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The "Bulletin" is the official journal of the East Midlands & East Anglia Philatelic Federation and it is published at least three times per year, being made available to all members of societies affiliated to the Federation. The first issue was published in January 1951 soon after the formation of the Federation and (apart from one short break) it has been produced continually since that date. The Bulletin contains news of Federation affairs together with reports of the activities of affiliated societies, article of general interest to philatelists and stamp collectors alike, a list of all societies programmes for the current season, members wants lists etc. etc. |
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Dates February, June, October & up date after A.G.M. If I receive a
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Will Secretaries please keep me updated with all changes, Secretary
change, Venue change, ect East
Midlands & East Anglia Philatelic Federation
Fenland S.C. have a Stamp Fair at the Trinity
Methodist Church Hall Wisbech PE13-1BL
10am-4pm, Trinity is on Church Terrace very close to the church of St. Peter
and St. Paul, with a car park opposite. and
will be held at At
this event will be a one off competition sponsored by Royal Mail. This
competition will be in ADDITION TO THE FEDERATION COMPETITIONS. The
rules of this competition are: Each entry shall consist of 16 sheets. Only
one entry shall be eligible from each society. The
entry shall be THEMATIC in nature. Entries
will be required at the same time as those entering federation competitions,
details of this will be sent to you at a later date.
Hon. Web
Master As
I now have Email address for all but one member club, both the Hon Secretary
& Web Master will use this means to contact member club secretary’s
in the future. Convention 2011 — Wisbech P.S. To be
confirmed Convention 2012- No offer Yet Convention 2013- Kings Election
of Officers & Committee 2009/10 President
Allan Stringer Vice
President Gilbert Smith Hon.
Secretary – Terry Wagg Hon
Treasurer - Susan Cattermole Hon.
Youth Officer - Susan Cattermole Hon.
Comp Secretary - Bill Quirk Hon.
Web Master - Brian Needs. Committee
Members 1.
David Belton 2. David Leonard 3. Ray Revell 4.
John Pearce 5. Next
A.G.M on A display in morning at followed by Committee Meetings 2010 13 March at 10-30 am 11 September at 10-30am At the Arbury Centre, Societies Reports Report from the Huntingdonshire Philatelic Society On Mike Bister was the
guest speaker to the society when he displayed “French Colonies, At our meeting on Members were asked to display anything to accompany mince
pies.
One of our own members Len Rowe displayed “More of
Rowe's Rubbish”. The Rubbish in question being very colourful and
artistically designed Poster Stamps. Hinckley & District Philatelic Society Reports AUCTION followed by a DISPLAY by JOAN SHELTON 34 members were in attendance with 8 apologies for absence. The first half of the evening consisted of an auction with Roger Simmons as auctioneer, very ably assisted by Graham Hunt. Bidding for over 40 items was brisk and Roger and Graham managed to keep things moving. Very few items were left unsold. After the coffee break,
provided by Pat Rose, it was the turn of Joan Shelton to show the first part
of her collection on the Development of Writing and Languages. She started
off by stating that she had in fact shown some of this in January 2000 but
had since added a lot of material. During her talk she moved from the very
earliest forms of writing which had been found on clay tablets in Joan also showed other forms of communication such as braille, sign language for the hard of hearing, and Esperanto - a form of language that was devised by Dr. Zamenhof in the late 1 880s. His aim was
to create an easy and flexible universal language to foster peace and
international understanding. There are thought to be about 2 million
Esperanto speakers throughout the world, most notably in Joan finished her talk with a suggestion that, in many respects, we seem to have, come full circle. She explained this with a sheet showing how we use signs today to convey messages - such as road signs, acronyms and logos of organisations and companies which are instantly recognisable. Bob Storer gave a vote of thanks before members were invited to view the display. Our President stood in for David Baxendale as he was away on business. During a previous visit Bill had chatted about thematic collecting to the three boys present. These youngsters were caught up in another school activity and sent their apologies via Celia Crawford, the librarian, for missing this meeting. David had followed up the thematic angle with a project for the juniors which involved making up a page, or pages, with stamps etcetera illustrating their theme. Prizes are on offer, and certificates for the best three. These should be on show by the Christmas party. Only three young people attended this most recent meeting, none were members but had come “to see what it was like”. Bill continued the thematic line by showing them some of his “Fairy Tales” - Snow White, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, etc., - but when he got onto the Frankenstein and witches theme he lit the blue touch paper and the youngsters became quite animated. They had a good scout through the box of stamps that David had left, searching for material for their themes, which were Ashley Evans - football, Ami Brown - animals, Eleanor Rigby - flowers. Each of them expressed a wish to join the society and the girls intend to bring a friend to the next meeting. They each departed with a second hand stamp album to start them off. We hope that the group start to regain the membership levels that existed under the leadership of the late Ron Webster. CONFEDERATE STATES OF A wonderful evening was
experienced by all those attending this facinating display of Confederate
States of 1e explained how a population of 30 million Americans saw 600,000 5%) of population killed during the conflict. The first half consisted of 124 sheets starting with covers bearing the normally issued American stamps, including the newly formed Confederation. It quickly became evident that the new Confederation had to produce its own stamps and John Ragan was appointed the first Post Master of the newly formed Confederation and one of his first duties was to produce a new stamp. Obviously this takes time so during the interim period post masters of the Confederate States had to make do with their own “Paid” handstamps. For some it was simply a case of writing ‘Paid” in manuscript on the envelope and John produced some rare covers showing same. Some post masters produced their own “Paid” handstamps, commonly called “Post Masters Provisionals”. John explained that these are very rare as few covers survived, with some of the 11 states only having one or two surviving examples. He also showed examples of “Patriotic” covers produced and when paper became scarce, how some improvised wallpaper to produce envelopes (similar to those produced by Channel Islanders during WWII - Richard Archivist). John also showed examples of the October 1861 “General Issue” stamps, with the Sc stamp used on mail for delivery up to 500 miles and the lOc stamp used on mail to be delivered over 500 miles. These stamps were produced by De La Rue. The original stamps were, apparently, confiscated by the Unionist blockade and so De La Rue smuggled the printing plates into the Confederate states. Apparently De La Rue are still awaiting payment !!!! These stamps were also used as small change. Following the customary interval, John continued with a 94 sheet display f Confederate stamps, including rare plate proofs. Further handmade envelopes and “turned” envelopes were also shown. Soldiers mails. Including “Free”
franking were displayed that included soldiers’ “Patriotic
envelop including examples of Patriotic envelopes designed for use by the
Unionist soldiers being used by Confederate soldiers. John explained that
although the southern states formed the Confederation, the Bob Storer gave the vote of thanks. Richard Fiemming - Archivist. “OTHER COLLECTION” by RODNEY GUDGER 29 members present with 9 apologies for absence. On the 10 November we had the pleasure of one of our distant members, Rodney Gudger, giving us an eclectic talk entitled “My Other Collection”, although I would say “Collections” as Rodney explained about his collecting habits. He told how he builds his collections and then, once completed, they are sold with the proceeds going to the next collecting project. For the first two frames
Rodney showed material relating to the Post Office Training School, which
started in 1920. Material included stamps overprinted with bars or “ To show his diversity of
collecting philatelic material, on frames 5 and 6 Rodney showed a near
complete 1 d red plated collection. What made this more interesting is that
each stamp had been cancelled with a range of Frames 7 and 8 were based on
“Cinderella” material covering “postage stamps of The second half consisted of ‘stamps’ produced for collecting through the Children’s Newspaper, including replicas of the famous railway posters produced during the 1930s. Rodney explained how children could collect these ‘stamps’ by purchasing the Children’s Newspaper. Next Rodney showed material produced by the Polish stamp engraver Slania Czeslaw, followed by ‘stamps’ produced for Puffin Island, an island situated in the Thames estuary. These ‘stamps’ are produced to finance conservation work on the island. Those who have been members of the society for many years may remember Jon Baker. Jon was not too pleased with the introduction of the 2-tier postal system (1st and 2nd class mail) in 1968 and produced a range of protest covers based on the famous Mulready-type cover. Roger showed several of the ‘Mulready’s’ produced by Jon. After showing a range of self adhesive
stamps, including the 1964 Bob Storer gave the vote of thanks at the end of what had been a very entertaining and varied evening. Richard Flemming, Archivist. There were 42 members present with 11 visitors/guests and 8 apologies for absence. In the absence of chairman Bob Storer (away on holiday) Richard Flemming opened the evening by welcoming all who were present. It was great to have Barbara Webster and grandson Zac with us. Richard presented Barbara with a cyclamen. Richard then introduced Giles du Boulay, Chairman of the German and Colonies Philatelic Society who was with us to present an award to Bill Shepherd. The award is The Michael Elliot (1933-98) Memorial Trophy and is presented for exceptional contribution to philatelic development promoting Friendship through Philately’. Bill, only the third recipient, was pleased to accept the award. An enthusiastic round of applause followed. It was then time for refreshments, judging the competition entries and trying to do the quiz, which this year was set by Richard Flemming, with help from his wife Jill. Competition Winners :- Single Sheet Competition 1st St Terry Tompkins - ‘Lest We Forget’ 2nd = Richard Flemming - ‘I love Wombats’ 2nd = Roy Butler - ‘Ding Dong Merrily on High’ Cinderella Competition 1st Paul Clarke - ‘The Christmas Stamps’ 2nd Richard Flemming - ‘Corbiere Lighthouses’ 3rd Ian Varey - ‘Nativity Advent Calendar’ Winners of the raffle were: 1st Giles du Boulay ‘After Eights’ 2nd Chris Hailstone Tin of ‘Celebrations’ 3rd Cassandra
Mckay Tin of ‘ 4th John Watts £5 voucher donated by ‘Wilkinson’ 5th Mick Mansfield Tin of biscuits 6th Rebecca Mansfield £10 voucher donated by ‘Tesco’ 7th Brian Applebee Model Fire Engines 8th Deborah Moussous ‘After Eights’ 9TH Mick Rose Cake. (The recipients were able to select their prize from the display of gifts) The Quiz winner was Chris Hailstone - who will be required to set the questions for the Christmas Party in 2010. At the end of the evening Alan Griffin did a mini auction of the refreshments which had not been used - this raised £21.80 for society funds. Many thanks to all who contributed to make the evening enjoyable. 50 YEARS OF THE POSTCODE The postcode as we know it
today and which is now a vital part of each address (especially with the
advent of satnav!!), was first introduced 50 years ago in Various adaptations were
introduced but it was not until 1917 that the idea was extended in order to
help the women who had been recruited to deliver the post in It was the advent of sorting
mail by machine that created the need for a more sophisticated system. In
1959 eight new sorting machines were installed in The scheme was announced to
the people of But the Croydon was the second place
to be allocated postcodes. Then every address in the With increased technology more and more sophisticated methods for sorting mail are being introduced all the time. This information was taken from an article by Richard West in the British Philatelic Bulletin. The First Railway Whistle (I came across an old newspaper cutting — neither newspaper nor date of issue known but it may be of some interest ‘Carry On’, the This dates from the time of the old Leicester and Swannington Railway — the first railway in these parts, and the first component of what later became the Midland Railway system. It was on Mr Bagster, the manager of the company, was disturbed. He went to George Stephenson, who built the line and lived nearby, and asked: ‘What about it?’ George thought it had nothing to do with him; people should keep out of the way of his trains. ‘Isn’t it possible,’ asked Mr Bagster, ‘to have a whistle fitted on the engine through which steam can blow?’ ‘Good idea’ said George. ‘Go and get one made.’ So Mr Bagster went to a
musical instrument maker in So the first railway whistle was born. Thanks to Rev. Tom White for the article. Up Dated |