Current status: Inactive
Considering I have no other record of this I have found quite a large write up about it in the Card Times magazine for October 1997. It does not seem to be connected with any of the others either. So anyone who remembers it, and can shed a little light, please do.
The article reads :
- MEANWHILE the Birmingham Card Club are holding their second fair of the year at the Shirley Institute, The first one in March attracted 25 dealers and more than 200 visitors.
Club chairman Peter Lyndon explains "Our policy is to try and attract dealers not normally seen in the area, and we have achieved this again with six of the ten cigarette card dealers booked in being new to the club.
The club caters for postcard and phone card collectors as well as cigarette and trade cards, and are keen to attract new members.
Meetings are usually held at St Leonard`s Church Hall in Marston Green with speakers such as well known dealer and fair organiser David Hunter who is talking on military cards at their Armistice Day meet on November 11.
Further details of the fair can be obtained from Peter
Now this raises a few interesting questions, Peter Lyndon being unknown to me, and David Hunter being called only a dealer and fair organiser, with not a mention of our Nottingham and East Midlands Branch, which we believe he founded in the 1990s.
I have now been sent an advertisement for a later fair, also at the Shirley Institute.
This appeared in the October 1998 edition of Card Times Magazine, and provides the full address plus the opening times.
Having fifty tables proves that it was quite a substantial fair to have disappeared from the memory so quickly.
So if you remember going there, or anything else about this club please let us know.