Coming Events
This is a list of all the events planned by the society over the next few months. They are listed in date order for convenience.
All events listed at held at the Pasterfield Centre, Horizon Drive, Cameron Park. (See home page for directions). For all our meetings, the doors open at 1.50pm, meetings commence at 2.00pm. Afternoon tea follows the meetings, bring a cup if you remember.
The 2021 Newcastle Stamp and Coin Expo has been postponed until Friday 27 May to Sunday 29 May 2022. The venue is the same, the Newcastle Showground Exhibition Centre, Brown Road, Broadmeadow, 150m from the Broadmeadow Railway Station. (See below for details). Closing date for entries is Monday 28 February 2022.
You can print these pages by holding down CTRL and striking the letter P. Ignore page 1 (this is mostly blank), print pages 2 and 3. Note – this works on most computers.
Since some of our members do not have a mobile phone and cannot use the QR code, we require pen and paper sign-in. (This is emailed to NSW Health if requested).
Thursday 10 February – monthly meeting, display by Jim MacDougall, History of Canada
Wednesday 16 February – social meeting, display by Roger Eggleton, Maldives
Thursday 24 February – society auction, members from 6.30pm, viewing 6.45pm, auction 7.15pm. We urge that all attending be double vaccinated.
Thursday 10 March – monthly meeting, display by Ron Davis, British Offshore Islands Part 2
Wednesday 16 March – social meeting, display by Ed Burnard, New Zealand Alternate Post Systems, Part 2
Thursday 14 April – Popular Choice Competition, 6 pages philatelic, topic starting with the letter D
Wednesday 20 April – social meeting, display by John Edwards, Australian Kangaroo Series, & Ron Davis, North Africa
Thursday 12 May – monthly meeting, displayer tba
Wednesday 18 May – social meeting, display by George Kuszelyk, Irish Christmas stamps, & Peter Chalker, Cigarette Cards
Thursday 26 May – set up day for Newcastle Stamp and Coin Expo
Friday 27 May to Sunday 29 May – Newcastle Stamp and Coin Expo
Thursday 9 June – monthly meeting, displayer tba
Wednesday 15 June – social meeting, display by Ross Zimmerman, Frank Hurley photographs, and Australian Antarctic and other territories, Greg Wells, Australian Territories
Thursday 14 July – monthly meeting, display by Viv Manwaring, Australian Enstamped Envelopes 1900-1937
Wednesday 20 July – social meeting, display by Don Rutherford, Sweden: King Facing Right, plus 20 pages tba
Thursday 4 August – monthly meeting, AGM and Awards Activity
Wednesday 17 August – social meeting, display by Barry Parker, Australia and Pacific, plus 20 pages tba
Thursday 8 September – monthly meeting, display by Greg Laidler and others, the 75th anniversary of the issue of the Newcastle Sesquicentenary stamps in 1947. Bring your memorabilia.
Wednesday 22 September – social meeting, display by Don Catterall, postcards
Thursday 13 October – monthly meeting
Wednesday 17 October – social meeting, display by Tony Walker, tba
Thursday 10 November – monthly meeting
Wednesday 22 November – social meeting, display by Russell Goddard, tba
Thursday 8 December – monthly meeting
No social meeting in December