Friday November 16th. Visit to Cambridge.
Three Leighton Members visited the Cambridge
Philatelic society and displayed Falkland
Islands, By Paul Peacock The Bristol channel
Ferry’s by John Spencer and Owls by Richard
Page.
Sunday 7th October
Five of our members went along to support the
MAPF display day at Buckden arranged by John
Spencer. A really social occasion.
June 27th
Members from Leighton Buzzard and Aylesbury
philatelic societies enjoy a day at the new
Postal Museum in London organised by our friend
Cyril Parsons.
21st March 2018 Don Davis
G B Postal history with a difference.
Our guest speaker gave a really comprehensive
history of our postal system ranging from
Pre-stamp covers and envelopes and the many
different combinations experienced during their
use to a study of modern forgeries. Some
forgeries were quite crude examples while others
needed an experts eye to reveal their attempt at
deception.
Every aspect of postal history was explored with
many unique examples on show including letters
from William Shakespeare pictured here.
June 20th - Loraine Maguire: The ships that
linked New Zealand , Australia and UK
Loraine gave another insight into the history
of Australia and New Zealand and its transport
system with Ships on this occasion. Lorain’s
history started in 1837 and the Peninsular and
Oriental shipping Co. latter known as P and O.
Shipping was mainly for cargo and mail; but
rapidly came to be used for passengers with
greatly reduced fares to get people to colonise
the relatively newly discovered country.
In the early 1900s new arrivals from the UK were
known as the £10.00 P.O.M. . Nearly all the
ships left from Tilbury Postcards of the ships
throughout the transitionary period of P and O
to Oriental Line back to P and O were shown. A
unique insight into the shipping of the time.
17th January 2018. A Visit from the St Albans
and Harpenden Philatelic Society.
John Swade was the first to display showing
some of his comprehensive collection of stamps
posters and other ephemera of the Columbian
Great Exhibition which ran from 1st May to 30th
October 1893.
After the break Peter Mellor gave a display of
postcards sent to doctors everywhere from
Pharmaceutical distributors dating from 1947
under the heading of Dear Doctor.
Our members were intrigued by the amount of work
that had been put into both displays and
congratulated both guests for producing such
fascinating material.
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