The Spring meeting took place at the Village Hall on Saturday March 12th 2022 and was well attended.
We are sad to report that our former member Thurza Alcorn passed away on Friday 25th February 2022. Our thoughts
are with Dave and the family.
Thurza's funeral was on Friday March 18th at Torquay Crematorium and this was
followed by a wake at the club.
Saturday December 4th 2021 - The Christmas Dinner at the Paignton Club went well,
most people were pleased with the food and the room layout this year, which was an improvement on our last visit two
years ago. The Disco managed to get quite a few members up and dancing for
most of the evening.
The Venue has been re-booked for December 10th 2022..
The Christmas draw winning numbers are shown on the list on the Members only page.
The 2021 AGM was held on Saturday October 9th 2021, in the upstairs room at Marldon Village Hall where there was plenty of space to allow for social distancing.
Colin Cradock was presented with Presidential chain of office from outgoing Presidents John and June.
John and June thank everyone for their generosity for the 2020-2021 Presidents' Charity. (Ricky Grant Unit, Torbay Hospital). £119 was raised from the 2020 Bring and Buy, £90 has been received in Donations, £106 at the Presidents' coffee morning on Jan 18th 2020 and £200 on Valentines evening (2020). In 2021 we have sold a set of bowls for £40 and collected another £96 from a raffle at the Apple Pie Fair, increasing the total raised to £651. A really good Presidents Day 2021 and Tickle Trophy day raised the final total to £1622.62. A cheque for £1625 was to be sent to the Ricky Grant Unit, Torbay Hospital but at the AGM a member generously agreed to add another £375 to make a grand total of £2000 to be sent to the Hospital.
Terry Grant accepts the cheque on behalf of the Ricky Grant Unit from Outgoing Presidents, John and June Gibbons
All our club competitions have now been played and the results are on the Competitions Page. The trophies are now engraved and have been presented to the winners. The players were unable to arrange date for Men's Pairs Final so Ray and Terry had to forfeit the game.
It has been decided that we will be unable to organise a Marldon 4's tournament this season so it has now been cancelled. We are hoping to hold this event in 2022 on Sunday August 7th.
To help with COVID regulations we decided to buy some more mats. Many thanks to the members that responded to our request for help with the purchase of these mats. If you did not have an opportunity to buy a mat, don't worry we will have more fund raising events later in the season
We have learnt of the recent death of one of our former members, Brian Kendall. Brian and his wife Val were well liked members of our club, who left a few years ago. Our thoughts are with his family. Brian's Funeral was on 26th July 2021 at 2pm at Torquay Crematorium.
We were extremely saddened to hear that two of our members, Alan Parker and his wife Pauline, both passed away recently.
Alan passed away on Thursday
October 7th 2021 in Torquay Hospital where he was being treated in the Covid 19 Ward.
Alan's wife Pauline who was being treated in the same ward passed away on
Monday 11th October.
There was a joint funeral for Alan and Pauline at Torquay Crematorium on Tuesday 26th October at 11:15am.
Our sincere condolences go to Alan & Pauline's families.
Both Marldon teams lost in the Quarter finals this year.
The semi finals and final were played at Marldon on 11th September. In the Semi Finals TCBC won
fairly comfortably against Paignton 'B' winning 34 -8, whilst in the other Semi Final Paignton 'A' played Abbrook Park 'A' winning 25-17
The final, between Paignton 'A' and TCBC 'A', was won by Paignton 'A'.
Winners 
Runners-Up
The final was played at Marldon on Sept 11th and was won by Kingsbridge Park with Abbrook park finishing as runners up.
Winners
Runners-up.
The EBA advertised nationally to try to attract new players into the game, and we joined in by advertising and hosting three open sessions,
on May 29th, 30th and 31st from 10am until noon. Due to the Covid Restriction we asked people to pre-book, and a few people did this and arrived to try the
game.
We have recruited a few new members as a result of this weekend.
The finals of this event on Saturday September 11th was a contest betweeen R Levy and B Bond of Babbacombe and our own players, Colin Whiley and Graham Walton representing Marldon. Although the Babbacombe pair had the edge for much of the game the Marldon players never gave up and only lost by five shots. The final score was 20-15 to Babbacombe.
Winners: 
Runners-up:
This was a walkover for Kingsbridge Park (D Hurrell) as the opponent had to withdraw due to injury.
The Tickle Trophy was contested on Sunday 3rd October, and was won by Ray O'Brien, Colin Whiley, Mike Thomas and Ed Sosnowski. After the completion of the Tickle Trophy, the presentation of trophies to the winners of this year's Club Competitions was done, and a good turn-out meant that we managed to present almost all of the trophies to the Winners. We also had a nice ploughmans lunch after the game.
Tickle Trophy Winners: 
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Notices have been posted in the changing rooms for entries for County Major and Minor Competitions for 2022. The closing date for entries has now passed. Good luck to anyone who has entered.
The committee have agreed an amendment to a couple of the Club rules. Whereas you were not allowed to roll up while a game was in progress in the green,
this was considered excessively harsh if the game was only a two rink 'over 55' league game or a three rink game. The new ruling is that you are allowed
to roll up/practice when a club game is in progress if you can leave a spare rink between you and the game. (whether this is possible will depend on which rinks
the game is using.)
The other change is to remove the reference to a fee of £3 for Social members and Guests who wish to use the green for a roll up.
The current fee is £3 (payable to committee person on duty, or honesty box in Captain's office) but we have taken the amount out of the rules so
the committee can change the fees at any time, without having to update and reprint the rules each time they do so.
We are saddened to hear news that after suffering with Cancer for a while, our former member, Chris Alcock, died on November 19th 2020.
Her funeral was held at Marldon Church on December 7th and due to Covid Restrictions limiting the number of people allowed at the funeral the family
are considering holding a memorial service in Marldon Church this summer.
Our Sympathy goes to Mike and her family. May she Rest in Peace.
Chris was a popular, enthusiastic and active member of the club, taking on a number of key roles during her time with us.
She probably also has the best bowling record for a lady bowler at our club and I have listed the roles and achievements I can remember below.
1995-1997 - Ladies Secretary/Delegate
2009-2011 - Fixture Secretary
2013 - Club President
4 x Ladies Singles Champion – 1995, 2008, 2009, 2010. Runner up 2012, 2013
7 x Ladies 2 Wood Champion - 1996, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012. Runner up 2011
7 x Ladies Handicap Champion – 1999, 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013. Runner up 2012
Awarded County Badge -2012.
Ladies Pairs Winner 2000, 2010, 2013.
Mixed Pairs Winner - 2007.
Partnered Pairs Winner – 2007.
Chris was also in the Winning Ladies Triple on 3 occasions 2000, 2007, 2009 and once runner up (2013) and a Mixed triples winner 2008 & Runner up 2011.
We were saddened to hear of the death in September 2020 of former member Dennis Mountford. Dennis was one of our Founder Directors when we formed the company Marldon Bowls Club Ltd, and he was also our company secretary for a while. His name is to be found on our bowling honours board as he and his wife won the 'Partnered Pairs' competition in the year 2000. R.I.P. Dennis.
All the original fixtures for the 2020 season were cancelled, due to the Coronavirus situation
However, we managed to play a number of replacement fixtures whilst complying with the Covid -19 regulations. These were 4 rink mixed triples events all played at other venues apart from one internal club triples event amongst our own members. We played :-
Monday July 27th 2pm (away) at Paignton/Torbay
Monday August 3rd - Kings BC (Away)
Monday August 24th - Torquay (Away) and
Thursday August 27th - Buckfastleigh (Away) Postponed (rain)
Wednesday September 2nd - Buckfastleigh (Away)
Friday September 18th - Club Triples game (Full members only) (Home)
Our Round Robin 'Covid Aware' singles competition was been completed. It went very well, keeping 24 members bowling at least once a week from June until Early September. The winner was Peter Dunkley, with Bob Tame as runner up. We also had a Silver final between Alan Drayton and Graham Dowell which was won by Graham, and a plate final between Barry Hodges and Paul Stretton won by Paul Stretton
We also had pairs games on a Thursday morning. Players used the telephone booking system to advise if they would be attending and pairs were drawn on the day. The Pairs competition finished with Graham Walton and Colin Whiley being the winners.
We unfortunately had to cancel the 2020 Marldon 4's tournament and a letter was sent to advise all the teams that had entered.
We would like to thank Member Ray Sandercock for the donation of additional security cameras for the club, and a media player.
Marldon members entered a team in the Thursday league at TLH. They managed to play three games before the last 'lockdown', but it looks unlikely that the season will resume. You will find the results/league table via our results page.
The TLH Indoor leagues were almost at the end of the season when it was curtailed due to the first 'Lockdown'. The Maple Leafs completed their fixtures and the Buzzards only had one game left, on 31st March 2020. You will find the latest league tables on our results page. The tops teams did bring the league to a conclusion later in the year, but everyone else's fixtures were cancelled.
The Winter Short Mat Bowls sessions in the village hall finished early. The last two sessions in March were cancelled. We hoped a new season would start in October 2020, but Covid 19 stopped the village hall from re-opening.
The December social event in the club was Italian Night on Friday December 20th with Italian food available and a quiz. There was a good turnout and everyone enjoyed the evening.
The Christmas meal on Dec 7th at the Paignton Club appears to have been successful, everyone arrived on time and the meals were good. More people than usual stayed afterwards for a dance on the disco floor, but for those who didn't dance there was room to sit and chat. The round tables were a little small for 8 people but I'm sure that will be addressed if we go there again. Don't forget that Fran would like to retire from organising this event in future, so if we have any willing volunteers to take over, please let the committee know.
Trophy Presentation Night took place in the Clubhouse on Friday November 1st 2019 with 2019 President Lynda Taylor presenting the trophies. RNLI representative Lynn Spillett also came along and found us to be a "welcoming, friendly club!". The RNLI was the chosen charity of 2019 President Lynda Taylor, who handed over a cheque for £720.50 plus £29.72 from the collection box.......total £750.22.
The MDL Cup finals were held at Paignton on Saturday 14th September 2019.
In the fours final, supported by a number of Spectators from Marldon, Marldon's team, consisting of John Gibbons, Ed Sosnowski, Tony Mason and Doug Potter took on a team from Bovey Tracey. In a close fought game Marldon were successful, forcing their opponents to concede at 20 ends. The winning rink posed for a photo with the cup after the game.
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Or on the Gallery link above to see a few pictures from Captains' day 2019.
The Over 55 league Finals were held on Marldon's green on Wednesday 11th September 2019.
In the Semi-Finals, Brixham St Mary BC took on Brixham BC and were winners, whilst in the other Semi Final Teignmouth Den BC faced Bitton Park with Bitton Park BC being the winners.
In the Final, Brixham St Mary won a close game against Bitton Park, while Brixham took third place by beating Teignmouth Den in the third place playoff game.
Winning team from Brixham St Mary
Runners up from Bitton Park
Third - Brixham B.C.
Fourth - Teignmouth Den B.C.
Also this month Marldon provided a rink for Section 6 of the Minor Men's Coronation Cup 2019, played as a four rink game by all 10 sections of Bowls Devon. The teams representing Section 6 were Brixham St Mary's, Paignton, Paignton Torbay & our very own Marldon and Section 6 won the Coronation Cup @ Bideford Strand on Sunday 18th August.
Players for Marldon were:- Alan Routledge, Doug Potter, Andy Pearson & Barry Hodges.
From 8-30 this morning team's started arriving for this year's open four's competition. All told, 24 teams competed for the trophy. At the end of the afternoon the three teams finishing in the prize money were...
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3rd place Tug Wilson
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First place & the Trophy going to Pam Grant,
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2nd place Arthur Conway.
On behalf of all teams & members of MBC a big vote of thanks to Carole Page and all who helped with the catering, John Morgan on car park duty, Gordon Page & Barry Hodges for looking after the bar. Paul Stretton for his hard work on the green. The three Colin's Whiley & Colin Cradock for scoring, Colin Mills our umpire. Lastly to the main lady Fran Vallis for her sterling organisation.
Thank you
Members who deserve a mention. ( I apologise now if I miss any one out ) In no order. Patsy Edwards, Valerie Howe, Theresa Cornelius, Christine Read, Sue Muller, Jane Lake, Maureen Stanley, Dave Alcorn, Ricky Knapp, John Gibbons & June Gibbons, John & Christine Gilbert. Not forgetting Roger from Torquay...
Report from Colin Whiley.