History
Stowmarket Bridge Club was started in 1970 at the Rookery Bowls Club in Stowmarket.
Rubber bridge was played on Monday evenings and duplicate bridge on Friday evenings. The club could only meet from September to April of each year, because the Bowls club used the hall during the summer! This situation was tolerated until 1982.
In 1982, two of the original members (Arthur Winchester and Irene Edmondson) found suitable new premises at the Thorntree Centre in Milton Road South and the bridge club left the Rookery.
Since Mondays weren't available, the bridge club met only on Friday nights to play duplicate bridge. In the same year, the club became affiliated to the English Bridge Union.
In September 2005 it was agreed to play on a second night and duplicate is also now played on a Wednesday night.
