PPM Jul 11 - Picture Postcard Monthly

Stockport (mid-week) Fair -
Last Tuesday of Month
Postcards, Stamps,
Cigarette Cards - Ephemera
and Postal History (17 dealers)
Masonic Guildhall - Wellington Road South
SK1 3XE
Next dates -
28th June, 26th July,
Details - Simon Collyer 07966 565151
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STAMP & POSTCARD FAIRS
Modern postcards as well as old ones are well
featured at each event
This month’s fairs:
Sunday 3rd July
WYMONDHAM, Central Hall
Sunday 31st July
LEIGH-ON-SEA, West Leigh Junior School
Next month’s fairs:
Saturday 6th August
WOODBRIDGE, Community Centre
when Sheridan sang it at
the London Pavilion at the
end of 1912, it caught on
with the public and later
became popular with soldiers
during the war. It
later featured in the 1948
film The Winslow Boy.
Sheridan appeared with all
the top stars of the time,
including Marie Lloyd and
Dan Leno, but his success
waned after 1916 and he
began to suffer from insecurity
and depression.
After bad reviews of a play
he’d written and put on at
All fairs 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Details: Ray How 01702-544632
The Glasgow Coliseum, he
finally snapped. The morning
after the show’s opening
night he was found in
Kelvingrove Park with a
bullet in his head and a
revolver by his side.
Contributors and advertisers
are advised that
the August 2011 edition
of PICTURE POSTCARD
MONTHLY will be published
on July 21st.
Deadline for copy is July
10th.
Which one postcard would
you choose to keep if an
entire collection had to be
disposed of? That was the
question SOUTH WALES
club members were asked
at their meeting last month.
As might be expected, there
were nostalgic and sentimental
cards featuring family
homes and childhood
memories. However, choices
also included cards of
the battle of St. Romano,
Malta fever and the Newport
disaster of 1909. Highlight
of the evening was an
account of one lady’s
search for a postcard of
Ffynonbedr, eventually
secured from an eminent,
now retired, South Wales
dealer for a price that was
just a fraction of what she
would have been prepared
to pay for it.
� Jack Murray won this
year’s David Ticehurst
Memorial Award for the
best article in the Football
Postcard Collectors Club
Journal during the last 12
months for his piece on
Scotland v. England postcards.
Latest issue of the
journal has a feature on
Middlesbrough FC, a further
round-up of World Cup
2010 cards - many of which
are illustrated - and a lot of
comment on auction prices.
Apart from three £100+
realisations on eBay
(including an amazing £620
for a photographic card of
action from the 1909 FA
Cup Final at Crystal Palace),
most eye-catching recently
was the £700 paid for 14
cards of Burnley players in
their 1914 cup-winning
team.
� Lead article in the latest
Gongoozler, magazine of
the Canal Card Collectors
Circle, is on flood damage
to the Huddersfield Narrow
Canal at Golcar after a torrential
storm in July 1904. A
selection of marvellous
postcard images is illustrated.
� Clubscene �
READING Card Club’s first meeting in May featured a
powerpoint presentation by local librarian Ann Smith,
who brought to life the three periods of ancient Egypt,
focusing on the virtues and shortcomings of some of
the pharaohs and queens who ruled Egypt. The evening
concluded with refreshments, buying and selling of
cards, a one-card competition on ‘artefacts’ and a raffle.
The other meeting that month had Alan Copeland display
some ‘Curiosities of the Chilterns’, a lively, dramatic
and entertaining presentation showing many odd
building wall plaques and signs. He also looked at rare
Victorian pillar boxes, village stocks, obelisks, road
signs, and many other items that generally go unnoticed
on frantic journeys. For good measure, Alan
added on a short film of Portmeirion in North Wales.
BRADFORD were entertained
by Dale Smith, who
is a busy local councillor.
His title, ‘No idea’, introduced
a talk that was based
on his reasons for collecting
- places he was familiar
with, family and social history,
and cards that had
personal appeal. Dale said
he collected by theme
rather than topographical
location, but he did display
some fascinating cards of
Bradford, Shipley, Menston
and Ilkley. He also featured
cards of personalities born
in Menston - Smith Wigglesworth
who founded the
Pentecostal Church, Eric
Knight, author of the Lassie
stories, and Yorkshire fast
bowler Bill Bowes.
Marion Turner took her
NORTH WALES audience
on a virtual trip around
Merionethshire from Portmeirion,
the Italianate village
famous as the setting
for the 1960s TV series The
Prisoner to Dolgellau, the
county town. She called in
at gold and slate mines,
rode on the railways and
joined in a street festival at
Barmouth.
� Postcard publishers
Bamforth are allocated
almost the entire edition of
the latest Welsh Lady magazine,
with their cards featured
on eight of the twelve
pages. Editor David Rye
stresses that the firm, better
known for seaside
comics, produced many
cards on the Welsh Lady
theme. Eighteen of them
are illustrated and captioned,
all in traditional
dress apart from a scantilyclad
beauty superimposed
on a view of the Menai
Bridge and the caption
Wales has everything.
� The Summer 2011 edition
of the Exhibition Study
Group Journal has a 12page
index of all the articles
that appeared in the first
100 issues - an invaluable
catalogue of information on
exhibition postcards and
ephemera.
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