The Next Meeting
Telescope at the Yerkes Observatory, USA
The next Society meeting is scheduled for 19th July 2008, in Hastings.
9am Market open
9.30 Refreshments
10.45 Chairman’s Welcome
11am John & Thelma Burgess
Welcome to Sussex. A set of unique slides showing The Internationals, a group of ramblers enjoying the Sussex countryside in the 1930s.
11.25 Richard Baines
Collecting slides in the 1960s: From a watery disaster in London in 1963 to being saved by the lifeboat at Hastings 45 years later!
11.45 Trevor Beattie and Alice
The Lost South Coast. A tour by lantern around the lost landscape of the south coast.
12.15pm Lunch announcements
2.15 Dr Nick Hiley
No Double Meaning Was Ever Intended: Saucy seaside postcards in the dock in the 1950s
The 1950s saw a sustained campaign against the traditional seaside postcard, as British police and purity campaigners tried to stem the tide of double-entendres. In 1954 Hastings even established its own Censorship Committee to inspect every postcard sold on the seafront. Nick Hiley, Head of the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent, tells the story of the national campaign, based on the Director of Public Prosecutions’ own official archive of saucy cards.
2.35 Ine van Dooren
Harry Furniss in Hastings
Harry Furniss was a notable but neglected illustrator and caricaturist. He travelled around the country presenting his lectures accompanied by magic lantern slides, to a devoted public. He had an interest in cinema which led him to move to New York, returning in 1914 to form his own company, Furniss Films with a studio in Hastings.
With thanks to Screen Archive South East.
3.05 Strawberry Tea
Last minute bargains from the Market
3.50 Bring and Show
4.15 Delia and Peter Gillies
A Selection from the Collection
Our Grand Finale!
4.50 Finish and away
Additonal events will be held on July 20th, including a public show. Details here.
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