\n\u201c!\u2019m so glad you\u2019re keeping this going\u201d. This one of many similar comments at the Nottingham Postcard Fair (plus cigarette cards, ephemera, militaria!) on Saturday. It was apparent that just about everyone there was having a good time, immersed in the fascination and thrill, of collecting. Missing dealers Rod Jewell and Mark Routh were asked after by numerous people (they\u2019re both ok!). But having said that, we could have done with another hundred people! There\u2019s no escaping the fact that putting on fairs is becoming a challenge for organisers, squeezed at one end by increasing costs (particularly of venues \u2013 though Nottingham University have been very good to us) and at the other by reduced attendances of both dealers and the public. So we heard that the next casualty in the postcard stratosphere will be the once-renowned Stockport Town Hall event, which will stage its final event next Saturday. What\u2019s the answer to all this? Only to keep plugging away at enthusing more to come along. Might start a bring-a-mate deal next time? Anyway, Nottingham\u2019s postcard event is very much alive, with next dates at King\u2019s Meadow Campus Saturdays 13th May and 4th November. In the meantime here are a few pics from last Saturday.
\n1.\tMick Liversidge from Easingwold, equally at home at a fair or treading the theatre boards (his Christmas romp was on a train) presides over his classy stock.
\n2.\tPaul Newman was making his debut at the Nottingham fair. He comes all the way from Yeovil! That\u2019s 203 miles away \u2013 but he\u2019s beaten on distance by Mark Bown from Wooler, Northumberland, 206 miles! But Mark has been coming to the Nottingham fair for ever and dislikes missing one!
\n3.\tA nice old couple who just love being at the postcard fair \u2013 and what a presentation!
\n4.\tThis is probably aviation postcard chat between Alan Bower (left) from Huddersfield (that\u2019s near Happy Valley) and Carl McQuaide, the country\u2019s leading expert on this genre of the postcard world.
\n5.\tBarbara Irwin is from Basingstoke, and she and husband Ted always put on a great shop display of postcards and ephemera.
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