Convention archive

Here you will find how our Annual General Meeting grew to become a two day card fair.

We freely admit these are but bare bones, but they are at a point where we would really appreciate your help to start adding in material and memories. So if you know, or read any information that is not here, whether that is in vintage magazines, online, or anywhere else, please let us know – and if you have any archive material that you would be willing to scan for us. Many thanks in advance.

And let us all create an archive for future cartophilists to both enjoy, and be amazed at…

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2005

Friday 29th and Saturday 30th April - SCARBOROUGH

This year the event started earlier than normal, as the card collecting magazine “Card Times” had sponsored a golf tournament.

2004

Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th - EASTBOURNE

This year we were guests of Sussex Branch at a super location, right on the seafront, with our Society banner flapping merrily, and looking lovely in the sunshine, which we had indeed ordered speci

2003

Friday 25th and Saturday 26th April - READING

Reading had hosted before, in 1990. In fact this was our first return to a non-London based venue.

2002

Friday 26th and Saturday 27th April - STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

This was our biggest ever event with more than a million cards and over seventy dealers, including ones from Europe, North America and Canada.

2001

Friday 27th and Saturday 28th of April - YATE, BRISTOL

This year we were hosted by West Country Branch, who held their annual rallies here.

2000

Friday 28th and Saturday 29th April - WATFORD, MIDDX

The year of the Millennium saw us at Watford Leisure Centre. The event being held on the 29th April. This was the closest location to London at an affordable rate.

1999

Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th April - WINSFORD, CHESHIRE

1999 saw us in Winsford, being hosted by Timperley?

1998

Saturday 25th April - NOTTINGHAM

Our Sixtieth Annual General Meeting

1997

Saturday 26th April - SOUTHAMPTON

We had a hat trick of hosting branches this year, Winchester and Solent, Hants and Dorset, and Hants and Surrey, which meant there is no shortage of willing helpers.

1996

Saturday 27th April - LINCOLN

It is 1996, just two years after the founding of The Lincolnshire Cigarette Card Club and already they were co-hosting (along with the Humberside Branch) the Cartophilic Society Annual Convention.