Federation(s): | North East of England Philatelic Association |
Meeting Location: | Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 23 Westgate Road Newcastle NE1 1SE |
Meeting Day(s) and Time: | Meetings are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, September through May inclusive, at 6.45pm (auctions start at 6.30pm). Meetings finish by 9.00pm. |
Secretary name: | Steven B Dixon |
Secretary Contact Number: | 0191 428 2261 |
Secretary email: | steve0408@btinternet.com |
Additional Information: | About the Society The Society became a society in its own right in 1944, when the North of England Philatelic Society became the North of England Philatelic Association. Newcastle hosted the British Philatelic Federation Congress in 1920 and again in 1992. Two members of the Society have been awarded Congress medal and six members have received the ABPS Award of Merit. No fewer than twenty members of the Society have had the honour of being President of NEPA and nine have received NEPA’s Award of Merit for services to philately in the North East. |