Sports Officer Darren has arranged an afternoon at Scarborough Rugby Club, to include the match v. Moortown and a two course lunch. Drinks will be available. The cost will be £23. Please contact Darren if you wish to attend.
Rugby Match – Saturday 16 December
18 August 2023 by
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Quoits Capers
8 June 2023 by
On a glorious summer’s evening (irony? Editor) 10 members from 41 Club, Farts and Round Table with 1 guest attended the annual 41 Club quoits competition on Wednesday 7 June at Beck Hole organised by our Club’s Sports Officer Darren. A member of the Beck Hole Quoits Club, Ivor, agreed to play making 6 teams of 2 players.
The only audience was a small flock of sheep who soon left for pastures new after witnessing the dire level of the quoit throwing which was so bad the Quoits Club members had to quickly cover the wood surrounding the clay pits with matting to avoid too much damage from the “woodpeckers” and “crabs” (quoits terms for the uninitiated) which were numerous.
After a delayed start to enable the players to seek refreshment from the Birch Hall Inn 4 of the scheduled 5 rounds of matches were completed before the midges became too much.
With the last round of matches abandoned by mutual consent everyone retired to the Birch Hall Inn for further refreshment (beer and pies) where Darren announced David A partnered by the ringer (another quoits term) Ivor to be the winners and who were both presented with a bottle of wine and a suitably engraved and beribboned gold coloured medallion reminiscent as someone pointed out to the ones which used to be handed out by a late and sometime Scarborough resident on a Saturday evening’s children’s TV programme. This may explain why the medallions were so cheap for Darren to buy!
Out of respect to the feelings of the other players the final places of the losing teams were not made public.
A good night’s entertainment enjoyed by all the participants save for the sheep.
Despite the presence of a large notice and recent history several players (name names) availed themselves of the neighbouring woodland to relieve themselves prompting a warning from the Quoits Club members that if they received a complaint from any of the neighbouring properties there would be no invitation to play next year. We have been warned!
41 Club Quoits Correspondent
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Archery Report
5 June 2023 by
A merry band of eight gathered in wet conditions for the archery. We were unclucky with the weather. It had been raining earlier and so everywhere was a little damp. The weather picked up just as we started with expert tuition and practice session.
The competition divided into range targets and field targets . Half the group did targets and the other half the range, then to swapped over. Scores were been kept by the archery captain John Naylor.
For the first half of the competition we had glorious sunshine . We all took a break and had drinks and snacks laid on by the archery team. Then resumed the competition but sadly halfway through the second half the heavens opened and everything was rained off.
John decided to do an average score inorder to determine a winner. With only 4 points between the top 3 the results were
Winner. Darren
Second . malcolm
Third. Gordon
Afterwords we headed to the Poacher’s Barn for a pint and pub meal. The chef had stayed back for us.
Overall a good night was had by everybody .
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May Meeting – Bikes, Boots, Calamari and Fog
15 May 2023 by
Twas a foggy night in Scarborough for Chairman Charlie Tipple first meeting. It was as usual the last club meeting before the summer break, we met at the Bike and Boot in the town centre near the Spa Bridge.
We were suitably accommodated in a separate room and following table grace we were served up a Tapas Style meal including a wide variety of food choices with an emphasis on fish including mussels and calamari.
There was a good turn-out but disappointingly a few empty chairs as ever.
Guests John Price and Andrew Hayes joined us for the evening.
We ended the evening with the toast to RTBI and were invited to re-group in September for the start of the autumn programme.
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Sports Event – Archery 16 May
12 May 2023 by
Archery competition commencing at 6.30pm on Tuesday 16 May at Scarborough Archers. Osgodby lane. YO11 3SB. Coaching by Scarborough Archers on their practice range and in the woods nearby followed by a competition. Cost £20 each for the archery. Please let Darren Kellett know if you are attending.
Afterwards there will be a meal/drink at the Poachers Barn, Osgodby Lane. YO11 3QH
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Sports Event – Quoits 7 June
4 May 2023 by
The annual quoits competition will be held on Wednesday 7 June, 6.30pm at Beck Hole YO22 5LE.
John Morley and the quoits team are hosting the annual quoits competition which is open to all 41 club , round table and farts members £10 each going to their nominated charity air ambulance . Please let Darren Kellett know if you are attending.
Glenys the landlady at the nearby Birch Hall Inn has agreed to open for us if we fancy a post game snack and drink.
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May Meeting – Bike & Boot
22 April 2023 by
The May meeting, the first for Chairman Charlies will be held on Thursday 11 May at the Bike and Boot in Scarborough. Watch this space for more details.
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April Meeting – AGM
18 April 2023 by
Yes, yet another year passes, and Chairman Peter was able to relieve himself (it’s an age thing!) of the office chain.
Duly smartened up (following a stern directive in the Newsletter about decorum, tradition, slipping standards, blah, blah,blah etc), some 21 members, and 1 due to be enrolled member turned up at the very accommodating Crescent Hotel for the AGM. Numbers unfortunately had been hit by a flurry of late apologies from members who had attended the Scalby Easter Walk and subsequently succumbed to COVID, but as John White had already pre ordered the free wine ( a very nice Fleurie and Pinot Grigio), the members who did attended decided the only honourable thing to do was to make sure none was left.
Secretary Mike took control of proceedings and following some very brief reports from the Secretary, the Treasurer, the catering officer and the membership officer, Darren, our sports officer was left with 35 minutes to fill! New officers were elected, as per the agenda. Peter, our outgoing Chairman, had the pleasure of enrolling Ben Kitto, a former 88 Tabler, and gave out some fancy French rose (with an acute accent over the e but I can’t find out how to do that without translating the whole page!) to all last year’s committee members.
He then gave a succinct report on how, and where, his year had gone. Peter then passed over the Chain of Office to Charlie Hindle, who then proceeded to tell us how his year would go (he hopes).
A good 3 course meal, supplemented by the plentious wine, enabled the rest of the evening to slip quietly into oblivion.
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Why are Aalten Round Table Visiting Scarborough?
20 March 2023 by
A reminder of the background to the connection between Aalten Round Table/41 Clubs and their counterparts in Scarborough.
The first visit to Holland in 1963 was marked by a particular kindness that has remained one of the key features of all such visits since. All seven Scarborough Tablers were able to stay in the homes of Aalten Tablers. The Scarborough contingent still benefited from the impressive linguistic skills of the Dutch and their impressive fluency in English, conversely matched by the poor efforts in Dutch by various Scarborough speakers!
The original English party of ‘1963 spent a week in Holland and built up such a friendship that, before long a return visit by the Dutch to Scarborough was planned. So it was that, in May 1964, four Dutch Tablers from Aalten 88, with their wives, made the crossing to Scarborough.
The fellowship and friendship engendered from those early visits was so warm and mutual that they continue to this day. The two Clubs meet every two and a half years, alternating location. Now visits last over a long weekend, and Round Tablers past and present, with their partners, enjoy a weekend of events to help them to get to know their hosts’ area better and to meet socially. On the Saturday evening there is a formal dinner and dance, although formality soon wavers as liquid hospitality is shared and enjoyed. ln another tradition of the Saturday evening, members of each club ln turn perform a light-hearted (and often badly-rehearsed) sketch or song. Most importantly, the tradition of staying in each othe/s homes has endured since 1963, cemented by many long-lasting friendships, which continue beyond the regular twinning visits.
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