Members

GTRBL Golf Society was founded in 1999, playing once a month, usually on a Sunday.

Our team has its own league, playing to win up to 4 GTRBL trophies, throughout the Spring and Summer months.

Games are played at various courses and participation fees apply to cover course fees, competition prizes and food.

For further information, or if you would like to join our friendly but competitive team, either click the link below or call our Treasurer — Liam Ward on 07796348178 or email gtrblgs@gmail.com.

Our club has a strong snooker reputation and many of our members are avid players.

We have 2 outstanding match tables that are regularly serviced and maintained.

Our snooker team play in both Winter league (division 2) and Summer league, with varying handicaps from -28 to +50.

Practice sessions take place on Tuesday evenings and matches are usually played on a Thursday, alternately playing at home and away.

Any paid-up member of the Grappenhall & Thelwall Royal British Legion (GTRBL) will have fishing rights to a small farm pool near Appleton called Black Duck Pits. This was bequeathed to GTRBL by a local businessman around 1945 for the military personnel who had served in the Second World War as a place of solitude, peace and quiet to help them to recover from their ordeals.

The Pits are shaped like a figure of eight separated by a small footbridge, the front Pit being the deeper of the two with both containing Roach, Rudd, Bream, Perch, Tench and Carp. In the GTRBL Members bar there is a 14 lbs 7oz Pike mounted in a glass case, captured by Mr H Hughes on 13th September 1953. Unfortunately there are no longer any Pike in the two Pits.

Today the Pits are still fishable although the banks and fishing stages require some maintenance. GTRBL have very recently agreed to allow Lymm Angling Club Members to fish the water and in return Lymm AC will provide the required work to repair and replace the damaged banks and fishing stages and they will bailiff the water to deter poaching and protect the water and its stocks. Lymm AC are now involved in helping to restock and manage the water.