Please kindly note that for details of when Wakefield Philatelic Society meets, whether face-to-face meetings or via Zoom sessions, then please go to WPS Facebook page. You do not have to belong to Facebook to view our posts there:

https://www.facebook.com/wakefieldphilatelicsociety.

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Please note that our venue (for face-to-face meetings) is:

Thornes Juniors Football Club,

Queen's Drive, WF5 9BX

(what3words address: refilled.blaze.hoops)

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Visitors of all philatelic abilities and interests are always welcome to Wakefield Philatelic Society.

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From September 2024 our face-to-face meetings will all be at 2.00pm

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You are welcome to contact Philip for furthet information on: life.draw@btinternet.com or 07805 509469

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Face-to-face meetings will usually be on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of the month (September to July inclusive) and occasionally in August. We will continue to have occasional Zoom sessions, usually on a Monday at 7.00pm.​​

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Wednesday 18th September 2024

1.00pm - WPS Committee

2.00pm – Nigel Grizzard “Bradford: from the West Riding to the Continent & more” and possibly

“The Future of the Stamp Trade”

 

Monday 23rd September 2024

7.00pm – WPS Zoom: Robert McMillan FRPSL “Norwegian Whaling Mail”

 

Wednesday 2nd October 2024

2.00pm – Keith Burton FRPSL entertains

 

Wednesday 16th October 2024

2.00pm –Dr David Hemingway (past Presidents evening) “Penny Red Cancellations”, “Postal History”, “Natural History”

 

Wednesday 6th November 2024

2.00pm – general WPS Members displays, plus mini-auction

 

Wednesday 20th November 2024

2.00pm – Glen Fearons “From Barnsley Archives”

 

Provisional: Monday 25th November 2024 –

7.00pm – WPS Zoom

 

Wednesday 4th December 2024

2.00pm – Trevor Larkin “Textiles: Fibres, Fabrics & Yarns.”

 

Wednesday 18th December2024

2.00pm – Christmass Social & Members displays

 

Wednesday 15th January 2025

1.00pm - WPS Committee

2.00pm – Graham Winters FRPSL “A Good Walk Spoiled”.

 

Provisional: Monday 27th January 2025

7.00pm – WPS Zoom

 

Wednesday 5th February 2025

2.00pm - 2.00pm – general WPS Members displays, plus mini-auction

 

Wednesday 19th February 2025

2.00pm – WPS Competition and 30 Stamp Reverse Treasure Hunt

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Wednesday 5th March 2025 (NB: Ash Wednesday)

2.00pm – Richard Hindle “Hubert Wilkins: an Extraordinary Life”

 

Wednesday 19th March 2025

2.00pm – Barnsley Philatelic Society entertains

(Dinar A, Glenn F, Jill F, Trevor S to give half a round each)

 

Provisional: Monday 31st March 2025 –

7.00pm – WPS Zoom - xxx

 

Wednesday 2nd April  2025

2.00pm – general WPS Members displays: “My Favourite set of Stamps”,  plus Presentation of Cups, and mini-auction

 

Wednesday 16th April  2025

2.00pm – WPS Mini Stamp Fair – how to organise ???

 

Wednesday 7th May 2025

6.30pm – Annual Dinner, possibly at the Weatherby Whaler, Calder Island way, WF2 7AW

 

Provisional: Monday 19th May 2025

7.00pm – WPS Zoom – Edith & Rodney Knight “History of Spain (Part 1, up to 1492)”

 

Wednesday 21st May 2025

1.00pm - WPS Committee

2.00pm -  John Sussex RDP “Small Scottish Islands”

 

Wednesday 4th June 2025 – 2.00pm –

2.00pm - Yvonne Wheatley FRPSL “Czechoslovakia 1918/1919”

and Richard Wheatley FRPSL: “Netherlands East Indies WW1”

 

Wednesday 18th June 2025

2.00pm – WPS AGM

 

Wednesday 2nd July 2025

2.00pm - general WPS Members displays: “Local Postal History”, plus mini-auction

 

Wednesday 16th July 2025

2.00pm – WPS “Our non-philatelic collections”

 

Provisional: Monday 28th July 2025

7.00pm – WPS Zoom - xxx

 

Wednesday 6th August 2025

2.00pm – Robert McMillan FRPSL “Kingston upon Hull Postal History”

 

Visitors of all philatelic abilities and interests are always welcome to Wakefield Philatelic Society (WPS – aka The Stamp and Postcard Club for Wakefield and District), which usually meets on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of most months, at Thornes Juniors Football Club, Queen's Drive, WF5 9BX (what3words address: refilled.blaze.hoops). In addition WPS continues to hold occasional Zoom sessions.

 

If you wish to contact WPS it may be better (more efficient and timely) to email - life.draw@btinternet.com - rather than via Facebook message. I will then pass on your request to any relevant contacts. It may help if you let us know the area in which you live (if not your actual address) and a telephone number, thank you.

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Please note that this syllabus may occasionally be updated if there are changes due to unforeseen circumstances

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BARNSLEY PHILATELIC SOCIETY

You might like to know that (our neighbour) Barnsley Philatelic Society usually meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month (September to July inclusive) at the Friends (Quakers) Meeting House on the corner of Western Street and the Huddersfield (A635) Road, S70 2BP.

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