OUR NEXT MEETINGS WILL BE ON
THURSDAY 7 SEPTEMBER: (CLAYGATE)
COMMITTEE MEETING FOLLOWED BY DISPLAYS OF RECENT ACQUISITIONS BY MEMBERS, GUESTS AND VISTORS
TUESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER (ZOOM)
"A PHILATELIC RAMBLE AROUND PURBECK" BY CHRIS OLIVER
FRIDAY 15 SEPTEMBER: (CLAYGATE)
MEMBERS' MEETING "MY FAVOURITE COUNTRY": GUESTS AND VISITORS WELCOME
THE FULL PROGRAMME
EVENING MEETINGS
- The Claygate Day Centre, Elm Road, Claygate, KT10 0EH.
- 1 st Thursday or 3 rd Friday in a month. 8pm – 10pm - with a tea/coffee break.
2023
7 September - Committee Meeting (Non committee members can attend but cannot vote) followed by Recent Acquisitions.
15 September - Members’ Meeting: My Favourite country.
5 October - Ron Brown: Channel Islands Occupation WW II
20 October - Members’ Meeting: Postcards.
2 November - Members’ Meeting. Sideline collections which have grown.
17 November - Brian Sole: UK Philatelic Collections.
7 December - Christmas Social and a Presentation by Keith Whitehouse: “Why & how I started collecting”.
15 December - Members’ Meeting: Definitive stamps any country.
2024
4 January - Members’ Meeting: Royalty.
19 January - Joint Auction.
1 February - Chris Oliver. President’s Display. Something South African.
16 February - Members’ Meeting: Commemorative issues any country.
7 March - Members’ Meeting: Olympic Games.
15 March - Annual General Meeting.
4 April - Annual Competition. 19 April - Speaker (to be arranged)
2 May - Members’ Meeting: Holiday travel.
17 May - Visit by a Society (to be arranged)
6 June - Members’ Meeting: European Country or links to.
21 June - Members’ Meeting: Postal Stationery any Country.
ZOOM MEETINGS
2023
Tues. 12 th September 7.30 - 9pm Chris Oliver - "A philatelic ramble around Purbeck",
Tues. 10th October 7.30 - 9pm. Jim Wigmore –“Aphrodite’s Island” & Cyprus Airmails”
Tues. 14th November 7.30 - 9pm. John Davies - "The 1890 Penny Postage Jubilee" Tues.
12 th December 7.30 - 9pm. Richard Wheatley – “Egyptian Hotel Post Offices” + Members displays
2024
Tues. 13th February 7.30 – 8.30pm. Gerald Marriner - "The Katanga Crisis 1960-63"
Tues. 12 th March 7.30 – 8.30pm. Malcolm Coe - "Suakin Sudan – the early postal history"
Tues. 9 th April 7.30 – 8.30pm. Members displays
Tues. 14th May 7.30 – 8.30pm. Nigel Gooch - "The Life and Times of Ahmad, Shah of Persia, 1909-1925"
Tues. 11 th June 7.30 – 8.30pm. To be arranged.
PROGRAMME
Thereafter we will meet on the third Friday and first Thursday of each month which programme will be supplemented with a series of additional Zoom meetings.
Friday 16 September: "My Favourite Country"
Thursday 6 October: "Stamp designers I Like"
Friday 21 October: "Cinderella stamps and forgeries"
Thursday 3 November:
GUEST SPEAKER
Derek Weston
"Poster Stamps and Colman's Mustard"
Friday 18 November: "Material related to the letters 'X', 'Y' and 'Z'
Thursday 1 November: Christmas Social Meeting, with displays
Friday 16 December MEETING CANCELLED
2023
Thursday 5 January: "Postcards and Christmas cards"
Friday 20 January: "Hobbies on stamps / covers"
Thursday 2 February:
GUEST SPEAKER
Michael Furfie:
"Stamps and Postal History of Nepal"
Friday 15 February: The President's Display
Thursday 2 March: The AGM and the annual competitions
Friday 17 March: Joint auction
Thursday 6 April: Brian Sole - "British Greetings Telegrams"
Friday 21 April:
"Games People Play"
Members and Guests
Thursday 4 May:
GUEST SPEAKER: RON BROWN "German Occupation of the Channel Islands"
Friday 19 May:
Members Meeting:
"Exhibitions"
Thursday 1 June:
Members Meeting
"Anniversaries"
Friday 16 June:
GUEST SPEAKER
PETER WHITE
"Monaco"
"ZOOM" MEETINGS
2022
Tuesday 8 November: 7:30 to 9pm
Monday 12 December: 7:30 to 9 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: GRAHAM WINTERS FRPSL
2023
Tuesday 17 January: 7:30 to 9pm
An invitation for all members to display
Tues. 14 February 7.30 - 9pm. Keith Burton - "Viaducts" [mainly postcards]
Tues. 14 March 7.30 - 9pm. Items of interest to members
Tues. 11 April 7.30 - 9pm Maurice Buxton - "Decimalisation & the Post Office",
Tues. 9 May 7.30 - 9pm. Items of interest to members
Tues. 13 June 7.30 - 9pm. Phillip Longbottom - "Mail between the Netherlands and GB"
THE STAMP MARKET AT MARIGNY
A cause for celebration!
The famous Parisian stamp market under the chestnut trees at Marigny is now open again. Slightly smaller than before Covid - but still a legendary meeting place for philatelists.