Lanarkshire Philatelic Society

 

Calendar of Events for 2023/2024

 

Our meeting place is 

Hamilton Caledonian Bowling Club, Motherwell Road, Hamilton ML3 7BL

(unless marked otherwise)

 

(Note access is from the large roundabout as you enter Hamilton from the M74/Motherwell)

 

 

Anyone with an interest in Stamps, Postcards or Postal History is always made very welcome.

 

Correct at 8 August 2023. 

Other dates/events/society visits may be added at a later date.

 

**We're back to evening meetings, 7.30pm start, commencing with the Bourse on 1st March**

 

2023


 

Meeting Start Time

1 September

 

"President's Evening"

Mr. Robert Forrest

 

7.30pm

Report

15 September

 

"Gibraltar"

Mr. Walter Simpson

&

"Fiji, The King George VI Definitives"

Mr. Andy Napier

 

 7.30pm

Report

29 September

 

"Steamers"

Mr. Alan Rushworth

 

 7.30pm

Report

7 October

 

South West Congress, Prestwick Community Centre, Prestwick

 

10.00am to 4.00pm 

13 October

 

Society Visit by Ayr Philatelic Society

 

1.30pm

Report

 

21 October

(One Day Only)

 

SCOTEX

The Canmore Suite, The Carnegie Conference Centre, Fife College, Dunfermline KY11 8DY

10.00am to 4.30pm

 

27 October

 

"Samoa; Kingdom, Colony to Independence again"

Mr. Alex Walker; President ASPS

 

1.30pm

Report

10 November

 

"Exploring Environmental Themes"

Ms. Paula Cleary

 

1.30pm

Report

24 November

 

"Ireland; Post Independence

Mrs Jean Osborne

 

1.30pm

Report

 

8 December

 

"Annual Auction"

1.30pm

15 December

 

"Members' Evening"....

"Christmas"

 

1.30pm

Report

 

2024

 

Happy New Year!


5 January

 

The Committee "Entertain"!

 

1.30pm

Report

19 January

 

"Gold Coast, Pre-Independence"

Mr. Robert Watt

 

1.30pm

Report

2 February

 

Members' Displays......

"Flora & Fauna"

 

1.30pm

Report

3 February

 

LPS Annual Fair

 

St. John’s Church Hall, 14 Duke Street, Hamilton ML3 7DT

 

10.00am to 4.00pm

10 February

LPS Committee Meeting

 

10.00am

 

16 February

 

"Maps"

Mrs. Lyn Robinson

 

1.30pm

Report

1 March

 

"Members' Bring & Buy Event/Bourse"

 

7.30pm

 

March 14

 

LPS visits Dundee & District Philatelic Society

Report

15 March

 

"Railway Themes"

Mr. Frank Beattie

 

7.30pm

Report

29/30/31 March

 & 1 April

EASTER WEEKEND

5 April

 

Members' Night......

"One board or One Pound"

 

7.30pm

Report

12 & 13 April

 

ASPS Congress, Dewars Centre, Perth

Aberdeen Philatelic Society are this years hosts. 

 

19 April

 

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (Members Only)

Park Church Hall, Uddingston

 

7.30pm