We (OK, then, our hard-working secretary) has started a project to digitise our photo archive, and the first results are now available at Photo Gallery 2005, which is reachable from our Photo Galleries heading. Unfortunately, there is no useful information on the reverse of the prints (or anywhere else, come to that) so the identies […]
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Competition Update
The League Results grids have both been uploaded and the first match has been played already in the Singles Knockout Cup. All details can be found on our Competitions page.
Club Knockout Singles Cup Draw
The draw for the Knockout Singles Cup was held in the Claret & Ale yesterday Friday. The draw was made by Club Secretary John Desbottes, in the presence of Gary Greenman, Terry Eames and Cliff Brett, and was supervised by Competition Organiser Richard Scrimshaw. Details of the draw can be found on our 2023 Competitions […]
Piste Resurfaced
The beach, which was starting to get a little bare in places, has been resurfaced by Croydon Council.
Merry Christmas from all at CPC
Everyone at Croydon Petanque Club would like to wish our reader a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Friendly match arranged
We have arranged to play Sutton Highfield in a friendly match at Ashburton Park on Monday August 8th at 13:30. This match will be between teams of 6. An availability sheet, for Croydon members, is on the club notice board. The team will be selected on Friday July 29th.
Singles Knockout Final
The inaugural final of this new competition was played on Friday September 24th between David Randall and Ash Patel in front of a healthy number of spectators. David finished the winner by 13-7. The detailed scoring was as follows: End David Randall Ash Patel 1 1 1 0 0 2 2 3 0 0 3 […]
Mark Barlow Day
Sunday 5th September saw Croydon Petanque Club hold The Mark Barlow tournament, in remembrance of Mark, who sadly passed away in 2020 from coronavirus. Mark had often spoken to his work colleagues about his passion for the game, filling them in on where he’d spent his weekend playing, come rain or shine. It is because […]
2021 AGM – finally!
Like so many organisations, we had to get creative with our 2021 AGM. Having already dealt with most of the routine matters with the agreement of the membership, we were able to conclude the formalities via an outside meeting last Saturday (May 22nd) on the terrain. Due to the previous heavy rain making the hard […]
Club Session for Saturday 17th
In view of the timing of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, and the general expecttaion that the country will pause while it is on, the committee have decided to bring forward the regular Saturday Club Session on the 17th to 10:00, instead of its normal 13:00.
