009 Society 1973 Documents

[B.Meldon]

Here is a scan of the original 009 Society hand-out produced by Mike Higgins and given out at model railway exhibitions etc. in 1973:
(Some personal details have been removed.)

[B.Meldon]

Here is a scan of a letter from Mike Higgins dated 26/11/73 on 009 society headed paper.
This was sent to Roy Watson who became member No 30.
(Some personal details have been removed.)

Yes, I do have the members list mentioned in this letter.
But as this has all the personal details of the first 20 members addresses I can not post it on here until I have edited it a bit.

[B.Meldon]

Here is the list of the first 20 members of the 009 Society.
I have removed sections of their address.
Mike Higgins was member No1 and his name is not on this list.
There are some on this list that are still members today, and a lot of us will have fond memory of others that have sadly passed away.

[B.Meldon]

Here is a scan of the late Roy Watson's 1973 membership card.
Roy was member No.30.

[Julian Evison]

Brain,

Wow -that is quite a find. I'd not seen the handout or the early address list before.

Thank you for posting (and for being sensitive about publishing full addresses, etc.)

Julian

[MickT]

Here is the list of the first 20 members of the 009 Society.

Thanks for posting this information Brian.  I'm out of date and only have membership info up to 2013. After this date the Society membership list which was previously available on request, appears to have been guarded as if it is a state secret, which is a pity.

However, as far as I am aware, only the following members are still surviving or still members: Membership Numbers 005, 007, 009 and 015. I can't confirm if number 005 is still a member as I don't know the person. I can however confirm that I do know that numbers 007, 009 and 015 are still members, out of the original 20 that Brian listed.

Brian's list omits member number 001. so John, John, Alan and Garry can be identified on the list! The next senior membership number extant as a member on the 2013 list is number 029.

MickT

[B.Meldon]

I also have a later list from the 1980's that does have the membership numbers of most on the 1973 list, or at least enough to work out the rest. This even has my own original number as my membership lapsed for a couple of months in the early 1980's.

[Julian Evison]

I can't confirm if number 005 is still a member as I don't know the person. I can however confirm that I do know that numbers 007, 009 and 015 are still members, out of the original 20 that Brian listed.

Member number 5 was Dr. Jim Ford. Garry Whiting wrote on the forum:

"We are very sad to announce the death on Thursday 16 September 2021 of Dr Jim Ford, ( membership no.5) one of the original first 15 members.....Jim was a medical doctor and lived in Southport where he was also a member of Southport MRC...."

Julian

[MickT]

This even has my own original number as my membership lapsed for a couple of months in the early 1980's.

Same here Brian! I was originally 1102 but lapsed for a year in the early 80's as I was at a BFPO address and the then membership sec could not understand that I was not an overseas member, which required a higher subscripton. When I rejoined the following year my newly allocated membership number was more than double the original one, so we obviously had a "surge" of new members in the early to mid 80's similar in proportion to the one we've had in the past few years!

Mick

[JulienW]

Some of us have kept a continuous membership (No. 1720) since May 1983... ;D

I can't be too smug though as I have probably lapsed in several other areas!  ;)

[Hugh Norwood]

well, it's better than a prolapse....  <grin>

[Alan Feldon]

But I can be smug Julien as my number is lower than yours !

[MickT]

But I can be smug Julien as my number is lower than yours !

As at the AGM and as reported in the current issue of the News, there are 2272 members, so there are 2270 members who are junior to yourself as at this year's AGM Alan, (probably several more by now!)

Mick

[JulienW]

well, it's better than a prolapse....  <grin>

Is that lapsing on a professional basis? :laugh:

[Hugh Norwood]

well, it's better than a prolapse....  <grin>

Is that lapsing on a professional basis? :laugh:

like casually mentioning to a journalist that a client has had their account closed?