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Monday 14 November 2011

A bit of Club History

Breakingstone Angling Club

A very quick update about the origins of Breakingstone Angling Club for a very new Blog that Nick Hancock has very kindly set up. For some reason he has given me “Administrative Rights”, which I am sure he will come to regret, but here goes.
Breakingstone Angling Club was founded during a very informal meeting at Dowty Ashchurch Clubhouse on 23rd February 1993. To be honest I have had some fun just reading through the very first AGM that we held on 12th March 1993 when we gave the Club the name and decided on some of the rules that we still have on our venue sheet to this day. You would be surprised at some of the names that were present at that meeting, I am sure that some of you will know the majority of them:-
Paul Kelly, Mike Teakle, Mike Willis Snr., Mark Smallman, Tim Gibbs, Simon Gibbs, Steve Griffiths, Chris Martin, Peter Gunston and Robert Turley, plus a few that you more mature gents might remember, like, Dave Cotton-Bettridge, Colin Summers, Cliff Mason, Barry Kirton (better know as Mr Tewkesbury) Jim Cross and Mac (real name Ian McAllen). I hope that those names have put a smile on some of your faces and raised fond memories. It just goes to show that Breakingstone Angling Club has a strong core of members, with some still fishing with us and some, that although still fishing, have decided not to fish with us anymore.
Now, 19 AGM’s later, some of the people on the Committee are still the same, some of the rules are still the same, but, I think it’s fair to say, we have come a long way as a club. At the moment we have money in the bank, but, unfortunately no water of our own to spend it on. The Committee did discuss only fishing matches at ‘Commercials’ quite a few years ago and decided against it, but, unfortunately this has now been forced upon us until we can find another venue to call home!!
End of the trip down memory lane and back to reality, I hope that you guys will keep checking this blog and will find it useful.

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