Current status: Inactive
The Birmingham Branch of the Cameric Cigarette Card Club first appears in a small section entitled CLUBS in the August 1935 edition of "Cigarette Card News” (Vol.2, No.23) where it states:
- We [The Cameric Club] have been requested by the organisers of proposed clubs in the Birmingham and Westbourne Park districts to place them in touch with those likely to be interested. On hearing from any of our readers, we shall be pleased to forward their names to the Hon. Secretaries of the proposed organisations, and we shall also be glad to extend the same facilities to organisers of clubs in other districts, if any such care to communicate with the Editor.
We further propose to devote some space monthly to "Club Notes and News," and trust to hear regularly from club secretaries in this connection.”
I next pick them up in March 1939 when the “Cigarette Card News” magazine (Vol.6, No.66) states within their “Around the Clubs” section that
- THE CAMERIC CIGARETTE CARD CLUB. -
Branch meetings are now being held at different centres throughout the country. Members wishing to attend these meetings should get in touch with the respective Branch Secretaries for details of date and place of meeting.
Birmingham, by way of alphabetical order, was listed first. (The others were Bournemouth and Hastings). The Branch Secretary for Birmingham was given as L. Jobey, 59 Castleford Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham 11. The article concluded with “Members not residing in any of the above areas and wishing to hold their own branch meetings should apply to the Secretary [of the Cameric, A.E. Cherry] for details. Applications can only be considered from members living in towns.”