Chester members playing Croquet in Westminster Park were photographed by a Reuters photographer (Molly Darlington) and subsequently featured in an article in the Ottawa Citizen on the outbreak of Coronavirus in the UK.

You can see more photos on the Reuters website:

https://pictures.reuters.com/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2C0FCI1H8YUSO&SMLS=1&RW=1280&RH=881

Two Chester players feature in an article in the latest issue of the U3A magazine ‘Third Age Matters’. Sally Slater is the new U3A Subject Adviser on croquet and John Dawson is a member of the Chester U3A as well as the governing body of the Croquet Association, the CA Council.

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Fed up of M6 Traffic Jams? – Travel the Chester Way

High flying Chester club was thinking ( laterally and vertically ) of ways to make next season even more exciting. Why not take a seaplane trip from the River Dee up to the estuary of the River Crake to play the eponymous club? Or a helicopter ride to Pendle to avoid both the M6 and the M65?

As a winter social outing, 18 members of Chester club visited the Aviation Park at near by Broughton to learn more about the airfield where Wellington bombers were assembled in WW2 and now a whole variety of planes are parked. The privately owned small planes and helicopters we expected but were staggered to discover the airfield was a dumping ground for a multitude of planes from the former USSR. Some were complete but others were in bits.

In the Spring we are planning a second Broughton outing – to see and learn about the 21st century technology used in the manufacture of Airbus wings.

Not sure it will improve our croquet but it was good fun”