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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