What's New...

January 2012 - A warm welcome to our new members:

• 2080 Norman Sansom of Sussex
• 2081 Robert Wightman of Switzerland
• 2082 John Marston of Yorks
• 2083 Ken Brown of Essex
• 2084 David Lucas of Leics

Rejoined 425 John Sussex of Yorks

Congratulations to our two new Life Members 1453 Miss P C Burger and 1466 T B Owen, who have been with the Society for thirty years.

October 2011 - New Publication:

A new book Letter Forewarding Agents of Great Britain handling Channel Islands letters 1673-1855 by our President David Gurney FRPSL, has just been published by the Stuart Rossiter Trust. The book is the product of twenty years of research into the Agents, usually merchants or shipowners in the Channel Islands, London or some of the south coast ports, who handled letters, mainly commercial and some personal, to and from the islands before the establishment of a regular packet service with the Channel Islands in 1794, and for some time after this. Such letters were usually, but not always, marked or endorsed with the agent's name either in the form of a manuscript endorsement or by means of a handstamp. Additional charges to be recovered were often added.

One hundred and forty Agents are included in this 170 page book. There is an alphabetical listing showing the name of each agent recorded and many illustrations of actual letters are shown, along with examples of endorsements and other aspects.

For more details of the book, which costs just £9.50, and to order it, click on www.rossitertrust.com

November 2011 - New Competition Day Award:

At the next Competition Day, February 11th 2012, for the first time members present will,  at the end of the judging, choose a "best in show entry". The winner will be awarded free membership for the following year.

February 2012 - New Trophy:

The Society has a new Social Philately Cup which has been kindly donated by Ron Brown.