Spare a thought this week for Albert Parker. Albert has been a member of the Club for many, many years, but at the end of the 2014-15 league season he had to stop playing competitive league table tennis due to a heart complaint. Since then he has only been able to enjoy some mild social table tennis at the Wednesday social and recreational sessions, it was at one such session that he celebrated his 80th birthday last year (see News Stories 151104). Today (Wednesday) he will at last be going into Broadgreen Hospital for the long awaited major heart surgery which is scheduled for Thursday. We wish him well, his many friends at the Club will be thinking of him and hoping the surgery is successf
My, didn't they look smart in their new Club T shirts! The start of the Liverpool & District Table Tennis League 2016/17 season this week saw all of the Club's teams turning out in the new club strip. A very impressive sight. One team, on a visit to Merseyside Police, found the home team also had new club shirts, and strangely enough they were also in black and red! We shall have to have an 'away' strip too! Seven teams were in action this week, and you might say it was just about honours even. Three wins, three defeats and one draw! All the teams results can be found on the Club website. The Club's top two teams both got off to winning starts. Sam Pierce making his full debut in the 1st Tea
Welcome to the first, of hopefully a number, of thoughts on life at Bath Street Marine TTC. It seems like only yesterday since I previously wrote commenting on the pre-season review for the Club's teams in Division 5 of L&DTTL; but now its another Wednesday, and at Marine today there was a good mix of people as normal, including 2 new people, Sue & Jenny, taking the plunge to join us. Wednesday is a very popular morning for a good old chin wag, catching up with people, finding out what they've been up to and generally just socialising over a game of table tennis or a coffee. But do you ever wonder what people get up to outside of table tennis? Like what did they do the previous weekend, what
