The English Bridge Union is proud to announce that the following people have been awarded the prestigious Dimmie Fleming Award for services to bridge. The awards are made specifically to publicly recognise those who have worked hard promoting bridge locally at County level. Congratulations to all of them. About the Award Who was Dimmie Fleming?
The Dimmie Fleming Award - 2023 Winners
Jim Parker (Derbyshire) (picture)
Ruth Edmondson (Devon)
Fred Kissack (Isle of Man) (picture)
Paul Cutler (Staffs & Shrops)
Lesley Millet (Yorkshire) (picture)
The Dimmie Fleming Award - 2022 Winners
Derek Marsh & Janet Marsh (Bedfordshire) (picture)
Carol Ritzen (Devon) (picture)
Sati McKenzie (London) (picture)
Bernard Kaye (Merseyside & Cheshire) (picture)
Trevor Hobson (Surrey) (picture)
The Dimmie Fleming Award - 2021 Winners
Sarah Mathews (Herefordshire)
Dick Pathan (Leicestershire) (picture)
John Wilcox (Leicestershire) (picture)
Malcolm Carey (Suffolk) (picture)
The Dimmie Fleming Award - 2020 Winners
Elizabeth Kelly, Manx Bridge Union (picture)
Pat Beasley, Leicestershire (picture)
Neil Beasley, Leicestershire (picture)
Peter Pennington-Smith, Norfolk (picture)
John Withers, Staffs & Shrops (picture)
Dick Wheeler, Sussex (picture)
Elayne Meakin, Warwickshire (picture)
Stuart Davies, Yorkshire (picture)
The Dimmie Fleming Award - 2019 Winners
Bernie Hunt, Essex
Austin Barnes, Lancashire
Liz Stevenson, Merseyside & Cheshire
Paul Wilson, Middlesex
Maureen Kimbley, Norfolk
Sheila Coda, Somerset
Shirley Pritchard, Surrey
Phil Bennett, Wiltshire
Janet Latham, Yorkshire
The Dimmie Fleming Award - 2018 Winners
Nigel Thompson, Berks & Bucks (picture)
David Man, Cambs & Hunts (picture)
John Honey, Channel Islands (picture)
Monica Aitken, Kent (picture)
Jacqueline Wright, Lancashire (picture)
Glynn Elwick, Lincolnshire (picture)
Andrea Galpin, Sussex (picture)
Katharine Hodgson, Wiltshire (picture)
The Dimmie Fleming Award - 2017 Winners
Audrey Hartley, Essex
David Muller, London
Terence Treeby, Devon
Mervyn Wotton, Sussex
The Dimmie Fleming Award - 2016 Winners
David Anning, Kent
Julia Brough , Surrey
Peggy Griffin, Surrey
Ron Heath Dorset and Surrey
Chris Larlham, Cambs & Hunts
The Dimmie Fleming Award - 2015 Winners
Barry Brelsford, Lancashire
David Burgess, Nottinghamshire (picture)
Joan Burgess, Nottinghamshire (picture)
Bernard Eddleston, Hertfordshire
David Galpin, Sussex (picture)
Elizabeth Muir, North East (picture)
Leslie Reece, Warwickshire
Geoff Smith, Kent
Charlotte Vine, Middlesex
Colin Woods, Cumbria (picture)
The Dimmie Fleming Award - 2014 Winners
Jim Barker, Cornwall
Joy Mayall, Sussex
Mike Mollart-Rogerson, Hants & IOW
Robert Northage, Leicestershire
Bob Warrender, Somerset
The Dimmie Fleming Award - 2013 Winners
Tony Philpot, Essex (1st photo above, with John Williams, Essex chairman)
Kevin Comrie, Manchester (4th photo above)
Peter Bates, Sussex (3rd photo above, with Sally)
Roger Poulter, Sussex (2nd photo above)
2012 Winners
Tom Garrett, Berks & Bucks
Penny Riley, Cambs & Hunts
Elaine Proctor, Lincolnshire (picture)
Judy Mitchell, Staffs & Shrops (picture)
Jackie Clinton, Sussex
2011 winners
Derek Povah, Derbyshire (picture)
Megan Taft, Lancashire (picture)
Drene Brown, Lincolnshire (picture)
Roger Morton, London (picture)
Ted Reveley, Merseyside & Cheshire (picture)
Ken Drane, Middlesex (picture)
Nigel Block, Norfolk (picture)
Christine Buchanan, Norfolk (picture)
Suzanne Gill, Norfolk (picture)
2010 winners
David & Anne Gilling, Bedfordshire (picture)
Dave Harrison, Cambs & Hunts (picture)
Geoff Bell, Cumbria (picture)
Anne Swannell, Gloucestershire (picture)
Derek Rue, Gloucestershire (picture)
Mike Minting, Hertfordshire (picture)
Bill McCarthy, Oxfordshire (picture)
Peter Langston, Sussex (picture)
Ted Bond, Yorkshire (picture)
2009 Winners
Bob Blackmore, who last August won the first John Armstrong Memorial Award, is now the recipient of the Dimmie Fleming Award for services to bridge. Bob is a player of the highest standard who has won almost every competition in Devon and has represented that County in national events on numerous occasions. He was a founder member of the Exeter Bridge Club, and has been its unpaid financial director since 1994. He has used that position to promote the interests of bridge both for the club and the Devon Bridge Association. Bob largely gave up competitive bridge to take on the role of encouraging young players and those new to the game. For as long as most people can remember, nobody has worked harder for bridge in Devon than Bob Blackmore.
2008 Winners
Stan Harding - Hertfordshire (picture)
Roy Hughes - Lincolnshire (picture)
Roger Amey - Norfolk (picture)
Philip Wraight - Westmorland (picture)
2007 Winners
Kay Batting - Sussex (picture)
Paul Hammond - Worcestershire (picture)
Margaret Hatch - Berks & Bucks (picture)
Peter Thompson - Gloucestershire (picture)
Colin Tuton - Northamptonshire (picture)
Please click on their names for a mini-biography of each winner.
2006 Winners
Gladys Gittins, Cambs & Hunts (picture)
Hector Barker, Lancashire
Michael Hill, London (picture)
Robbie Roberson, Norfolk (picture)
May Langmaid, Sussex (picture)
Please click on their names for a mini-biography of each winner.
2005 winners
John Cattanach, Worcester
Christine Duckworth, London
Pat Panter, Channel Islands
Janet Sheppard, Cumbria
Monica Lucy, Bedfordshire
Rita Keable, Bedfordshire
Mike de Winter, Kent
Terry Udall, Dorset
Ramnik Samani, Leicestershire
Picture from left, back row: Monica Lucy, Margaret Curtis (who made the presentations) and Mike de Winter; front row Rita Keable, Pat Panter and Christine Duckworth.
2004 Winners
(pictures)
Jean Newton, Worcestershire
Brian Keable, Bedfordshire
Alan Caves, Bedfordshire
Bob King, Kent
Shelia Warner, Norfolk
Don Smedley, Derbyshire
Peter Bentley, Surrey
2003 Winners
Elaine and John Clague, Isle of Man (picture)
Patricia Gadsby, Sussex
Margaret Lamb, Devon (picture)
Brenda Lihou, Channel Isles
Muriel Thruston, Surrey (picture)
Ray White, Kent (picture)
2002 Winners
Peter Walker, Glos
John Turner, Worcs (picture)
Freddie North, Sussex
Ron Buddery, Sussex (picture)
Frank Berry, Derby
2001 Winners
Yvonne Dagwell, Essex (picture)
John Barratt, Staffs & Shrops
2000 Winners
Yvonne Andrews, Warwickshire (picture)
Pat Burt, Cornwall
Catherine Howell, Isle of Wight
Terry Girdlestone, Somerset
1999 Winners
(picture)
Betty Bartley, Wiltshire
Nigel Osmer, Sussex
Sid Prince, Essex
Eric Pudsey, Yorkshire
1998 Winners
Kay Johns, Channel Islands (picture)
Marion Murtagh, Warwick (picture)
Dawn Herbert, Mersey/Cheshire (picture)
John Herbert, Mersey/Cheshire (picture)
Kit Platt, Surrey (picture)
Mollie Simmons, Hampshire (picture)
1997 Winners
Bill Dalman, Worcestershire
Sandy Constable, Oxon
Winnie Ling, Oxon
Ernest Burston, Derbyshire
John Crowe, Isle of Man (picture)
1996 Winners
Mary Cooney, Cumbria
Jean Baker, Sussex
Morrie Marsh, Oxon
Peter Ashcroft, Devon
1995 Winners
Arthur Brown, Cornwall
SF Collings, Cornwall
Mrs M Holden, Cornwall
Peter Constable, Berks and Bucks
1994 Winners
John Manning, Sussex
Arnold Deane, North East
Joyce Dancey, Gloucestershire
Joan Everett, Channel Islands
John Woolcott, Devon
Julian Hunt, Middlesex
Peter & Erica Slatcher, Merseyside and Cheshire (picture)
1993 Winners
Hylda Townsend, Warwickshire
Allan Packett, Surrey
Dennis Crouch, Sussex
1992 Winners
Eric Sheldon, Sussex
Warwick Pitch, London
Cecil Leighton, London
Hubert Castle, Yorkshire
Endid Trevaskis, Hampshire and IOW
1991 Winners
Jill Gatti, London
Rene Golding, North East
Lionel Gardner, Channel Islands
RW Robinson, Kent
Mrs G Bright, Kent
Dr W Bright, Kent
Graham Kirby, Merseyside and Cheshire
1990 Winners
Ron Allen, Worcestershire
Joyce Hare, Warwickshire
Henry Huggill, Manchester
Don King, Surrey
Kath Coward, Surrey
Lundie Rees, Somerset
Anne Schofield, Lancashire
Gladys Morley, Essex
1989 Winners
Basil Cooke, Staffordshire
Norah Williams, Somerset
John Morley, Essex
Neville Orford, Warwickshire
1988 Winners
Eric Bowtell, Oxon
1987 Winners
F. Dumbleton, Staffordshire
Mrs P. Jones, Devon
Mrs Marjorie Hathaway, Leicestershire
Mr and Mrs A Cleverley, Gloucestershire
R. Knight, Essex
Mrs Mary Edwards, Surrey
Liz Phillips, Surrey
Mrs J Coleman, CILBA
1986 Winners
Mrs G. Ali Khan, Devon
Ken Botton, Derbyshire
Harold Chope, Dorset
Mrs G. Clucksfield, Yorkshire
Charles Cuthbert, Essex
Freddie Della-Porta, London
Wilf Fearn, North West
Frank Fletcher, Essex
Tricia Fletcher, Essex
Philip Graham, Southern Counties and Hampshire & Isle of Wight
J Hewitt, Somerset
Wilf Lamport, Herts
Ged Laurenson, North West
Faff Robinson, North West
Maurice Schram, Essex
Mrs Lucy Shillito, Notts
Bill Skelton, North East
George Taylor, Leicestershire
Noel Vinson OBE, Devon
Iris Waller, Berks & Bucks
1985 Winners
Mrs H Robinson, North West
Mrs Mary Higson, North West
Jack Danby, Isle of Wight
Eric McVitie-Clarke, Devon