Lanarkshire Philatelic Society

"Members' Night"

"8 sheets or 50p"

There were wonderful displays to view at the Lanarkshire Philatelic Society meeting on Friday (6^th April). This was "8 sheets or 50p" night and most members chose to display rather than pay the fine!

The evening was set off by Alex Magowan – Historic postcards of Hamilton – and of various ‘Hamiltons’ in the USA

& followed by

David Brown – remembering 1936 – with postcards, stamps of 3 Kings; George V, Edward VIII, George VI;

Robin Wishart – Variety of errors on stamps – colours/ perforations/ misplacement;

Alan Rushworth – Clyde Steamers; - Caledonian Steam Packet, Glasgow and Sou’western, MacBraynes;

Alan Wishart – Covers depicting miscellaneous events of World War 2;

Raymond Baldock – "Peace Race" – 1948 Warsaw to Prague – and  displays through the years to 1957;

Elsie Miller – stamp issues of 1970 commemorating the Centenary of the Death of Charles Dickens;

Albert Tong – a show of GB stamp issues considered to be the "worst issues"!;

Terry Woods – A display of Registered Mail from post offices in Lanarkshire;

Sheila Sinclair – Postcards illustrating the history of The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas;

Alex Grimson – a display of signed postcards showing actors in ‘Corrie’ through the years

&

Bob Bradford – Provisional Postage Due stamps of the Hardčany period, Czechoslovakia.

Following tea, the evening continued with George Jamieson – Netherlands - Children’s Welfare stamp issues from 1924 – 1986

followed by

Duncan McIntyre was in the Wild West – with postcards and posters of John Wayne;

Bill Wilkie – thinking of Christmas with his display of Christmas Seals from Denmark;

Chris Moffat – remembering difficulties of posting items from Malawi during the Postal Strike of 1971;

Ken Liddell – a history of Barony Castle in Eddlestone – originally Darnhall House – now Barony Hotel;

Mike Cleary – Stamps and miniature sheets showing the Ebola Virus and Zika Virus – very colourful!;

Graham U’ren – miniature sheets of Flightless Birds – and stamps of the Kagu bird of New Caledonia;

Ellen Currie – historic postcards of Iona – including one signed by Lord George MacLeod;

Margaret Lyth – colourful stamps and miniature sheets showing Song Birds of the garden;

Derek Wiltshire – Stamp issues for Sarawak – a state of Malaysia – through the years;

Walter Tytherleigh – Early German postcards – particularly agriculture

and finally

Andy Napier – Fiji – Military Covers sent – with difficulty – during World War 2.

The Sponsor, David Haig, thanked members for giving such a diverse range of displays.

This meeting concludes the Session of 2017-2018. 

We shall resume on Friday, 7^th September, 2018 in the Caledonian Bowling Club, Motherwell Road, Hamilton at 7:30pm. 

We will welcome anyone who has an interest in stamps, postal history or postcards.