Whitehaven???

Question

For anyone familiar with the Whitehaven (UK) area...

How far away is 'The Marchon Club' from the train station?

and

Do they have a website or a contact number/address where you can purchase tickets for the gigs from?

...also....

Is there any fair priced accommodation near to the club? (details please.)

Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

Hi,

I found that site ;
BOTH semi-finals in the John Smith County Individual Championship are to be staged in Keswick’s Derwent Club.

Robert Sim of the Marchon Club will take on Portland Club’s Alan Armstrong on Thursday.

Then a week later on April 5 it’s the turn of Neil Harrison, also from Portland Club in Carlisle, to challenge the holder John Airey, of Penrith.

Both semi-finals are the best of nine frames.

Both Sim and Airey have been well fancied throughout the competition to go all the way for what would be a dream final.

But the two young Carlisle players will undoubtedly have something to say about that.

Sim, however, did not have his own way in the quarter final tie against veteran former champion Mike Dawson, from the Workington Conservative Club.

Although the score of 4-2 to Sim suggests a clear win it was far from that as Dawson missed his chances to take the match.

County champion Airey negotiated his quarter-final tie with a 4-3 win over Railway Club player Kevin Bassnet.

Another Workington Cons player, Julian Plaza, travelled to Carlisle to make his challenge against the Portland Club’s Alan Armstrong.

Both players struggled to find any consistent form but it was the Carlisle player who went into the semi-finals with a 4-1 win.

The quarter-finals proved to be the graveyard for a third Workington Cons player, Mike Park. He went out 4-2 to the young Portland Club player Neil Harrison who is showing some good form despite entering for the very first time.

In earlier rounds Sim, who won the title in 2003 and 2004, had a walk-over and beat Barrow’s Tony Mason, Keswick’s Steve Hodgson and Barrow’s Tom Millington.

In the first round Armstrong beat a fellow Carlisle player Giles Finnegan, then got a walk-over and then beat Workington John Street’s Peter O’Hagan.

Airey, champion twice in 2002 and 2006, got his defence underway defeating twice-previous champion Tony Milliard of Kendal and John Street’s Mark Tunstall 4-1.

Harrison has beaten Penrith’s Paul Kipling and Whitehaven’s Vito Shipple

Ref : http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/unknown/viewarticle.aspx?id=479839