 12th July 2009 the clouds began to break up as the 16 teams began to arrive for our annual Alf Sayers Memorial Trophy competition after the miserable weather on Saturday and overnight. As I welcomed the players at 10am I said that never before had I checked the weather forecast so many times over the previous days but now we all hoped for even more of an improvement.It did just that and we all enjoyed a lovely sunny day helped along by slick organisation, good games, great food (and so many of the teams said they only came for the food) and a nail-biting final.
The 3 ends final was between Uckfield and Crawley. It was all tied after the first 2 ends and in the 3rd end Uckfield looked certain to win with one wood to come from the Crawley skip. Somehow he squeezed his last wood through and victory was theirs. Magic!!!.
The club was complimented by many for a wonderful day. I hope it was not the Pimms that was doing the talking! We were only thankful for the change in the weather.
Mike Evans
NBC Chairman |
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| Ringmer Triples 2009 - Nutley Retains the Trophy |
posted: 13 Jul 2009 |
The persistent rain on Saturday 11th July 2009 and the weather forecast for the following Sunday did not bode well so it was a nice to wake up to a sunny morning in time for this year's Ringmer Triples Tournament, as well as Nutley's Alf Sayers Day.
John Robinson, Tony Syzlka and myself attended Ringmer Bowls Club for their annual event in sunshine and so it remained all day. The format remained as previous years with twenty clubs taking part, four of whom we had to play games of seven ends.
Our first match was against Preston Ladies who in 2007 had easily beaten us. This year the table was turned and we were won 14-4, having won 5 of the ends. Our next opponents were Rotherfield 14-1 with 6 winning ends, then Portslade 13-7 with 4 winning ends and finally Adastra 7-4 with 5 winning ends.
The result was as last year with Carlton as runners up and Nutley retaining the trophy.
With the usual high standard of lunch, convivial company and excellent weather a great time was had by all.
Maurice Robinson
NBC Member. |
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| Nutley Fete 2009 |
posted: 29 Jun 2009 |
A very hot, sunny day drew the usual large crowds at this annual event on Saturday 28th June. Our stand this year was a combined boot fair and children's tombolo . Manned by Mike Evans, Tony Smith, David Martin with occasional hindrance from myself, a sum well in excess of £100 was raised. A very worthwhile effort and a good chance to raise the club's profile in the village.
Marlene Robinson
NBC Member |
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| Gladys Rowland 2009 - Round 3 The End |
posted: 17 Jun 2009 |
Monday 15th June
This was to be our final match of our Gladys Rowland campaign for 2009. It was fair to say that we all had a fairly average game and our opponents, Isle of Thorns, played very well. We battled away for about two thirds of the game but Isle of Thorns pulled away and won convincingly in the end. We wish them well in the next round and hope to better ourselves next year.
Marlene Robinson
NBC Member |
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| Gladys Rowland 2009 - Round 2 |
posted: 10 Jun 2009 |
Our second round match was against Maltravers who travelled up from Littlehampton. This was a more keenly contested game but Nutley were in the lead throughout. By the 18th end we were two shots ahead and fortunately managed to get 5 shots and 2 shots on the next two ends and the score finished on 25-16. Once again a good all round team effort. In the next round we are at home to Isle of Thorns on Monday 15th June.
Marlene Robinson
NBC Member |
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| Will Atterton Trophy Mens Evening Triples Competition 2009 |
posted: 28 May 2009 |
On Wednesday 27th May 2009 The Atterton Trophy Men's Triples Competition was due to be started at 6pm hosted by Felbridge Bowling Club. Nutley had entered a team comprising of Tony Szylka, John Robinson and myself.
Earlier in the day doubts crept in as the rain fell and it continued to do so for most of the day. This was reinforced when the game at Nutley had been cancelled at about 3pm. By 5pm the the rain had stopped and the team travelled to Felbridge B.C.
The competition was made up of 12 teams each playing 3 games of 6 ends each. Scores would be cumulative.
John played lead, myself played two and Tony was skip. As the following results show we all played our part but I believe that the man of the match was Tony who saved a number of ends by fine accurate bowling.
Our opponents were East Grinstead B.C.(5 -1), West Hoathly B.C.(7 – 2) and Handcross B.C.(10 – 0). This resulted in the cumulative score of 25 – 3.
The competition was followed by a choice of salad suppers and sweets and further followed by the announcement that Nutley had won the Trophy. Hooray.
A great evening was has by all, especially we three from Nutley.
Maurice Robinson
NBC Member |
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