I am a member of the Scarborough Philatelic Society, have been since I moved to Scarborough in 1990.  It was not long before I was elected to serve on the committee.  I have been chairman for about 5 years, vice chairman at least two more and am now the secretary. And have been since  Jan 2000.

     The club started in 1938, the year before I was born!.  It went from strength to strength.  But like most stamp clubs the membership tends to be mainly people over 50.

I also edit and publish the monthly  newsletter.  A  sample one is scanned  on the  following page.

My history of stamp club memberships.

    This  is the order that I joined the various clubs.

1) Newlands Road Philatelic Society  (Founder)

2) The Skinners’ School PS

3) Tunbridge Wells PS

4) World Association of Young Stamp Collectors (disbanded)

5) Medway Towns PS

6) Edlington School PS (Teacher/ founder)

7) Weir Hall School PS (Teacher/ founder)

8) Bicester School PS (Teacher/ Founder)

9) Boston Grammar School PS  (Teacher/ Founder)

10) Mablethorpe & District PS

11) Claremont Fan Court School PS ( Teacher/founder)

12) Leatherhead PS

13) Redhill & Reigate PS

14) Scarborough PS

15) Burma Study Circle (International)

16) Machin Collectors Club (National)

17) GB Overprints Society  (National)

18) Tibet & Nepal Philatelic Society (international)

I am at present a member of the last FIVE clubs.

I am also a member of  and help run, two Yahoo clubs on the internet.

The Scarborough PS every year holds annual competitions in several classes.  I usually find favour in one or two and often win  at least one of the trophies.   The Society is a member of the YPA  (Yorkshire Philatelic Association, in which most societies in the whole  of YORKSHIRE are members), at the AGM the  societies compete against each other.  In 2004 My entry, “The ½p Machin” won the National class (UK  stamps) and came second in the overall competition, being beaten by one point only.  In addition I came  second in another other class, the Commonwealth Class  with my collection of “Irish Free State”, and 4th in the “Cinderella Class” with my collection of “Wonderland”  These  entries  can be seen in my Webshots photo albums.

 

 Philatelic Societies

My past stamping grounds

Email:   Chris

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