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Pendle Win 2012 Federation Jubilee Festival of Croquet

Successful Pendle team – Federation Jubilee Festival Champions 2012

Whatever did we do to upset the weather gods? They threw everything at us during the 2012 Federation Festival of Croquet – dark clouds, heavy rain, high winds, thunder, even a few hailstones, before relenting their punishment to give us glorious sunshine for our presentations. This was the biggest Festival tournament to date and the 27 teams representing 9 clubs seemed to agree it was also the most enjoyable. The Southport club take great pride in hosting this event and provided an environment that would be difficult to better. The amount of work involved in preparing and setting out 15 lawns each day is staggering not to mention the awesome standard of catering which served about 80 players daily. The infamous North Lawns were in their best ever condition demonstrating the progress made since the club took full responsibility for their maintenance earlier this year. The opportunity to meet so many croquet players from across the region in one event makes this Festival unique and continually reminds us why we have a strong North West Federation – together we succeed in making Croquet a competitive endeavour played in a spirit of great friendship.The Golf competition was won by Pendle who won all their matches. Similarly, Westmorland won the Handicap competition , remaining undefeated in this event. Llanfairfechan only lost one of their Short matches to take the Short trophy. In a tense final match, Fylde won the Advanced shield (for the second year running).Team performance in each event gains points to determine the championship club. By a small margin Pendle were declared 2012 Festival Champions with Westmorland a close runner up.

	SHORT	GOLF	HCP	ADV	Pts	Place
Bowdon	5	-----	2	-----	7	8
Bury	2	3	3	1	9	7
Chester	4	4	4	-----	12	3
Culcheth	-----	2	-----	-----	2	9
Fylde	3	1	5	3	12	3 =
Llanfairfechan	7	5	-----	-----	12	3 =
Pendle	6	8	-----	-----	14	1
Southport	1	6	1	2	10	6
Westmorland	-----	7	6	-----	13	2

Advanced Winners - Fylde — Advanced Winners – Fylde

Handicap Winners - Westmorland — Handicap Winners – Westmorland

N.W. Fed. Festival of Croquet 2012

The teams they came from Timbuktu,
All decked in colours, red and blue.
The challenge rang the North West through,
For Southport’s croquet lawns.

Frantic members measured lines,
Laid the hoops twice, fifteen times,
Spread tea and buffet super fine,
For Southport’s croquet lawns.

Gazebos raised defied the rain.
And sure enough the rain it came.
But wind and hail don’t stop the game
On Southport’s croquet lawns.

Black clouds thundered overhead
And to the clubhouse spectators sped,
But on they played the North West Fed
On Southport’s croquet lawns.

Four events, twenty seven teams,
Hundred plus players walked the greens,
Made a real inspiring scene
On Southport’s croquet lawns.

Brave at golf Rod Sutton played,
Newly joined, but not afraid,
To join in matches here assayed
On Southport’s croquet lawns.

Our Advanced team scooped up second place,
The Golf team’s third did not disgrace,
But trophies eluded every chase
On Southport’s croquet lawns.

The Advanced was won by Fylde I reckon
The Short went west with Llanfairfechan
Westmorland’s Handicap won collection,
From Southport’s croquet lawns.

But Golf gave Pendle pride of place,
The sun shone to light the winners’ face.
Best in the North West is no disgrace
On Southport’s croquet lawns.

The hoards of players dissolved away
Reflecting on friends they made at play
But will return another day
To Southport’s croquet lawns.

By Kath Thomas, SBCC, 2^nd July 2012

Short Winners - Llanfairfechan — Short Winners – Llanfairfechan

Golf Winners - Pendle — Golf Winners – Pendle

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Levens Hall Gardens, Kendal, Cumbria, LA8 0PD

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Welcome to Westmorland Croquet

Set in the world-famous gardens of Levens Hall, our members enjoy the friendly atmosphere of a welcoming club. Regular club times ensure that members can just turn up and find others to play with and there are several social events throughout the season that include non-playing partners.

We have annual club competitions for Association and Golf croquet and also play inter-club matches.

As we are in private grounds it is necessary for prospective players to contact the Secretary or Chairman in the first instance – contact details are available on the club website.

When to Play:
The club has access to 2 ‘full’ lawns and 1 ‘short’ lawn or 5 ‘short’ lawns. The lawns are open from the start of April to mid October, between 10.00 and 18.00 from Sunday to Thursday.

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