Our network of local branches and clubs hold regular meetings that anyone can visit for advice, a chance to chat, or to swap cards with fellow collectors. Many run auctions too.
This section is the landing page for all of these. More than that, though, it also pays tribute to many that are sadly no longer active - including independent clubs, the earliest of which was formed in Dublin in 1933 - hence our picture!
You may find it strange then,that until the 1960s the Cartophilic Society had no Branches; more than that, they actually refused to even consider them, turning one hopeful applicant from Bournemouth down not just once, but twice.
Perhaps this would always have been the case, but in the mid nineteen-sixties, there was a major change, with the merging of the Cartophilic Society and the Cameric Cigarette Card club which did have branches. That led to the decision to continue to support the Cameric Society branches, without renaming them to ours. Indeed, by the end of 1970, as stated in the November/December edition (Vol.3 No.36), we were still quite set on considering these as Cameric Branches, and, even more oddly, not a single new branch or club had come along to join them. There had been changes of personnel and name, but not at Midlands Branch, which remained as above - for the London Secretary was now Roy Wheeler, and the Yorkshire Secretary Stuart Armistead. However there had been big changes at Lancashire, which was now going by the name of North West Branch, under Secretary Norman Pendlebury.
It was not until 1974 that new branches arrived. These were West Country, whose Secretary was P. J Wood, and East Anglia, started by the former London Branch Secretary, F. H. Pitts, who had relocated to Norfolk. Then, in 1975, Humberside, and Reading & District were formed. Hants and Dorset, Merseyside, and the North East Branch came along in 1977, but we temporarily lost East Anglia, Mr. Pitts having died.
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