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� Clubscene � Philip’s Norfolk tour Philip West was born and brought up in North Norfolk, so was well-placed to deliver an ‘A-K’ of towns and villages in the area to NORFOLK Postcard Club’s October meeting. He chose picture postcards of quality and rarity to illustrate his journey around the highways and byways, and talked at length and knowledgeably. Even the smallest settlement produced something of interest, be it a shop, brewery, railway, circus parade or golf. Change was a recurring theme in the presentation. Reading singalong Postcards of World War One were screened at READING’s early October session, when Paul Langton underlined the importance of postcards for maintaining the morale of troops at the Front and their loved ones back home. Postcards as propaganda tools were, of course, used by both sides in the conflict. Paul focuses on poignant messages, and showed how he’d researched the fate of some of the senders and recipients. On a more cheerful note, he led a sing-song of the chorus of Dolly Gray, a favourite of the troops that was featured on Bamforth song cards. Lorraine Maguire revealed something of the work and lives of a range of picture postcard artists at the WEST LONDON club recently. Mabel Lucie Attwell, Cynicus, Bairnsfather, Tarrant and Dudley Buxton were among those under the spotlight. The sugar-sweet Asti, outrageous Pedro and unfortunate Ellen Clapsaddle (stranded in Germany in 1914) added fascination, as did Lorraine’s concluding feature on the highly successful Queensland artist Anne Geddes, whose postcards are sold around the world. Deep in the heart of Dixie! SOUTH WALES Postcard Club held an audience participation evening in October when speaker Chris Wood, a Baptist minister, gave an enjoyable talk on the history of the American Civil War. He brought along several complete reproduction uniforms from both sides in the war, and several genuine artefacts were on display, along with powerpoint pictures. Chris also produced his guitar and the audience sang with gusto songs from the period - including Battle Hymn of the Republic and John Brown’s Body - with the words appearing on screen! Art class Masterpieces from Constable, Turner, Hals and Hogarth were featured by Sue Edwards at NORTHAMP- TONSHIRE Postcard Club in October. She highlighted how deliberate inaccuracies were often included in paintings to draw attention to the nuances and foibles of a particular artist. * Contact details for all postcard clubs can be found in Picture Postcard Annual 2010. Retiring Plymouth Postcard Club chairman Graham Brooks (right) receives a new Plymouth Argyle book from the club’s publicity officer Harley Lawer 40 Picture Postcard Monthly December 2009 December 2009 highlights Aberystwyth - Angela Davis with Victorian Christmas cards(7th) Aylsham - Christmas dinner(7th) Bradford - Christmas party(10th) Bristol - Christmas social, quiz and raffle(7th) Croydon - Christmas social(3rd) Dorset - Christmas fayre and entertainment(9th) Ellesmere Port & Chester - informal meeting(15th) Exeter - Christmas dinner Ferndown - three more of my favourite things(14th) and Christmas events(21st) Frinton & Walton - John Barter looks at the Festival of Britain plus Christmas party(8th) Huddersfield - Christmas party(9th) Lothian - Christmas social(11th) Maidstone - chairman’s evening(21st) Mendip - club fair(19th) Mid-Essex - Christmas social(17th) Norfolk - Rosemary and Peter Salt tell the story of Great Yarmouth(9th) North Wales - Gwyn & Christine Williams’ Christmas selection box(14th) Northamptonshire - competitions(8th) North-West Kent - joint social evening with Gravesend Stamp Club(11th) Nottingham - ‘Gordon Richards Trophy’ display competition(8th) Plymouth - Elaine Clifford, former Bluebell and Tiller Girl, recalls highlights of her career plus display of theatre programmes, posters and photos plus Christmas draw and buffet(9th) Potteries - Christmas quiz, seasonal refreshments and raffle(21st) Reading - AGM, picture quiz & Christmas party(10th) Red Rose - Christmas party(16th) Shropshire - Christmas ‘noggin & natter’(8th) Southampton - Christmas meal(14th) South Wales - Christmas dinner at the Village Hotel(10th) Strathclyde - steps towards Congress(14th) Surrey - Christmas social with raffle and fun competition(16th) Tayside - Christmas party(16th) Torbay - Christmas quiz night & bingo(10th) Wirral - Christmas buffet & wine plus quiz(3rd) PLYMOUTH Postcard Club have awarded Graham Brooks life membership in appreciation of his decade of service as chairman. The decision was approved at the club’s AGM, when Graham stepped down, citing a combination of age and health conditions. Vicechairman Ron Furzeland has taken over until the club finds a successor. It was also decided to suspend the club’s annual auction following two years of disappointing sales, and to publish the club newsletter bi-monthly in future. Negotiating Dartmoor EXETER welcomed Tony Burges, a blue badge Dartmoor guide, to their late October meeting, where he featured the National Park on their doorstep. He gave tips on visiting lesserknown parts of the moor without falling into bogs! Tony recounted various local legends topical to Hallowe’en to add to the atmosphere. David Walker from Wellington was guest dealer. Scene at Mid-Essex Postcard Club’s annual fair in October. The club’s meeting that month had Michael Cox talk on ‘Women at war’, accompanied by some truly remarkablememorabilia relating to the areas where they provided much-needed support. Michael also brought along his stock.
Channel Isles displays Some 23 members of the CHANNEL ISLANDS SPE- CIALISTS SOCIETY attended the postcard meeting held at the Royal Philatelic Society's headquarters in London in early October, when 18 varied displays were given. LL cards were shown by both John Hirst and Ron Osborne. Mark Bailey displayed Herm cards and photographs by the Grut family, photographic publishers of Guernsey. Dave Edwards showed postcards by the Guernsey photographer T. A. Bramley published between 1907 and 1927: these included island scenes and events. Steve Wells showed cards of Jersey, Chausey, Granville and Mont Saint Michel published by J. Puel of Granville. Anne Gough gave two displays of modern postcards, the first being of cards in the 'Naturally Guernsey' series, and some new publications of the Jersey Shell House. Her second display was of postcards by the publisher John Hinde. A number of members chose to display a theme. Richard Flemming showed Jersey's Corbiere Lighthouse; David Gurney the Jersey Sub-Post Offices; Gerald Marriner Jersey hotel cards and ephemera; Keith Raymond and Roger Harris, Jersey's railways; and both Roger Harris and Peter Saunders showed aviation, including cards of the Saint Malo to Jersey air race of 1912. Some of the railway and aviation postcards were particularly unusual, a number having recently appeared on the market and drawn from an album a dealer had been holding for 18 years. Great War memories BRISTOL’s audience was treated to audio-visual presentations by Graham Best, member of the Western Front Association, last month. His headline feature was on Edith Cavell, half of the illustrations for which were drawn from postcards. Nurse Cavell’s execution was a propaganda bonus for the Allies, and Graham showed a large selection of relevant postcards and newspaper pictures. Other presentations featured WW1 comic cards, the wounded, and nurses, the Avon Gorge, Marilyn Monroe, WW2 newspaper headlines and the Bristol blitz. All were accompanied by suitable music, songs and sound effects, making for a very entertaining evening. Passengers and coaches at Gorey Pier railway station, Jersey, on a postcard from the French publisher L. Bourry of Villedieu, Manche Considering that HUDDERS- FIELD’s October speaker David Brown introduced himself as primarily a stamp collector, his collection of local postcards amazed the audience. To top that, he also produced a range of Isle of Man cards and a selection from North Borneo! NORTH WALES enjoyed one of Lawrence Corrieri’s amazing talks in October, this time on the remote Sutherland area of Scotland. Lawrence has collected a huge number of postcards of buses of a region where the average service is two a day - one out and one back! The fact that the major part of one route is through a military firing range and is frequently out of bounds due to military activity added to the scarcity value of these buses en route to Cape Wrath! Gareth Burgess and Fiona Gebbie made the journey from Dunbar to Dundee to entertain the TAYSIDE club in October. Fiona displayed postcards of the East Lothian Coastal Trail from Cockburnspath to Prestonpans, with eyecatching scenes of Skateraw, Belhaven and Aberlady. For aviation enthusiasts, there was a card showing the first plane to land at North Berwick. On a more wide-ranging theme, Gareth exhibited a selection of cards from 60 different Scottish postcard publishers, ranging geographically from J.D. Rattar of Lerwick in the north to A.R. Edwards of Selkirk in the south. Gareth himself has a keen interest in the history and output of famous postcard publisher George Washington Wilson (GWW). Other highlights included photograaphic gems by Urquhart of Dingwall, Gammie of Aberdeenshire and Dunn of Brechin. Bygone Shrewsbury SHROPSHIRE club members were taken back in time to the pre-postcard era at their October meeting, viewing a large selection of early photographs of Shrewsbury, the county town. Martin Ryder did the honours, revealing some wonderful examples of shopfronts from the 1880s and 1890s. These were followed by further high-class material from the horse and cart days, with a wide range of subjects displayed, from early fire appliances, hansom cabs, steam wagons and railways to local flooding problems and public houses, all of which proved very much to the liking of those present. September at the COTSWOLD club featured a guided walk with club members Alan and Joan Tucker. Earlier this year, Joan made an in-depth study of Lower Street in Stroud, close to their home. She traced the history and development of their road and also of the properties on either side of the road. On a glorious late summer afternoon, she gently conducted the group along the road, explained its past and present, and showed many old postcards and photos. The afternoon was rounded off admirably with tea at the Tucker household! The previous month, Ken Goddard had talked on one of his favourite topics - railway postcards. He used a large number from his extensive collection to illustrate points he was making, and the audience was able to examine the cards at leisure. There’s mmore cclub news oon ppage 556 Gareth Thomas corrected our note last month when we said there wasn’t a postcard in sight at South Wales Postcard Club’s September session on Nelson. Apparently, the club presented speaker Roger Morgan with a set of postcards entitled Caricatures of Nelson’s Navy, designed by an artist who signed himself simply ‘Oggy’. One, shown above, was most appropriate to the subject of the talk. Hatless in Ilkley Tony Christy provided a cracking display at BRAD- FORD’s latest meeting, showing part of his extensive collection of Ilkley postcards. It was, however, far from the usual range of topographicals, with Tony coming up with several Bartholomew map cards of the town, a large array of comic cards and a lovely collection relating to Ilkley Moor’s famous hatless song. Most interesting was a selection of pull-out postcards which fully demonstrated the tourist aspect of the town. Spellbound at Wirral Bromborough dealer John Ryan had WIRRAL club members spellbound last month with a fascinating account of his research into the ‘Dingle’ series of postcards published by Wiliam George Bevan of Heswall. John has amassed a big collection of the cards of the photographer, whose postcard work was distinguished by its clarity and quality. Bevan had an eye for the picturesque scenes of the Wirral coastlines and the photogenic shots of Liverpool docks. He also included human interest in many postcards, with an emphasis on the prominence of children, dogs or horses in the foreground of photographs. Picture Postcard Monthly December 2009 41
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