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Langstone Ciff Hotel
Langstone Ciff Hotel

One of the newly
One of the newly
Refurbish Bedrooms
Refurbish Bedrooms

For a Short Mat Holiday or Short Mat Tour an Outdoor
For a Short Mat Holiday or Short Mat Tour an Outdoor
Club Tour, or just a holiday by the sea.
Club Tour, or just a holiday by the sea.
The Langstone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish Warren, Devon.
The Langstone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish Warren, Devon.
www.langstone-hotel.co.uk Tel: 01626 868000
www.langstone-hotel.co.uk Tel: 01626 868000
Remembering

This last printed magazine is dedicated to friends I can no longer talk
to. The Covid-19 death of a friend and fellow Crown Green Bowler
started me thinking about a dedication before I too exit the waiting
room.
We go through many junctions and crossroads in life but we
rarely see them until we have passed them and do not know what
our lives could have been had we taken a different road. There is a
serious apology I need to make that is almost 60 years old but I do
not think I will ever get the chance to make it.
We meet a lot of people in our lives through work, sport or what-
ever, some just eventually pass us bye or we pass them but others
become friends for a period and then they or I moved on. Whilst I can’t remember everyone,
the following is a list of those who I was very sad indeed to lose.
Chris Robbins, a workmate with whom I spent many Friday afternoons after work playing
darts an imbibing the odd pint. Gwen Curtis a former Secretary of the ESMBA and her partner
Jim (Shane) Nisbet, they at last found happiness together before they passed. Roy Stokes. a
good an honest friend who was also my assistant England Manager. John Scott, a friend who
helped distribute the magazine and helped on my holidays. Keith Earp, who told it as it was
also helped and was a former Umpires Director and of late, A crown Green and Boozing com-
panion Jack Edwards, who succumbed to Covid-19. There are many more who have come and
gone from the England team and guests on my holidays etc etc. and I have no doubt missed
many names but I at least they are in my memory!
I would also remember those who help make the English Association exist, Margaret and
Norman Dickenson, Harry Lockett former Secretary and Geoff Buchanan former Competition
Secretary ang his wife Gaynor, one of the two best ladies ever to have graced the England team,
plus Reg Kett who basically put our rules together. Where I ask has the last 36 years gone?
And the 34 before that!