Chairman’s Evening features ‘Letters from Macclesfield’

For the Chairman’s evening this year we were delighted to welcome Garrie, Alan and Peter, from Macclesfield Philatelic Society to show us their ‘Letters from Macclesfield’ display.

The display has been put together to celebrate their 6oth Anniversary earlier this year, and had been on display at the Macclesfield Silk Museum for two days, as well as being shown again for a joint meeting of the Royal Philatelic Society and The Society of Postal Historians who met in March of this year.

The display was comprised of several frames, all created and mounted by members of the Macclesfield Society and covered the history of postal services in and around Macclesfield from earliest beginnings in the 1600s to present day.

There were separate frames for elements such as the Post Boxes of Macclesfield (all neatly mapped and photographed), inbound mail to Macclesfield from around the world, and a range of other material with something for everyone to enjoy.

The display will be going around to other philatelic societies in the coming months but we are delighted to have been the first local society to have enjoyed the display. The vote of thanks was given by our new Chairman Malcolm Ridsdale and the entire society would like to thank Macclesfield PS for a delightful evening.

As usual, photographs of the event are shown below.