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PHILATELY IN ESSEX 2019 “The Blue Book” Members' Handbook of the Association of Essex Philatelic Societies (2019 Eighth Edition) (Incorporating Amendments to 1 December 2018) Volume 2 Essex Past 2 Philately In Essex 2019 Editor: L.C. Stanway FRPSL. Published by Association of Essex Philatelic Societies, 25 Clay Hill Road, Basildon, Essex, SS16 5DD, Great Britain. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. First Edition 1986 ISBN 978-0-9511700-0-7 For a full publication list, please refer to Volume 1. © AEPS 1986-2019 Philately In Essex 2019 3 PHILATELY IN ESSEX THE HANDBOOK OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX PHILATELIC SOCIETIES PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION, VOLUME 2 When Philately in Essex was first published in 1985, CHANGES IN THIS EDITION we sought to produce a single reference volume, but this subsequently became unwieldy as we found more The handbook is published in three volumes. Volume about the Association’s past. The move to a digital 1, republished annually, contains all current format allowed and encouraged us to be more flexible information regarding the Association and its in our approach. We therefore extracted the historical members societies. Volume 2, republished when information into separate volumes which can be appropriate, contains historical reference data updated less frequently, when sufficient new regarding the Association and its member societies. information is available to justify a new edition. As this Volume 3 is the Catalogue of Philatelic Souvenirs. year is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of All the chapters in this volume have been reviewed the Association, it was felt that all three volumes and updated where new information is available. should be brought up-to-date. Please only print individual pages that you require. It is not necessary to print the whole document. NOTICE We hope that readers will find the new format of interest and useful. If you have any suggestions as to GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS how it can be further improved, we would be pleased to hear from you. Members are advised that the Association has the right to maintain lists of members’ and delegates’ Len Stanway. names, addresses and telephone numbers for the December 2018. purposes of AEPS communications only. Such lists are not divulged to third parties. Contact details are given in this handbook where the person concerned has given consent to do so. Members wishing any data to be included or omitted from the Handbook should contact the Editor. Event details are published in the Combined Programme and used in AEPS publicity in good faith on the basis of information provided in the public domain by member societies. Speakers who wish no publicity must ask the societies not to include details in their published programmes. CONTENTS The AEPS's past: 5. Roll of Competition Winners 38 1. History of Philately in Essex 4 Roll of Honour Book 45 2. Histories of the Essex Societies 13 6. Roll of StampEssex Host Societies 46 3. Roll of AEPS Officers, etc. 27 7. AEPS Postal Auction Rules 48 4. Recognition of Special Service 34 1. Roll of Honorary and Life Members 34 Index 49 2. National awards to AEPS Members 34 Notes 51 3. Participants in 1972 RPSL Display 35 4. Long Service Roll 35 4 Philately In Essex 2019 CHAPTER ONE THE HISTORY OF PHILATELY IN ESSEX 1910 1935 The second Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in Many societies today rely on their exchange packet for April was attended by Mr. D.B. Armstrong on behalf of a degree of financial security, but, before 1939, there the newly-formed South Essex Philatelic Society. This were a number of large independent exchange circuits Walthamstow society also sometimes met at Broad to which societies were affiliated. For example, in Street in the City of London. 1935, Colchester society used the South Western Exchange Club. 1912 1936 The South Essex Philatelic Society was also represented, by Mr. C. Nissen, at the fourth Congress The Leytonstone society on the borders of East in May, after which this society faded from sight, London was formed in October. possibly a victim of the Great War. 1937 1913 In October, a society was formed in Dovercourt. The earliest known private company society was the Marconi Philatelic Society, founded in May. At 90 1939 years old, it was the oldest surviving Essex society, albeit closed to the general public, when it closed its The outbreak of war led to the curtailment of any doors in 2003. Despite being a private society, on activity that was not considered essential to the war various occasions it has played a very active role in effort. Many philatelic societies closed down at the Essex philately, hosting public exhibitions and county outset or subsequently succumbed, including a society events. at Billericay that had been active in the 1930s. 1916 1942 During that was, a new society emerged in south These dark wartime days saw the formation of the Essex in the form of the Southend-on-Sea & District Ilford & District Philatelic Society. Philatelic Society, founded in September. This was the first town in Essex to have a society. 1943 1919 In May, Forest Philatelic Society came into being, based in Loughton, to incorporate and replace the pre- In the county town, Chelmsford and District Philatelic war Buckhurst Hill Philatelic Society. The latter Society was formed in November. society, of which the inauguration date is not known, had been formed in the 1930s with informal meetings 1927 and had been able to continue meeting through the war years. The earliest recorded exchange visit between societies took place in 1927 when Southend-on-Sea 1944 gave a display at Chelmsford. Organising exchange visits between societies has always a popular part of The war was still in full swing, but post-war philatelic life, and always fraught with problems for the reconstruction was beginning to be addressed in society Secretary – “Will we get a team?”, “How will official circles. The surviving philatelic societies in we get there?”, etc. A not-infrequent concern is “Have Essex were Chelmsford, Colchester, Dovercourt, we both got the same date?”. Today, the AEPS Ilford, Leytonstone, Southend-on-Sea. Combined Programme sorts out such problems at an Early in the year, the idea of a county association early stage, but it was not always so. The Philatelic of philatelic societies was conceived by the Mr. J. B. Societies Year Book for 1935 records Chelmsford Seymour, FRPSL, an Essex philatelist of world-wide expecting a visit from Colchester on 12 November renown. This idea was discussed at length at 1935 and Colchester planning to visit Chelmsford five Leytonstone Library at a "Congress" hosted on 3 June days earlier! by the Leytonstone society with the representatives of the Colchester, Forest, Ilford and Southend-on-Sea 1931 societies. Although the inaugural meeting under that name was not held until 1945, 3 June 1944 was the The Colchester Stamp Society was formed in March day the decision was taken to found the “Association by six persons meeting in a private house. of Essex Philatelic Societies” (AEPS), with these five founder member societies. Three days later, the war took a major turn towards its end, with the Allied “D- Philately In Essex 2019 5 Day” invasion of the European continent, starting in Congresses during the war years. It considered that Normandy. the term “Congress” should be reserved for PCGB The AEPS claims to be the first single-county use, to avoid confusion. The first Annual General federation to be formed in Britain. Meeting of the Association on 17 November rejected The meeting set the pattern for subsequent the request to change the name of the annual event, gatherings in the early years. There was a luncheon but, faced with a threat of resignation by Mr. J.B. (despite rationing and wartime shortages), and an Seymour, this decision was reversed at a special exhibition of members' collections, a talk and display meeting on 5 January 1946. The term “Convention”, by Mr. Frank Godden, a small amount of exploratory commonly used in the USA but, until then, rarely in administrative business. The most important element the UK, was adopted. of the day was the opportunity to meet members of AEPS petitioned the Postmaster-General for a set other societies and to discuss matters of mutual of Victory stamps and an issue followed shortly interest. To quote Mr. R.D. Lee, who was present at afterwards, despite initial apparent reluctance. the meeting, and who has served the AEPS ever since “No longer was any newly formed society on its 1946 own, struggling to make ends meet, to find a speaker, or to arrange a display. Enthusiasm was revived and, The first post-war Philatelic Congress of Great Britain though times were difficult with communications in 1946 had six Essex members compared with three interrupted by war activities, visits between in 1940. Chelmsford, Colchester and Southend-on- neighbouring societies became a reality. Places with Sea were joined by AEPS, Ilford and Leytonstone. a "Morrison Shelter" were in demand for, when the Forest society was initially invited to hold the siren sounded, meetings simply adjourned from round Convention, but declined. Leytonstone society the table to underneath it!” stepped in and agreed to host this second Convention The first Secretary, Mr. J.R. Goodwin, served from at Leytonstone Library, the site of the initial exploratory 1944 to 1951 and was a busy man - He was recorded meeting. Initial publicity was launched in April. A body in 1946 as also being Secretary of both Ilford & District of experience in running events had now been built up P.S.

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