October 21st A visit by the Bedford society
Ian Baily was first to display showing stamps of Mozambique starting with the first overprints from Portugal, Our Chairman commented on this being the first showing of this country to Leighton Buzzard.
Alistair Kinnon showed stamps from Singapore issued on a yearly basis featuring the Chinese New Year. Our members amused themselves by trying to discover which symbol they were born under.
Nick Guy . gave an in-depth display of Imperial Airways material, focusing on routes within Africa
Julie Barnard concluded with postage stamps that she had collected to prove to her husband that stamps were “More than just a little piece of paper” In fact one issue was made from wood. Others included 3D stamps, Illuminous stamps, Stamps with rock particles in the design and even some stamps which included fragments of HMS Victory. There were many others too numerous to mention but a fascinating collection which served to convince Mr Barnard that he was wrong in his assumption.
June 17th. Visit From the Amersham Society
Edmund Hall and Nigel Perrins came to represent the Amersham Society for their return Inter-club visit, Nigel displayed first showing material connected to the Scouts Christmas Post, He told of how this service run by scouts delivered cards for their Local towns and villages and of the large amounts of money raised for the organisation with permission from Royal Mail.
Edmund showed Items from his collection which was mainly connected to conflicts over the last century including the Irish troubles and the second world war which interestingly showed divisions of the German army made up by sympathisers from countries either not connected to the war and countries that were fighting on the side of the allies all superbly written up with many items of interest.
March 8th Peter Pugh Another Bloody Railway part 2
This time Peter showed items associated with the far East, Peter was assisted by his wife rosemary and pictures of his visit can be viewed in the “Gallery”.
May 20th
Colin Sharp from the Milton Keynes Philatelic Society came to show stamps covers and a table full of ephemera connected to the Lighthouse organisation of Great Britain, Although there were a few covers from other countries.
Pictured, Colin showing the second half of his display and a fine cover that he managed to find at a cost of a few pennies from a car boot sale.
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