What’s the point of this site? It holds whatever data is still available on three once-flourishing but now deceased Essex bridge clubs. These three clubs had joined with Mayflower DBC between 2012-2013 – seeing the writing on the wall – to merge the four Clubs to make the combined club more resilient against future shocks. Sadly this project failed, as did a later attempt to merge Mountnessing with Mayflower, which is the last Club standing – just.

The point is that F2F bridge is dying, particularly following the Covid 19 pandemic, while – at least in the UK – the aging demographic means that the future looks bleak. Yes, there are some clubs still flourishing – especially those meeting during the day – but this in itself shuts the door on young people playing the game (they do, after all, need to go to work). Even in these clubs the ‘movers and shakers’ are mostly those who learned their bridge in the glory days of the 1960s and 70s.

The ECBA site has decided to be forward looking and has deleted (or suppressed) much of the history of bridge in Essex – in the form of who won the various competitions. There is nowhere to see who played in the past before the move to Bridgewebs in 2018.

This site seeks to redress this deficiency in some small way, not that it can go back before 2006. At present the data – particularly recent data – is rather ‘thin’. If richer data becomes available – and it is hereby solicited – it will be recorded on this site and its sub-sites.

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