Tonbridge Daily: Nizels Golf Club

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Wednesday, 10 July 2013

New President for Tonbridge Lions Club

Tonbridge Lions Club’s new President Keith Bourne with predecessor Mike Stout

On Sunday June 30 Keith Bourne was inaugurated as the sixty-fourth President of Tonbridge Lions Club. Outgoing President, Mike Stout, presented Keith with the chain of office at a luncheon at Nizels Golf Club.

Keith has lived in the Tonbridge area for most of his life. With three children, two grandchildren and married to Valerie he still gets time to be involved with sports, music and of course the Tonbridge Lions Club which he is honoured to represent as President for the next 12 months.

Formerly a Logistics Manager and Engineer for B.T. followed by other interesting local jobs he is now retired, apart from occasionally acting a Dance Host on cruise liners with Valerie. They enjoy the company of their families and friends on visits to the theatre, local concerts and the Royal Opera House.

With a passion for racquet sports and a keen football fan, mainly following Gillingham FC, Keith is now revisiting his youth by playing table tennis. Another of his pastimes is collecting old ‘Whitbread Inn signs’ which has resulted in much research!

His father was a founder member of the Tonbridge Lions Club in 1950 and Keith is now both privileged and proud to become President of this great club, and along with Valerie looks forward to the year ahead.

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

New Tonbridge Lions Club President

On Saturday 30th June Mike Stout was inaugurated as the sixty-third President of Tonbridge Lions Club. Outgoing President, Allan Mort, presented Mike with the chain of office at a dinner dance at Nizels Golf Club.

Mike was brought up in Mitcham, Surrey and for the majority of his working life worked for a private practice in Croydon, as a quantity surveyor, on major construction projects in the UK and abroad before taking early retirement in March 2012.

He has been married to Penny for 39 years and they have two married children, Karen and Richard and two granddaughters, Abigail and Charlotte.

Mike has lived in Tonbridge for 36 years, and apart from his family his main interests are playing golf, walking and supporting Tonbridge Angels Football Club. He considers it a great honour and privilege to become President of the oldest Lions Club in the country and along with Penny they are looking forward to the presidential year ahead.

Saturday, 25 February 2012

A Statue Of Our Enry

I read this week that Henry Cooper, will be immortalised in bronze by a Staffordshire sculptor and the finished work will eventually stand in London. Maybe it would have been fitting for a statue of 'Our Enry' to have had pride of place somewhere in Tonbridge, as he did live in the far northern reaches of the town for a while, and had strong links with Nizels Golf Club in Hildenborough where he was Chairman. Many Tonbridge members of the club have played a round of golf with Henry, and enjoyed a drink with him at the bar. Locals say that he regularly 'splashed it all over' (the vinegar that is) when he ordered an occasional fish and chip supper from the Rainbow Fish Bar at York Parade. So Henry was really 'Our Enry' for a time in Tonbridge.

Henry's funeral took place last May at Corpus Christi Church in Lyons Crescent, and many sporting celebrities and friends attended the private service. Among them was the late Frank Carson who died recently. The selection of photographs are a few of the many I took that day.