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SIMON SAYS – The Chairman’s Newsletter October 2026
Greetings Gentlemen and thank you for your various good wishes and enquiries about my health. A week ago, I was lying in a hospital bed awaiting my angioplasty (medical speak for ‘Dyno-Rod’ operation) to clear a blocked coronary artery. No one likes operations but I was relatively calm until the doctor arrived. ‘Ah, Mr Lockley,’…
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October 2026 Meeting Report: a Grand Evening Out
Chairman Simon prised a few recalcitrants out of the Dickens Bar and welcomed 17 members and two guests, plus our speaker, to the Grand Hotel. The room itself was so vast that he was but a mere pin prick in the distance and members had to turn up their hearing aids to full volume to…
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October 2026 Meeting: the Birth of the Grand Hotel
Gentlemen – your Catering Officer has arranged an interesting new venue for the next meeting the newly revitalised Grand Hotel on St Nicholas Cliff on Thursday 15 October 2026 with the meal to be followed by a talk entitled “ The Birth of the Grand Hotel” by local expert and historian Stewart MacDonald. Will members…
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Rugby Match: Scarborough v Sandal
Gentlemen – your Sports Officer Darren invites you to join him at Scarborough Rugby Club on Saturday 31 October 2026 for a 2 course lunch followed by the Regional North East 1 match between Scarborough and Sandal. Scarborough were promoted at the end of last season although they have met Sandal in previous seasons with…
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Report on Business Meeting held on 17 September 2026
Chairman Simon welcomed 17 members to the first meeting of the 41 Club year held at the Crescent Hotel on Thursday 17 September 2026. After a short welcoming address from our Chairman members enjoyed an excellent steak pie served with chips and mushy pies followed by sticky toffee pudding. The only hitch was when Sports…
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September 2026 Meeting: Meet your new Chairman Simon
Gentlemen – why not celebrate the start of another 41 Club year with your new Chairman Simon on Thursday 17 September 2026 at the Crescent Hotel on the Crescent. Will members please gather in the bar of the hotel from 7.00 pm for a 7.30pm start. For anyone interested in having a proper pint before…
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Report on the Archery Competition held on 1 September 2026
The archery evening went ahead on the 1st September having been well organized as ever by our Sports Officer, Darren Kellet. Thirteen intrepid would-be archery champions from both 41 Club and Round Table turned up at the Scarborough Archers Club field in Osgodby and were welcomed by half a dozen club members who had kindly given…
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SIMON SAYS – The Chairman’s Newsletter – August 2026
Gentlemen, ‘Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink!’ to paraphrase the famous line from the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. Living on the coast it does feel a bit like that at the time of writing, and we have actually been more fortunate than those living further south. Anyway, with September looming no…
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Report on the annual Quoits Competition held on 12 August 2026
This year there was such a good turn out for Sports Officer Darren’s annual Quoits Competition held on Wednesday 12 August 2026 from members of 41 Club, Farts and Round Table that the 18 competitors (including a member of the Beck Hole Quoits Club) had to be divided into an unprecedented 6 teams of 3.…
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Chairman Simon’s Report on Scarborough 41 Club Charity Road Trip – July 2026
With money raised from both the Charter Night held in March and the Charity Box Immediate Past Chairman Richard and myself recently set off on a road trip to make the charitable donations previously approved by the membership. The first stop was Saint Catherine’s Hospice where Richard and I were joined by Stuart armed with…