It has become tradition during the Summer Recess that a great social meeting takes place every Monday evening at the Great Western pub in Bewdley. It was during one of these evenings it was discovered that three of our members were about to have their 80th birthdays. Excuse for a celebration!

Lorraine and Steve Hancox leapt into action and before we knew it an evening meal for over thirty people was arranged at the Fox Inn, Chaddesley.

It was a great evening enjoyed by all and we are forever grateful to the organisers.

Here are a few pictures of the evening.

The Birthday People

Following on from last year’s presentation which was held in the club room rather than at our Annual Exhibition it was decided that the club room made for a more relaxed and easier venue. So here we are in 2026.

Following the old addage ” If it ain’t broke etc…” the evenings went along the usual lines with drinks and nibbles served up by the always reliable services of Steve Ficken. Certificates and trophies were awarded and it was refreshing to see new names popping up among the recipients.

Duncan put on a slide show of some of the year’s memorable images and the usual banter flowed in abundance.

The Gameson Brothers, Mark and Pauls took the photographs and here are their results.

Here we are again! It doesn’t seem twelve months ago that we were all gathered for the last meeting before the Christmas break.

It has, as usual, been a most enjoyable year at the club thanks to all the effort from the committee members and especially Mark for sourcing so many varied items for the programme.

Our Christmas party was probably one of the best thanks to the Hancox team and the smooth handling of the Fish & Chip supper, Karen’s diabolical quizzes, Steve’s catering and everyone else who gave time and effort to make the evening so enjoyable. Thank you everyone.

Our usual annual photographer has found that he can no longer handle multi tasking i.e. standing, walking and taking pictures but stalwart Ray stepped in with his trusty wireless talking device and provided this picture of the crowded clubroom. Hooray for Ray!

Happy New Year everyone! See you January 5th.

Time again for our Annual Exhibition. This year we have been obliged to vacate our space in Kidderminster Library that we have used for many years.

Presumably through lack of funds the room has become unusable and in a sorry state with the ceiling falling down and the lighting not working. Our efforts to find a suitable venue in Kidderminster failed and so we have moved to The Civic, Stourport. This is a much better venue than the library was with lots of light and no stairs.

We must give our thanks to the great teamwork of those who gave up their time to carry out the installation. Do come along for a visit and make their efforts all the more worthwhile. In the meantime here are a few pictures taken on the day of installation.

Owing to the sad demise of our usual Exhibition Venue in Kidderminster Llibrary we could not combine our Annual Presentation Evening with the Annual Exhibition and therefore, this year, we carried out the presentations in the clubroom. The exhibition this year will be held at The Civic, Stourport. See the poster on the home page.

As it happens, everyone thought that this year was a jollier, more relaxed afair than usual.

Steve Ficken had laid on soft drinks and nibbles and we sat around in a rather random fashion and cheered on this year’s winners in true KCC style.

The surprise of the evening was the gift to the club of brand new print easils supplied by the Gameson brothers Mark and Paul. Everone who has had the task of erecting the old ones will be eternally grateful!

Mark also took on the job of taking a few snaps of the proceedings and here they are…

Congratulations all but, don’t forget, you’ve a new season to work on now starting with the Chairman’s Challenge. Good Luck!

Seems like only 12 months since the last Fun Night!

This year was no different to earlier Fun Nights, we are great supporters of tradition at KCC. The fish and chip supper was Merchant’s usual high standard though this year they slipped up badly by delivering it an hour earlier than requested. No one complained as most hadn’t eaten since lunchtime!

Marion devised another two of her devilish quizzes and Duncan added another that the Comic Book nerds were delighted with but had us others totally perplexed.

The Blu Tack competition was well supported. Mark came first, Lorraine second, and Steve Ficken third.

We were all amazed when the same table won all three quizzes, what a brainy lot!

There was Chistmas themed attire everywhere, Terry Rees not only won the Best Christmas Jumper (?) competition by coming in a reindeer outfit but also took over the official photographer’s role and produced these splendid snaps.

Brian, our much loved Chairman, actually lost his voice whilst announcing the various results etc. No one actually said that was a desirable trait…

Here are a few images…

Although we held our exhibition in the Kidderminster Library as usual this year we were unable to hold our awards evening there. Framing and mounting the prints went well thanks to our band of willing volunteers the display of images looked as good as usual.

This year we held the presentation evening in the clubroom and invited Terry Livesey, an old friend of the club, to choose his favourite print from the exhibition, share his thoughts about it and also talk about some of the other images that impressed him.

Terry chose “Heavy Metal” by Len Harris

Terry gave us an entertaining talk about the various images and we saw the year’s best pictures projected. Steve, as usual, organised the refreshments and, as usual, made a thorough good job of it.

Plenty of time was put aside for social chat and a good time was had by all.

Here’s a few images of the evening… apologies if you’re not featured…

Who provided the scrumptious cakes!!?

Trophies Galore!!

Here’s to Next Season !

Another year has nearly passed and here we are again with the club’s traditional “Fun Night”. This year’s night was dominated mainly by some pretty evil quizzes supplied once again from the anything but evil Marion.

The Festive Jumper Show was well supported as you can see above and we also held the Blu Tack competition while being extra careful not to get the sticky stuff on our newly painted walls. Jill organised a Fish & Chip Supper, delivered over the border from Merchants in Bewdley.

It was, as always, a great opportunity to have a chat and a laugh with fellow members both old and new. Whilst on the subject of new members, it was particularly satisfying to see them winning prizes during the evening.

Here is a collection of pictures of the evening. The photographer apologises to any one he’s missed and pleads old age 🙂

Right click images for full screen view

It’s that time of year again when the Annual Exhibition takes place and we appeal for helpers to get it all organised and ship shape.

We seem to have achieved the organisation part pretty well this year, the selection committee had the images sorted in no time and the actual framing took place so quickly that our tame photographer didn’t get time to record the event for the Blog! No such photo tardiness at the hanging even though we had the job done in what must be a record one hour and ten minutes including time for the obligatory group photo. Many thanks to all who gave up some of their time to help with the framing and mounting.

Awards Night and the Grand Opening

Monday 26th June saw the opening of the 2023 exhibition and was attended by members of the club and their friends and parteners.

Ric Harding came along from the Droitwwich club to give us his opinion of the prints and to choose his favourite as Best in Exhibition. This year that honour was awarded to Stephen Baird Parker for his excellent image “The Birchwood”

Certificates for everyone’s efforts from the season were awarded together with trophies and the evening went very well with Brian’s collection of Photo Books recording the clubs progress over the years attracting much attention.

Here are a few images of the event with apologies to anyone missed by the photographer.

See you all in September!!

Although the weather took a turn for the worse and threw some icy breezes and a fair bit of the white stuff at us we managed to hold the now famous “Fun Night” this year.

The equally famous BluTack competition formed a large part of the evening and there was an enthusiastic number of prints entered with a great variety of subjects and styles on display.

Marion supplied some fiendish quizzes, a best jumper and hat competition had us laughing and we tucked into fish & chips (delivered by Merchants of Bewdley) and mince pies.

It’s fair to say it was the usual enjoyable evening especially as partners and friends came along to join the fun.

Her are a few pictures…

Brian working out the BluTack scores.

Jill was C.O Fish & Chip suppers.

Nev won both the BluTack competition AND Best Outfit !!

Here’s to a Wonderful New Year!