The UK Federation of Pipe Clubs
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PC, City:
Tel. No:
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National President
Name: Mark Dyer
Address:
PC, City:
Phone private:
Phone job:
E-mail: mdyer.upgladeltd@gmail.com
Vice President
Mr. Bernhard Allotey of the Pipe Club of London
Organisation
The UK Federation of Pipe Clubs co-ordinates all UK activity for the below list of UK pipeclubs. Please get in touch with our President – Mark Dyer, if you are pasionate about or even just interested in, Pipes and Pipe smoking. Of course you can also contact any of theses clubs directly:
Associated Pipeclubs
Edinburgh Pipe Club – www
John Hollingsworth Pipe Club – facebook
Nottingham Pipe Club – www
Pipe Club of Norfolk – www
Pipe Club of London – www
Smokers Forums Pipe Club – www
South West Pipe Club – email
Yorkshire Pipe Club – www, facebook
UK Pipe and tobacco club
Miscellaneous information
Keep your eyes peeled for a pipe smoker!
Pipe Smoker of the Year
Pipe Smoker of the Year was an award given out annually by the British Pipesmokers’ Council, to honour a famous pipe-smoking individual. Initiated in 1964 as Pipeman of the Year by the Briar Pipe Trade Association, it was presented at a lunch in London’s Savoy Hotel each January. The award was discontinued in 2004 because its organisers feared it fell foul of laws banning all advertising and promotion of tobacco. The award was reintroduced in 2014, by the UK Federation of Pipe Clubs, at the British Pipe Smoking Championship at Newark Showground. In a departure from previous awards the recipient was not a celebrity, but the outgoing President of the UK Federation of Pipe Clubs Brian Mills, in recognition for his personal contribution in recommencing the British Pipe Smoking Championships.
Pipe Smokers of the Year
1964 – Rupert Davies
1965 – Harold Wilson
1966 – Andrew Cruickshank
1967 – Warren Mitchell[i]
1968 – Peter Cushing
1969 – Jack Hargreaves
1970 – Eric Morecambe
1971/72[ii] – Lord Shinwell
1973 – Frank Muir
1974 – Fred Trueman
1975 – Campbell Adamson
1976 – Harold Wilson (Pipeman of the Decade)
1977 – Brian Barnes
1978 – Magnus Magnusson
1979 – J. B. Priestley
1980 – Edward Fox[iii]
1981 – James Galway
1982 – Dave Lee Travis
1983 – Patrick Moore
1984 – Henry Cooper
1985 – Jimmy Greaves
1986 – David Bryant
1987 – Barry Norman
1988 – Ian Botham
1989 – Jeremy Brett
1990 – Laurence Marks
1991 – John Harvey-Jones
1992 – Tony Benn
1993 – Rod Hull
1994 – Ranulph Fiennes
1995 – Jethro
1996 – Colin Davis
1997 – Malcolm Bradbury
1998 – Willie John McBride
1999 – Trevor Baylis
2000 – Joss Ackland
2001 – Russ Abbot
2002 – Richard Dunhill[2]
2003 – Stephen Fry
2014 – Brian Mill
Mark Dyer presenting Brian Mills with his Pipe Smoker of the Year 2014 award.
British Pipe Smoking Champions
1996 Len Ellis 1 hour 16 minutes 32 seconds
1997 Lawrie Malden 1 hour 3 minutes 16 seconds
1998 Andrew Briggs 2 hours 5 minutes 15 seconds
1999 Nigel Ley 1 hour 11 minutes 6 seconds
2000 Len Ellis 1 hour 32 minutes 9 seconds
2001 Andrew Briggs 1 hour 21 minutes 12 seconds
2002 Mark Dyer 52 minutes 14 seconds
2003 Guy Martin 1 hour 38 minutes 31 seconds
2004 Reg Stevens 1 hour 20 minutes 18 seconds
2005 Alex Burn 1 hour 19 minutes 23 seconds
2006 Andrew Briggs 1 hour 50 minutes 1 second
2007 Tim Knight 1 hour 17 minutes 18 seconds
2012 Antonio Pascual 57 minutes 8 seconds
2013 Alex Burn 1 hour 0 minutes 14 seconds
2014 Ian Hurst 1 hour 19 minutes 13 seconds
2023 Jorge Sanz, UKPTC, 1 hour 07 minutes 16 seconds